[Cialug] The systemd Init System

[David Champion]

Jeffrey is correct, the systemd status commands are usually much more
sparse or cryptic than what I'm used to with service ... status.

Thanks.

-dc

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:06 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, David Champion wrote:
> >
> > > Question: I'm used to being able to type "service named status" for
> > > instance, and it give you some useful information back, like the number
> > of
> > > zones you have, the number of clients connected etc. On a newer box
> > (CentOS
> > > 7) using systemd, I haven't found a good way to get the same type of
> info
> > > back.
> > >
> > > Any pointers on that?
> > >
> > At some point, the old 'service' links disappear [most likely what you
> are
> > experiencing], in which case you have to use:
> >
> >         systemctl status named.service
> >
> > Same info, different environment.
> >
>
> Not exactly, some pre-systemd service scripts returned much more
> information that just basic service status information, named was one that
> did that.  systemctl doesn't do that for you so you need to use the
> "native" command/procedure to get extended status information about a
> service.
>
> --
> Jeff Ollie
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