On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 4:21 AM Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > On 2019-03-08, Default User <hunguponcont...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > doofus@doofus:~$ sudo systemctl status > > [sudo] password for doofus: > > doofus > > State: degraded > > Jobs: 0 queued > > Failed: 1 units > > I believe sudo (or root) isn't required for this command (nor is it > needed for some of the other, interrogative systemctl commands further > down, which I've snipped in the interests of brevity). > > Elevated privileges are needed for starting and stopping services, of > course. > > As keystroke frugality is one of the frequently expressed ideals of the > group (though often when other arguments seem unconvincing), if only > for that I thought you'd like to know. > > -- > “Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, > which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a > plain > and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched--love for > instance-- > we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.” - Virginia Woolf, The Waves >
Curt, I often use sudo [command] even when not needed, because the sudo elevated privileges state "times out" after several minutes, reverting to unprivileged user state. So if I need to enter another command with elevated privileges after the elevated privilege state expires, I have to re-enter the password again, instead of just sudo [command]. I guess i'm just lazy.
