Bug 43753

Summary:	Allow verbose output when using systemctl for services start/stop/etc options
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Paulo Castro <pauloedgarcastro>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lennart>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Paulo Castro 2011-12-12 08:20:48 UTC

I don't think this exists or at least I couldn't find it in the systemctl man page.

I just had an issue with starting a service whereas all the output the init script was throwing was being hidden by systemctl.

In despair I had to comment the loading of /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions so that I could run the service via bash -x and have a glimpse of the problem.

I'm not sure if this happened so because of the particular service I was trying to start.

This was the output of the service via systemctl :

[root@host ~]# systemctl start cman.service
Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details.

And cman wasn't really outputting nothing useful in any of the logs in full debug mode.

Regards,


   PECastro

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2012-02-01 21:30:30 UTC

systemd 38 and newer writes all service output of sysv services into the logs. And we also shows this now in "systemctl status". Getting the right output should be obvious now, hence.

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