Re: [herd] Have status display services as a bulleted list.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:
>>
>>> I don't know about you, but I am totally unable to read the
>>> "herd status" line as it exists in the current state.  I mean, I love
>>> sexps, but even I don't like a completely flat and ungreppable list
>>> printed to stdout.
>>
>> Agreed!
>>
>>> *** New output ***
>>>
>>> cwebber@oolong:~/devel/shepherd$ sudo ./herd -s /var/run/shepherd/socket status
>>> Started:
>>>  + file-system-/run/systemd
>>>  + xorg-server
>>>  + file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct
>>>  + file-system-/mnt/debian
>>>  + syslogd
>>>  + term-tty1
>>>  + root-file-system
>>>  + file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio
>>>  + avahi-daemon
>>
>> Works for me!  I’m just wondering if there are ideas we could/should
>> follow more closely the output of ‘systemctl status’.  IIRC, it displays
>> a couple of lines for each service; for instance, we could display the
>> “running” value and dependencies of each service, indented below its
>> name.
>>
>> WDYT?  Would that make sense?
>>
>> Ludo’.
>
> It's a good idea, and I think we should shoot for better output.
> Listing a tree of dependencies is a great idea.
>
> But I'm unlikely to have time to get to it soon.  I think it should be
> on our TODO list, but for now, the preceding patch will still be a nice
> improvement.

You’re right.  Applied with an adjusted test.

Thank you!

Ludo’.