systemd: how to get current target

[Glenn Holmer]

This page:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd#How_do_I_know_the_current_target.3F

says to use "systemctl get-default", but that's clearly wrong:

[root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl get-default
graphical.target
[root@shoggoth ~]# who -r
         run-level 5  2014-12-24 07:49
[root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl isolate multi-user
[root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl get-default
graphical.target
[root@shoggoth ~]# who -r
         run-level 3  2014-12-24 08:12                   last=5
[root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl default
[root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl get-default
graphical.target
[root@shoggoth ~]# who -r
         run-level 5  2014-12-24 08:12                   last=3
[root@shoggoth ~]#

What's the correct command?

-- 
Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682)
"After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."

[Sérgio Basto]

On Qua, 2014-12-24 at 08:14 -0600, Glenn Holmer wrote: 
>  This page:
>  
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd#How_do_I_know_the_current_target.3F
>  
>  says to use "systemctl get-default", but that's clearly wrong:
>  
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl get-default
>  graphical.target
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# who -r
>           run-level 5  2014-12-24 07:49
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl isolate multi-user
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl get-default
>  graphical.target
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# who -r
>           run-level 3  2014-12-24 08:12                   last=5
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl default
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl get-default
>  graphical.target
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# who -r
>           run-level 5  2014-12-24 08:12                   last=3
>  [root@shoggoth ~]#
>  
>  What's the correct command? 
cd /etc/systemd/system
ll default.target
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Dez 24 15:07 default.target
-> /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target

To change I used :

ln -s /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target default.target -f

ll /lib/systemd/system/*target

-- 
Sérgio M. B.

[Glenn Holmer]

On 12/24/2014 09:09 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
>  cd /etc/systemd/system
>  ll default.target
>  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Dez 24 15:07 default.target
>  -> /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target 
Yeah, I get that this is the default target. What I want to know is,
what's the *current* target, i.e. what's the systemd way of querying
runlevel. I understand that the concept doesn't apply exactly in
systemd, so a better way to ask might be "of those targets which
correspond to runlevels, which is the highest one that's running?"

For example, normally "systemctl list-units --type=target" shows both
multi-user and graphical running, but after "systemctl isolate
multi-user.target", graphical is no longer listed (adding --all shows it
as "inactive").

I suppose you could hack up a script based on the runlevel* symlinks in
/usr/lib/systemd/system, but surely there's a better way?

-- 
Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682)
"After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."

[Dhaval Anjaria]

ls -l /etc/systemd/default.target or something like that should suffice. Or
check journald for the last target loaded. That should also help..
On Dec 24, 2014 7:45 PM, "Glenn Holmer" <shadowm(a)lyonlabs.org&gt; wrote:

>  This page:
>
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd#How_do_I_know_the_current_target.3F
>
>  says to use "systemctl get-default", but that's clearly wrong:
>
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl get-default
>  graphical.target
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# who -r
>           run-level 5  2014-12-24 07:49
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl isolate multi-user
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl get-default
>  graphical.target
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# who -r
>           run-level 3  2014-12-24 08:12                   last=5
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl default
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# systemctl get-default
>  graphical.target
>  [root@shoggoth ~]# who -r
>           run-level 5  2014-12-24 08:12                   last=3
>  [root@shoggoth ~]#
>
>  What's the correct command?
>
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>  "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
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[Kevin Kofler]

Glenn Holmer wrote:
>  I suppose you could hack up a script based on the runlevel* symlinks
> in
>  /usr/lib/systemd/system, but surely there's a better way? 
for i in `seq 2 5` ; do
  systemctl status runlevel$i.target >/dev/null && RUNLEVEL=$i
done
echo $RUNLEVEL

        Kevin Kofler