On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 10:21:05AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > Hi, > > systemd has systemd.status_unit_format= / [Manager].StatusUnitFormat= > / -Dstatus-unit-format-default= option to use unit names instead of the > Description in messages on the kernel console and in logs: > > - Jun 20 22:04:48 krowka systemd[1]: Started Rule-based Manager for Device > Events and Files. > + Jun 20 22:04:48 krowka systemd[1]: Started systemd-udevd.service. > > I find this more convenient because it's briefer, so it fits better on > a terminal, but primarily because I can select&paste the unit name for > further lookup. When Description is used, and I'm not familiar with > the unit, I'll often use grep first to figure out what the unit name > actually is. Finally, unit Descriptions are often not very good, and > the name is at least as informative…
IIUC, the descriptions are not translated / localized. So perhaps the unit file names are more meaningful for non-english speakers too ? Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
