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24 <refentry id="systemd-notify"
25 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
28 <title>systemd-notify</title>
29 <productname>systemd</productname>
33 <contrib>Developer</contrib>
34 <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
35 <surname>Poettering</surname>
36 <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
42 <refentrytitle>systemd-notify</refentrytitle>
43 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
47 <refname>systemd-notify</refname>
48 <refpurpose>Notify service manager about start-up completion and other daemon status changes</refpurpose>
53 <command>systemd-notify <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">VARIABLE=VALUE</arg></command>
58 <title>Description</title>
60 <para><command>systemd-notify</command> may be called by daemon
61 scripts to notify the init system about status changes. It can be
62 used to send arbitrary information, encoded in an
63 environment-block-like list of strings. Most importantly it can be
64 used for start-up completion notification.</para>
66 <para>This is mostly just a wrapper around
67 <function>sd_notify()</function> and makes this functionality
68 available to shell scripts. For details see
69 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
72 <para>The command line may carry a list of environment variables
73 to send as part of the status update.</para>
75 <para>Note that systemd will refuse reception of status updates
76 from this command unless <varname>NotifyAccess=all</varname> is
77 set for the service unit this command is called from.</para>
82 <title>Options</title>
84 <para>The following options are understood:</para>
88 <term><option>--ready</option></term>
90 <listitem><para>Inform the init system about service start-up
91 completion. This is equivalent to <command>systemd-notify
92 READY=1</command>. For details about the semantics of this
94 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
98 <term><option>--pid=</option></term>
100 <listitem><para>Inform the init system about the main PID of
101 the daemon. Takes a PID as argument. If the argument is
102 omitted, the PID of the process that invoked
103 <command>systemd-notify</command> is used. This is equivalent
104 to <command>systemd-notify MAINPID=$PID</command>. For details
105 about the semantics of this option see
106 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
110 <term><option>--status=</option></term>
112 <listitem><para>Send a free-form status string for the daemon
113 to the init systemd. This option takes the status string as
114 argument. This is equivalent to <command>systemd-notify
115 STATUS=...</command>. For details about the semantics of this
117 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
121 <term><option>--booted</option></term>
123 <listitem><para>Returns 0 if the system was booted up with
124 systemd, non-zero otherwise. If this option is passed, no
125 message is sent. This option is hence unrelated to the other
126 options. For details about the semantics of this option, see
127 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_booted</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
130 <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
131 <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
137 <title>Exit status</title>
139 <para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code
144 <title>Example</title>
147 <title>Start-up Notification and Status Updates</title>
149 <para>A simple shell daemon that sends start-up notifications
150 after having set up its communication channel. During runtime it
151 sends further status updates to the init system:</para>
153 <programlisting>#!/bin/bash
156 systemd-notify --ready --status="Waiting for data..."
159 read a < /tmp/waldo
160 systemd-notify --status="Processing $a"
162 # Do something with $a ...
164 systemd-notify --status="Waiting for data..."
165 done</programlisting>
170 <title>See Also</title>
172 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
173 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
174 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
175 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
176 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_booted</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>