confused by "inactive dead" syslog.target on fedora 20

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Wed Feb 5 08:33:47 UTC 2014


On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Ed Greshko wrote:

> On 02/05/14 05:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   just digging into systemd (so be prepared for several potentially
> > silly questions), and i was playing with some variations of listing
> > systemctl services, and i ran:
> >
> > # systemctl list-units -t target --all
> >
> > and everything looked fine other than this line:
> >
> > syslog.target          not-found inactive dead   syslog.target
> >
> >   at the moment, syslog is running fine as a *service*, it seems ok
> > ... so what does it mean that "syslog.target" is classified as
> > inactive and dead?
> >
>
> Seems to me like a remnant.
>
> As you can see syslog.target does not exist and doesn't show up when
> you do as suggested.
>
> systemctl list-unit-files -t target
>
> In F18, it did exist....

   ,,, snip ...

so is this worth a bugzilla? it doesn't *hurt* anything, but if it's a
leftover, it's worth cleaning out.

rday

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