F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 07:25:10PM -0500, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:09:19PM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > Yes, this is still the case, that plain 'systemctl' truncates unit
> > names.  It's a tough choice, but in this specific case it's hard to
> > find a format that would work without truncation. There are two fields
> > with potentially very long values (unit name and unit description). We
> > can let the second one flow in the right side, but if we left the first
> > one in full width, on normal terminal width of ~100 columns, even this
> > *first* column would not fit. And the truth is that the units which
> > are usually truncated are the device units (they tend to have the longest
> > names), and they are not the most interesting usually. So in this case
> > truncation makes it much nicer to look at the interesting .service
> > and .target units. Truncation has been removed from a few other places,
> > but in this case it just doesn't seem feasible.
> 
> The "..." in the middle of the line makes the output completely
> unusable.  
That might be a bit of an exagerration, no?

> On my current machine, I see 6 service units whose names are
> middle-truncated (it's not just device units).  The problem is that
> there's no way to scroll or adjust the terminal size to get the full
> output.  I would much rather have the description field completely
> omitted or at least extend off to the right (it's much less essential
> than the service name anyway).
Hey, it's pretty straighforward code in 
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/systemctl/systemctl.c#n314.
If you can design a better way to split available columns, go for it.

Zbyszek
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