[systemd-devel] show journalctl while stopping?

[Michael Chapman]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2020, Roger Pack wrote:
> Forgive me if this is too naive, but would it be possible for
> systemctl to "immediately start outputting logs" (journalctl type
> output) while it is in the middle of running a command?  Ex: while
> running "systemctl stop my_server" it could show the logs so we could
> see what is going on?  I do miss that from the /etc/init.d days and
> feel so blind with systemctl now.

This seems like a reasonably good idea to me, so long as it's behind an 
option (so systemctl remains silent on success by default).

Perhaps open an RFE on GitHub? I can't see anything like this there yet.