Restarting services

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote:

> > 2) "systemctl list-units" doesn't mention colord
>
> it does and "systemctl restart colord.service" works
> like for any other service
>
> [root at rh:~]$ /bin/systemctl --no-pager --full list-units | grep colord
> colord-sane.service
> loaded active running       Daemon for monitoring attached scanners and
> registering them with colord
> colord.service
> loaded active running       Daemon for managing, installing and generating
> color profiles
>

This is what I get:

[poc at bree:~] /bin/systemctl --no-pager --full list-units | grep colord
[poc at bree:~]

However the process exists:

[poc at bree:~] pgrep -fl colord
2214 /usr/libexec/colord

Although it appears to be dead:

[poc at bree:~] systemctl status colord.service
colord.service - Daemon for managing, installing and generating color
profiles
      Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/colord.service; disabled)
      Active: inactive (dead)
      CGroup: name=systemd:/system/colord.service

Note that this after logging out and in again.

So now the questions now are:

1) How do I find out about a service managed by systemd independantly of
whether it is currently running or not?
2) Why does systemd say the service is inactive if the process is running?
(note that I was able to restart it using systemctl and now it does appear
as active).

poc
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