systemd: T7356: use short service names to avoid truncation #959
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The issue ONLY appears on small terminals where systemd automatically truncates the lines to match the terminal width - so far so good. The BUG is, if truncation happens in the service name which is BOLD you're pretty much screwed, as truncation will not reset the color. We can set StatusUnitFormat=description in /etc/systemd/system.conf which will not print the service long description to avoid truncation making the boot a little less verbose. This actually restores the behavior of VyOS 1.3
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By thinking about the issue again in another context I found the root cause - systemd. The issue ONLY appears on small terminals where systemd automatically truncates the lines to match the terminal width - so far so good. The BUG is, if truncation happens in the service name which is BOLD you're pretty much screwed, as truncation will not reset the color.
We can set
StatusUnitFormat=namein/etc/systemd/system.confwhich will not print the service long description to avoid truncation making the boot a little less verbose.This is back to the roots - VyOS 1.3 only showed the service description but not the service name during system boot.
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-system.conf.html#StatusUnitFormat=
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