F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Andrew McNabb amcnabb at mcnabbs.org
Wed Jul 17 18:00:52 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:14:32PM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> 
> But you've got a point here: I'd prefer for systmectl to avoid
> ellipsization when not on a tty. IIRC, this idea was rejected, because
> it also is confusing when the output changes significantly depending
> on how you use it. Maybe it is time to revisit this decision.

Part of what I was trying to say is that the ellipsization is harmful on
a tty, too.  If the actual unit names are printed without truncation,
then the output can be the same whether on a tty or not.

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