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) As you can see, it is trimming the output at the end of my terminal window, which I do not care; there are options (-i I think) to make it wrap around, but the line lines 1-9/9 (END) is what is annoying me. That seems to be what I would expect if I piped it to less. I checked a fedora 31 and another centos 8 box and am seeing the same behaviour. Am I missing something?