I decided to check out the new ‘*ctl’ features of RH7 and found a few new things in addition to systemctl and journalctl.
bootctl – Manages the boot loader and firmware. ‘status’ tells the status of the boot loader. On Solaris, you don’t know if the boot loader exists on a mirrored drive so you run the command anyway just in case. This might let you confirm there’s a boot loader on a disk?
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/bootctl.html
hostnamectl – Manages the three hostname bits; pretty, icon, and chassis.
http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html for icon naming conventions.
journalctl – Manages the binary log file.
kdumpctl – Manage kdump? No man page and nothing from a quick google search.
keyctl – Manages various system keys; user and keyrings. Long man page but doesn’t really explain why.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-key-retention/
localectl – manage locales on a system (change keyboard language type for example)
loginctl – manage user logins
machinectl – vm and container manager
pactl – Manage a PulseAudio sound server. 🙂
panelctl – Manage a digital cable box?
pmcollectl – similar to collectl but provides more info (and is written in python instead of perl; wtf?)
systemctl – manages services, similar to svcs and svcadm on Solaris or service/chkconfig on Linux.
systemd-coredumpctl – get coredumps from journeld
systemd-loginctl – seems similar to loginctl
teamctl – An alternative (and supposedly better) way of aggregating interfaces into a single L2 interface.
http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2014/06/23/team-driver/
timedatectl – Manages the date and time and ntp info.
udisksctl – Gets information from disks. List shows the disks, info gives more detailed information about disks.
wdctl – Manage the watchdog status.