Given that "journalctl -u" exists now there's no need to duplicate this
functionality in systemctl, so let's drop this, especially given that it
always felt a bit awkward to overload "-f" to both --force and --follow,
and to have continues output with a status header for this.
systemctl status -f avahi-daemon
now becomes:
journalctl -fu avahi-daemon
Which is shorter and a lot less redundant.
This adds completion for the new -F, --field flag, but also uses this
option directly from journalctl to complete values for fields which
might be used as filters.
The new 'unique' API allows listing all unique field values that a field
specified by a field name can take in all entries of the journal. This
allows answering queries such as "What units logged to the journal?",
"What hosts have logged into the journal?", "Which boot IDs have logged
into the journal?".
Ultimately this allows implementation of tools similar to lastlog based
on journal data.
Note that listing these field values will not work for journal files
created with older journald, as the field values are not indexed in
older files.
On systemd systems seasoned admins might be surprised to see that the
init scripts and log files are gone. To ease the transition let's place
some README files there, that hopefully help clearing up the situation.
Much like logind has a client in loginctl, and journald in journalctl
introduce timedatectl, to change the system time (incl. RTC), timezones
and related settings.
If a device unit has aliases defined in udev rules, and there are
other units that depend on that alias, as in
BindTo=sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device
then systemd will fail the start the alias, and any dependent units
will time out. See
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52580
This is because unit_add_name() in device_add_escaped_name() will
return EEXIST.
The solution taken here is to call device_update_unit() on the alias
name. Thus if a unit with the alias name already exists, we reuse it;
otherwise a new unit is created. Creating multiple units for a single
device is perhaps suboptimal, but it's consistent with the treatment
of udev symlinks in device_process_new_device().
