Re: masked service file

From	Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: masked service file
Date	2021-09-01 21:00 +0200
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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.

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masked service file mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2021-08-31 19:40 +0200
  Re: masked service file john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2021-08-31 19:50 +0200
    Re: masked service file Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 20:50 +0200
      Re: masked service file Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-31 21:00 +0200
        Re: masked service file Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 21:30 +0200
          Re: masked service file Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-01 00:20 +0200
            Re: masked service file Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-01 16:20 +0200
              Re: masked service file Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-01 17:30 +0200
                Re: masked service file Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-09-01 20:00 +0200
                Re: masked service file Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-01 20:10 +0200
                Re: masked service file Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-01 21:00 +0200
                Re: masked service file Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-01 21:20 +0200
                Re: masked service file "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-05 16:00 +0200
                Re: masked service file <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-05 17:10 +0200
                Re: masked service file Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-09-08 18:10 +0200
                Re: masked service file <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-08 18:10 +0200
                Re: masked service file Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-09-02 12:00 +0200
                Re: masked service file Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-02 17:30 +0200
                Re: masked service file Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-02 19:00 +0200
                Re: masked service file Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-03 00:30 +0200
                Re: masked service file Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-03 01:30 +0200

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