Re: masked service file
On Wed 01 Sep 2021 at 13:52:21 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 04:06:37PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
> >
> > Do you think your init system has some way to know WHY it was given a
> > command? And that it stores these reasons somewhere, and can cough them
> > up on demand?
>
> Speaking as a professional sysadmin, I would welcome a required
> comment field on many system altering commands, so that a log
> could be kept and spit back on demand.
>
> # service saned status
> saned is not running
> 20210704 14:02:33 user root stopped saned saying "interfering with new printer?"
>
> Yeah, that would be nice.
As a non-professional sysadmin, this "Brian person" is wondering why
the OP's question (clearly relating to saned) is sidelined in favour
of other concerns.
A reminder:
> Why would a service file be masked ?
> Can I find out why it's masked ?
> Can I just unmask it or do I need to find a working service file first?
--
Brian.
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