I was installing dnsmasq and had a silly error in the config file. When I tried to start the service, I got the following error message: [root@clare etc]# service dnsmasq start Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start dnsmasq.service Job failed. See system journal and 'systemctl status' for details. Not knowing systemd very well, I followed the instructions and ran: [root@clare etc]# systemctl status Too few arguments. I found the system journal errors in /var/log/messages I have since learned that I needed to call systemctl status with "systemctl status dnsmasq.service" or "systemctl status -o cat dnsmasq.service" and that the recommended way to access the system log with systemd is to use "journalctl". How about modifying the error message to the following (service name can be picked up from the command line/service redirect): Job failed. See 'journalctl -n 50' and 'systemctl status dnsmasq.service' for details.
Newer versions of systemctl (F18 and newer) actually do include the full command lines to run, including the service name where appropriate. Clsoing.
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