Lennart PoetteringMay 21, 2025

It's that time again! The systemd v258 release is coming closer. Let's restart the "what's new" series of posts for this iteration! Hence:

1️⃣ Here's the 1st post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v258 release of systemd. #systemd258

As most of you probably know "systemctl start" is how you manually start a systemd unit. Starting a unit can fail, and systemd tracks that for you and tells you this. When you encounter such a failure the next thing you'd typically do…

Show threadLennart PoetteringMay 21, 2025

…is check the logs for the unit, i.e. run "journalctl -u …" on the unit.

With v258 there's now a combined way to do this. If you add the -v switch to your "systemctl start" invocation, "verbose" mode will be invoked, which means the logs will displayed "live" covering the time span when the start operation is started until the start operation completed.

This has been a much requested feature – I figure some of you probably even looked for this feature personally already.

Show threadMike [SEC=OFFICIAL]May 22, 2025
@pid_eins can this be used in conjunction with "enable --now"?
Show threadLennart Poettering
@mike yeah, should just work.
May 22, 2025 at 7:52amWeb