Dracut on reboot

Kevin Martin ktmdms at gmail.com
Sun Apr 7 17:13:45 UTC 2013


On 04/07/13 11:57, Richard Vickery wrote:
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> On Apr 7, 2013 7:12 AM, "Junk" <junk at therobinsonfamily.net <mailto:junk at therobinsonfamily.net>> wrote:
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>> On 7 Apr 2013, at 01:22, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us <mailto:joe at zeff.us>> wrote:
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>> > On 04/06/2013 03:47 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
>> >> I have little understanding of what I am looking for. Is there some way
>> >> to call systemctl, get the same information, and paste this information
>> >> here in an email for someone to look at? and perhaps let me know what to
>> >> look for?
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>> > If you're logged in as root, you can redirect the output to a file, like this:
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>> > systemctl status foo.service > foo.txt
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>> > which would put it into /root/foo.txt.  Then, you can copy the contents of the file into your message after you've rebooted
> correctly.
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>> At the risk of being pedantic, that command will put a text file in the current working directory. Which could be anywhere if
> you've done a cd
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>> > systemctl status foo.service > ~/foo.txt
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>> Will always put it into the home directory.  (/root for the root user)
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>> Junk.
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> I believe I have used Linux long enough to be aware of what tilda, the ~, represents.
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But perhaps others reading this thread have not and are not aware of what ~ will do.

Kevin


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