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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 14.04.2016 um 00:46 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 13.04.2016 um 21:45 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
>> 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?
> 
> The tor.service afaics is only used, so you have a
> systemctl restart/reload tor
> shortcut which propagates that request to all instances.
> tor.service in itself does not provide any service.
> 
> 
> So it is useful to have.

I'm not sure. Maybe we can convince upstream that using "status" on a
service which is composed by several sub-services via PartOf [0], also
propagates the status request and merges that into a single output.

Or we add a dedicated key, like PropagatesReloadTo [1], say ProgatesStatusTo

Michael

[0]
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html#PartOf=
[1]
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html#PropagatesReloadTo=
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