daemons.el Handle templated systemd services

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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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).

Feb 18 '18 00:02 Stebalien

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).

Feb 18 '18 07:02 cbowdon

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.

Feb 18 '18 15:02 Stebalien

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

Feb 20 '18 13:02 cbowdon

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

Dec 15 '18 12:12 cbowdon