| Summary: | RFE: systemctl could be verbose while starting/restarting a service | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Pavan <pbhat> |
| Component: | systemd | Assignee: | systemd-maint |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 23 | CC: | johannbg, lnykryn, msekleta, muadda, sdharane, s, systemd-maint, zbyszek |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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| Last Closed: | 2016-05-02 12:11:19 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
systemctl follows the general unix principle of silent success, and doesn't print anything unless there was a problem. In addition, operations like start and restart are asynchronous (depending on the unit type). There have been various requests to add monitoring, [1] is currently open upstream. I'll close this, because it's a non trivial issue that should be implemented upstream. Nobody is working on that currently, and an (external) patch would be very welcome. [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1287 |
Description of problem: While restarting a service, if there is a error/exception thrown while stopping it, and start up is clean, the user is left to wonder if the service restart was successful indeed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 23 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Restart polkit service Additional info: ### As seen below, restarting polkit threw some exceptions onto the screen and i was wondering if the service restart was successful. I felt it would be better to have a message like service start up successful. [root@dhcp35-202 ~]# systemctl restart polkit PolicyKit daemon disconnected from the bus. We are no longer a registered authentication agent. [root@dhcp35-202 ~]# [root@dhcp35-202 ~]# systemctl status polkit ● polkit.service - Authorization Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2016-05-02 09:02:42 IST; 1h 5min ago Docs: man:polkit(8) Main PID: 1082 (polkitd) CGroup: /system.slice/polkit.service └─1082 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug ... [root@dhcp35-202 ~]# I tried searching why systemctl restart/start is made quiet, could not find any docs or any other previous enancement requests. Please advice.