Re: What is this gibberish?

Friday, 2 February 2018



On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 07:31:03AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
...
   Running scriptlet: firefox-58.0.1-1.fc27.x86_64                    
    18/18 
   Running scriptlet: firefox-58.0-4.fc27.x86_64                           18/18 
 Running as unit: run-r1880116b569f49288e6d0da0c5832367.service
 Running as unit: run-r329e01978cfe43258a05456898834edb.service
   Verifying        : GraphicsMagick-1.3.28-1.fc27.x86_64                   1/18 
   Verifying        : GraphicsMagick-c++-1.3.28-1.fc27.x86_64               2/18 
 ...
 Running as unit? Huh? 
I don't know what exactly is going on, or why the unit has such a
strange name, but a "unit" is systemd-ese to describe all of the
various individual things it can work with -- services, devices, mount
points, sockets, etc. See `man systemd.unit`.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader