Karl Vogel <voge...@pobox.com> wrote: > Removing the --quiet flag and using something like safesys() would: > > * let systemctl write something (hopefully an error message), > * show exactly what arguments are being passed to it, and > * show its exit value.
Your safesys includes basically exactly the code suggested in perldoc system so that's good. I believe systemctl prints errors regardless of the presence of --quiet so removing it may not be necessary, but can't do any harm.
