systemctl: suppress errors with "show" for nonexistent units and properties

Show is documented to be program-parseable, and printing the warning about
about a non-existent unit, while useful for humans, broke a lot of scripts.
Restore previous behaviour of returning success and printing empty or useless
stuff for units which do not exist, and printing empty values for properties
which do not exists.

With SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug, hints are printed, but the return value is
still 0.

This undoes parts of e33a06a and 3dced37b7 and fixes #3856.

We might consider adding an explicit switch to fail on missing units/properties
(e.g. --ensure-exists or similar), and make -P foobar equivalent to
--ensure-exists --property=foobar.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/systemctl/systemctl.c b/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
index 02224896ff..5337561664 100644
--- a/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
+++ b/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
@@ -4695,12 +4695,14 @@ static int show_one(
                         return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to map properties: %s", bus_error_message(&error, r));
 
                 if (streq_ptr(info.load_state, "not-found") && streq_ptr(info.active_state, "inactive")) {
-                        log_error("Unit %s could not be found.", unit);
+                        log_full(streq(verb, "status") ? LOG_ERR : LOG_DEBUG,
+                                 "Unit %s could not be found.", unit);
 
                         if (streq(verb, "status"))
                                 return EXIT_PROGRAM_OR_SERVICES_STATUS_UNKNOWN;
 
-                        return -ENOENT;
+                        if (!streq(verb, "show"))
+                                return -ENOENT;
                 }
 
                 r = sd_bus_message_rewind(reply, true);
@@ -4765,10 +4767,11 @@ static int show_one(
         r = 0;
         if (show_properties) {
                 char **pp;
+                int not_found_level = streq(verb, "show") ? LOG_DEBUG : LOG_WARNING;
 
                 STRV_FOREACH(pp, arg_properties)
                         if (!set_contains(found_properties, *pp)) {
-                                log_warning("Property %s does not exist.", *pp);
+                                log_full(not_found_level, "Property %s does not exist.", *pp);
                                 r = -ENXIO;
                         }