[colug-432] systemd dislike

[Zach Villers]

Couple tips;

systemctl has an is-enabled command.

systemctl is-enabled httpd

Using a -l flag on systemctl status gets you more info on what your service
did after you started it

systemctl status -l httpd

Finally, journalctl has the ability to only return entries for a particular
service or timer, etc.

journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=httpd.service

Not advocating for an init system - just a couple of tips. Hth

-Zach

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:40 AM Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Mar 7, 2016, at 00:16, Jacob Ulrich <contact at peachchannel.lol> wrote:
> >
> > Does anybody else dislike systemd with a passion? I ask just because I
> > see a lot of RHEL related talk on this list. Sorry if this is
> > irrelevant. I mostly use GNU/Linux as a hobby.
>
> I'm having a hard time getting used to it.  SysV style init scripts were
> simple and effective.  I know, systemd is more powerful, and the unit files
> are supposed to be easier to deal with.
>
> But instead of
>
> chkconfig --list ntpd
>
> Now it's
>
> systemctl status ntpd - which requires reading through a bunch of output
> to figure out if your ntpd is set to start on boot or not.  Also, no more
> run levels, just a confusing pile of declared dependencies and "targets".
> I must sound really old when I ask what was wrong with my run levels 0 - 6?
>
> If you use the service command, the syntax is the opposite: service ntpd
> status.  I don't know why systemd does it - what seems like - backwards.
>
> Often when a service does not start properly, I don't get any indication.
> Have to systemctl status, and then "journalctl -xn" (no idea what
> journalctl has to do with it) to figure out what went wrong.
>
> It also doesn't help that we have both 'systemctl' and 'sysctl' - each of
> which do completely different things.
>
> To be fair to systemd, I haven't spent much time digging into these
> issues, or why things are they way they are.  I've just been dealing with
> it and grumbling.
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