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cbowdon / daemons.el

An Emacs UI for managing init system services
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Handle templated systemd services #2

Closed Stebalien closed 1 year ago

Stebalien commented 6 years ago

Currently, services-mode displays the template but not instantiated templated services. For example, it lists getty@ but not getty@tty1.

Also, hitting RET on a template doesn't do anything useful (it opens a buffer that displays "Failed to get properties: Unit name thing@.service is neither a valid invocation ID nor unit name.").

I don't have any strong opinons on how these services should be handled, but they should be handled somehow (e.g., being able to stop getty@ttyN.service would be nice).

(Also, awesome project! I've been looking for something like this for a while. I currently have a set of ivy commands but this is much nicer).

cbowdon commented 6 years ago

Thanks for giving this a try and for the kind words!

I'll see what I can do about template services, the current behaviour is indeed a bit rubbish. Ideally there would be some systemctl command I can run that shows these too. (At the moment the list is based around list-unit-files).

Stebalien commented 6 years ago

Take a look at the systemd dbus interface and the dbus emacs package. Emacs has a nice dbus library so, personally, I find it a lot more usable than parsing the output of systemctl.

cbowdon commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/cbowdon/daemons.el/commit/285989cd5aea081bcfd917125f4e60de3356ef25 is not a solution btw, just a placeholder. :-)

cbowdon commented 5 years ago

Sorry, no update on this as I don't have the time right now. A PR would of course be welcome.