On 02/05/14 05:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > just digging into systemd (so be prepared for several potentially > silly questions), and i was playing with some variations of listing > systemctl services, and i ran: > > # systemctl list-units -t target --all > > and everything looked fine other than this line: > > syslog.target not-found inactive dead syslog.target > > at the moment, syslog is running fine as a *service*, it seems ok > ... so what does it mean that "syslog.target" is classified as > inactive and dead? >
Seems to me like a remnant. As you can see syslog.target does not exist and doesn't show up when you do as suggested. systemctl list-unit-files -t target In F18, it did exist.... [egreshko@f18x system]$ uname -a Linux f18x 3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 13 18:56:55 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [egreshko@f18x system]$ locate syslog.target /usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog.target /usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog.target.wants Looking at the F18 stuff..... [egreshko@f18x system]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog.target systemd-201-2.fc18.7.x86_64 [egreshko@f18x system]$ more syslog.target # This file is part of systemd. # # systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This unit file exists only for compatibility with broken unit files # that express hard requirement dependencies on syslog.target (i.e. # invalid usage of a provides-like target). [Unit] Description=Dummy Syslog target for compatibility with broken unit files Documentation=man:systemd.special(7) Documentation=http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/syslog # Avoid that we conflict with shutdown.target, so that we can stay # until the very end and do not cancel shutdown.target if we should # happen to be activated very late. DefaultDependencies=no Notice the Unit "Description". I suppose they fixed the "broken unit files" but some additional cleanup may be needed/coming. -- Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
