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by michaelcampbell 858 days ago
> you have to remember filenames.

You have to remember unit names. They're all just names.
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ecnahc515 858 days ago
Not really, there’s systemctl list-units.
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michaelcampbell 857 days ago
Just like `ls`, or even `ls *.log`.

As I've been trying to allude to, 90% of this is familiarity, not some objective "better".

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pdimitar 853 days ago
No it's not just like it because not all log files live in /var/log so you have to remember to check several locations.

systemd is centralized.

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