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Bug 905612 - systemd: Add sctl file link
Summary: systemd: Add sctl file link
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: systemd
Version: 7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: systemd-maint
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 908214 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-01-29 18:28 UTC by Prarit Bhargava
Modified: 2013-02-12 15:22 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-02-12 15:22:29 UTC
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Description Prarit Bhargava 2013-01-29 18:28:03 UTC 
Description of problem:  I'm very lazy and typing systemctl is hurting my poor little fingers :)  How about adding a 

ln -sf /usr/bin/sctl /usr/bin/systemctl

AFAICT there isn't a */sctl.

Low priority but it should be easy to do and would a nice-to-have :)

P.
Comment 2 Michal Schmidt 2013-01-30 11:48:04 UTC 
I'd go straight for "sc" :-)

"repoquery -f \*bin/sc" finds nothing.
Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2013-01-30 13:04:19 UTC 
$ echo 'alias sc=systemctl' >> .bashrc
or
# echo 'alias sc=systemctl' >> /etc/bashrc

Problem solved...
Comment 4 Prarit Bhargava 2013-01-30 16:27:29 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> $ echo 'alias sc=systemctl' >> .bashrc
> or
> # echo 'alias sc=systemctl' >> /etc/bashrc
> 
> Problem solved...

Heh :)

I agree with you on that, BUT ... there were a few people who pointed out (on memo-list IIRC) that systemctl was a lot to type in ... so I'm proposing adding something shorter *while the namespace is available*,

ie) yum whatprovides */sctl doesn't yeild any results.

and since other people want something shorter, why not just add it to the package?

FWIW, I've already done 'alias sctl=/usr/bin/systemctl' on my fedora boxes.  But since others mentioned it being a nuisance ;), I'm hoping for something more 'global' to help them out too.

P.
Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2013-02-05 19:45:01 UTC 
Hm, I'd be a little torn here - if we want a global alias, why not just rename the upstream command? Having a RH-specific alias doesn't make much sense here.
Comment 6 Prarit Bhargava 2013-02-05 23:51:18 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Hm, I'd be a little torn here - if we want a global alias, why not just
> rename the upstream command? Having a RH-specific alias doesn't make much
> sense here.

I'm sorry -- I didn't mean to imply that we would diverge from upstream.  I opened this BZ to get the attention of the RHEL maintainers who would push it upstream.  FWIW, that's the way we do it in kernel land and I guess I assumed that was the way we do it everywhere else ...

P.
Comment 7 Michal Schmidt 2013-02-06 13:53:01 UTC 
We've just received a similar RFE for Fedora: bug 908212
Comment 8 Michal Schmidt 2013-02-06 15:26:05 UTC 
*** Bug 908214 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Lennart Poettering 2013-02-12 15:22:29 UTC 
If people want to define local aliases for systemctl, but I am pretty sure we should not push redundancies like this from upstream, and we really should avoid adding this in downstream too in order to not allow people to write scripts that are not portable.

So, I am pretty strongly against this. Closing.
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