Re: confused by "inactive dead" syslog.target on fedora 20
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....
[egreshko@f18x system]$ uname -a
Linux f18x 3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 13 18:56:55 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
GNU/Linux
[egreshko@f18x system]$ locate syslog.target
/usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog.target
/usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog.target.wants
Looking at the F18 stuff.....
[egreshko@f18x system]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog.target
systemd-201-2.fc18.7.x86_64
[egreshko@f18x system]$ more syslog.target
# This file is part of systemd.
#
# systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
# This unit file exists only for compatibility with broken unit files
# that express hard requirement dependencies on syslog.target (i.e.
# invalid usage of a provides-like target).
[Unit]
Description=Dummy Syslog target for compatibility with broken unit files
Documentation=man:systemd.special(7)
Documentation=http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/syslog
# Avoid that we conflict with shutdown.target, so that we can stay
# until the very end and do not cancel shutdown.target if we should
# happen to be activated very late.
DefaultDependencies=no
Notice the Unit "Description". I suppose they fixed the "broken unit
files" but some additional cleanup may be needed/coming.
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