Proposed F19 Feature: systemd features

[Bill Nottingham]

Colin Walters (walters at verbum.org) said: 
> On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 14:30 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> > This is interesting, in that it's a feature that's occasionally requested
> > by various users and administrators. However, this is rather limited in
> > that only systemd stuff is using it now, and it's tied to the journal API.
> 
> Actually, we're using it in GNOME too:
> 
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-session/commit/?id=9ec4deede968ad55d18340109c5aa9f6416de13d

Looking at this in the current implemenation...

I understand that this doesn't work unless everything is documented. But...

Jan 30 22:07:01 nostromo.devel.redhat.com systemd[1]: Starting Sendmail Mail Transport Client...
-- Subject: Unit sm-client.service has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- Documentation:
-- http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog/7d4958e842da4a758f6c1cdc7b36dcc5
-- 
-- Unit sm-client.service has begun starting up.

... this is a really verbose way of adding no additional information.
Similar example here:

Jan 31 09:22:15 nostromo.devel.redhat.com systemd-sleep[4298]: System
resumed.
-- Subject: System sleep state suspend left
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- Documentation:
-- http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog/8811e6df2a8e40f58a94cea26f8ebf14
-- 
-- The system has now left the suspend sleep state.


Jan 31 09:22:15 nostromo.devel.redhat.com systemd[1]: Time has been changed
-- Subject: Time change
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- Documentation:
-- http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog/c7a787079b354eaaa9e77b371893cd27
-- 
-- The system clock has been changed to REALTIME microseconds after January
-- 1st, 1970.

A substitution bug! (Unless it's really supposed to reference a
meta-variable that isn't part of the message).

Bill