[HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Jul 23 01:01:10 UTC 2010


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On 07/22/2010 05:54 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> So, "show" is very verbose. On the other hand "status" is pretty
> short. It only shows runtime information and that in a hightly reduced
> way. For example fields are suppressed depending on the state of the
> unit and other fields are shown, and then shows the process tree for
> this. It also ellipsizes and aligns the output, and applies coloring (in
> case the unit is in some 'maintenance' state, i.e. crashed, exited with
> non-zero exit code, timed out, yadda yadda).
> 
> I think the differences between the two commands are sufficiently big to
> warrant the two seperate commands.

In this case, I'd consider using "describe".  Describe sounds quite a
bit more like a full listing of something, rather than a quick status.

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Jesse Keating
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