On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:59:43PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I notice that when I run > # systemctl restart sendmail.service > I get no OK message on my Fedora-20 laptop, > as I do when I run > # service sendmail restart > on my CentOS server. > > This seems a little surprising to me. > Is there some setting I could add to get confirmation? > (I know I could run "systemctl status ...".) > Would I get a message if the restart failed? You get a message if it fails. Try: # systemctl start foo.service I think the present behaviour is the classic *nix dictum: notify only when something unexpected happens. Since you asked for a restart, it notifies only when it fails. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org