Bad is an unpleasant word, right? “On” or “off” implies some final statement, or “failed” may signal something wrong but at least terminated. But “bad”… uuuhh, blameworthy, guilty, unaccountable, still being around. Ok, before diving into linguistic depression, the change eventually turned out simple and was actually in good faith but, however, produced remarkable irritation. You know, systemctl status {service}
will show an overview of some systemd unit definition with load state, current activity and so on. The load state, in particular, details, in parantheses, into the path of the unit file, the enablement and the vendor enablement preset, respectively. Original systemd units may give a load state as follows:
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/atop.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
However, systemd units, that have just been derived from systemv init scripts, only printed the init script path since lately:
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/sysv-thing)
The new irritating factor now is an extension for those derived systemv init scripts, to also state the enablement, but show up as “bad” for the running enablement for whatever weird reason:
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/sysv-thing; bad; vendor preset: disabled)