On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 11:11, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com> wrote: > > Comparing the output of systemctl between centos 7 and 8: > > [root at mail ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release > CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core) > [root at mail ~]# systemctl status firewalld > ● firewalld.service - firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service; enabled; > vendor preset: enabled) > Active: active (running) since Fri 2019-10-25 00:24:24 UTC; 1 > months 19 days ago > Docs: man:firewalld(1) > Main PID: 6578 (firewalld) > CGroup: /system.slice/firewalld.service > └─6578 /usr/bin/python2 -Es /usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork --nopid > > Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output > is incomplete or unavailable. > [root at mail ~]# > > So far so good. Don't know why it is complaining about log being > rotated but output looks readable. Now, let's grab a centos8 box: > > [raub at vmhost2 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release > CentOS Linux release 8.0.1905 (Core) > [raub at vmhost2 ~]$ systemctl status firewalld > ● firewalld.service - firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service; enabled; vendor p> > Active: active (running) since Tue 2019-12-10 20:10:20 EST; 2 days ago > Docs: man:firewalld(1) > Main PID: 1031 (firewalld) > Tasks: 2 (limit: 26213) > Memory: 33.5M > CGroup: /system.slice/firewalld.service > └─1031 /usr/libexec/platform-python -s /usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork > > lines 1-9/9 (END) > It seems this became the default at some point. systemctl -l --no-pager is the way to get it without that. The whole does it use a pager, does it ellipse, etc has been a long fight where various people complain enough to get it one way or another. It usually goes with the group that complains the nicest versus the ones who complain the worst :). -- Stephen J Smoogen.