On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:49:50AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Dave Sherohman <d...@sherohman.org> wrote: > > Also, side question: I'm also manually running `systemctl enable > > apache2` after upgrading. > > You shouldn't need to do this, the maintainer scripts in the packages > will do this for you during the upgrade. > > *If* you need to do this to get a service started automatically during > boot, then something is wrong with your system.
I've been doing it more just to be certain it was enabled, since I wasn't sure how to tell if it was already enabled or not. It probably wasn't actually needed. > > How can you tell whether something is enabled or not in systemd? > > `systemctl status` will tell you whether it's currently running or > > not, but I can't find any indication of enabled/ disabled in its > > output. > > ,---- > | # systemctl status ssh.service > | ● ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server > | Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ssh.service; enabled) > | Active: active (running) since Tue 2017-08-22 11:36:46 CEST; 11min ago > | Main PID: 812 (sshd) > | CGroup: /system.slice/ssh.service > | └─812 /usr/sbin/sshd -D > `---- > > See the "enabled" at the end of the line starting with "Loaded:"? ... Well, that's embarrassing. How did I manage to never notice that in all the times I looked for it? Thanks! -- Dave Sherohman
