On Wed 01 Sep 2021 at 13:52:21 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 04:06:37PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > > > > Do you think your init system has some way to know WHY it was given a > > command? And that it stores these reasons somewhere, and can cough them > > up on demand? > > Speaking as a professional sysadmin, I would welcome a required > comment field on many system altering commands, so that a log > could be kept and spit back on demand. > > # service saned status > saned is not running > 20210704 14:02:33 user root stopped saned saying "interfering with new > printer?" > > Yeah, that would be nice.
As a non-professional sysadmin, this "Brian person" is wondering why the OP's question (clearly relating to saned) is sidelined in favour of other concerns. A reminder: > Why would a service file be masked ? > Can I find out why it's masked ? > Can I just unmask it or do I need to find a working service file first? -- Brian.
