replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 09.10.12 11:30, Matthew Miller (mattdm at fedoraproject.org) wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 05:24:42PM +0200, Richard Marko wrote:
> > > Compared to the other things I mentioned this is less important (because
> > > hey, sysadmins can learn new ways!), but I wanted to elaborate on where this
> > > is coming from.
> > +1. For example swapping action and name parameters for systemctl
> > compared to service calls is just annoying.
> 
> Yes. Again, you're not the first person I've heard this from. Likewise,
> needing to fill out the .service extension. Both make a certain logical
> sense from a design point of view, but they're not putting the user first.

Note that in F18 we will append ".service" if a unit name otherwise
makes no sense.

In fact, there are a number of other little gimmicks in there:

"systemctl status foobar" is equivalent to "systemctl status foobar.service"
"systemctl status /dev/sda" is equivalent to "systemctl status dev-sda.device"
"systemctl status /home" is equivalent to "systemctl status home.mount"
"systemctl status dödel.service" is equivalent to "systemctl status d\xc3\xb6del.service"

Or with other words: we now have rules to qualify strings that otherwise
make no sense or are invalid with a very minimal, simple and static logic.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.