Bug#816391: tor: "systemctl status tor" does not provide useful output

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2016-04-12 18:57:06 -0400, Michael Biebl wrote:
> I'm missing a bit of context here.
> But if you have templated services and you want to list the status for
> all of them, you can use
> systemctl status tor@*.service
>
> Is this is what you are looking for?

at the moment, i see this:

0 dkg at alice:~$ systemctl status tor
● tor.service - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/tor.service; enabled; vendor preset: enab
   Active: active (exited) since Sat 2016-04-09 14:32:21 EDT; 4 days ago
 Main PID: 1152 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/tor.service

Apr 09 14:32:21 alice systemd[1]: Starting Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (
Apr 09 14:32:21 alice systemd[1]: Started Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (m
0 dkg at alice:~$ 

but this says nothing about any of the actual running tor services.

is there a reason to have a "tor.service" that is distinct from the
tor@*.service files?  if not, maybe we could get rid of it entirely?

If there is a reason to have it, how can we avoid having "systemctl
status tor" mask the statuses of the actual running (or failing)
services?

              --dkg