services and systemd in F16

[Nils Philippsen]

On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 17:55 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 31.08.11 17:01, Nils Philippsen (nils at redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> > What's missing is a way to enable/disable/monitor enablement of a
> > systemd/SysV service, partly because systemd doesn't expose this via its
> > dbus interface (which the privileged s-c-services mechanism uses). I'll
> > probably make it check this when a service is selected, but I'd really
> > like something (dbus signals?) which I could monitor for instantaneous
> > updates (Lennart, pretty please?). So much to do and so few round
> > tuits :-).
> 
> We actually support this for quite some time now in F16. You can get a
> list of all unit files that are installed with their enablement status,
> and you get notifications if their state changes. You have bus calls to
> enable/disable/link/mask/unmask units files. So it should all be there.
> 
> The bus interfaces are not really documented very well, but it's quite
> straight-forward I think and fully introspectable. If you have
> questions, please ping me.

Cool. I guess I'll use that if available and fall back to running
systemctl is-enabled/enable/disable if not.

Thanks,
Nils
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