Nick Bright wrote:
On 11/17/2015 8:18 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
This behaviour is congruent with SELinux. One utility adjusts the permanent configuration, the one that will be applied at startup. Another changes the current running environment without altering the startup config. From a sysadmin point of view this is desirable since changes to a running system are often performed for empirical testing. Leaving ephemeral state changes permanently fixed in the startup config could, and almost certainly would eventually, lead to serious problem during a reboot. Likewise, immediately introducing a state change to a running system when reconfiguring system startup options is just begging for an operations incident report. It may not be intuitive to some but it is certainly the logical way of handling this.
I certainly don't disagree with this behavior.
What I disagree with is documented commands _*not working and failing silently*_.
I agree, and it seems to be the way systemd works, as a theme, as it were. I restart a service... and it tells me *nothing* at all. I have to run a second command, to ask the status. I've no idea why it's "bad form" to tell me progress, and final result. You'd think they were an old New Englander.....
mark, ayu'