<para>systemd is a system and session manager for
Linux operating systems. When run as first process on
- boot (as PID 1) it may act as init system that brings
- up and maintains userspace.</para>
+ boot (as PID 1), it acts as init system that brings
+ up and maintains userspace services.</para>
- <para>For compatibility with SysV if systemd is called
+ <para>For compatibility with SysV, if systemd is called
as <command>init</command> and a PID that is not
- 1 it will execute <command>telinit</command> and pass
+ 1, it will execute <command>telinit</command> and pass
all command line arguments unmodified. That means
<command>init</command> and <command>telinit</command>
are mostly equivalent when invoked from normal login sessions. See
D-Bus interfaces
repository. Optionally the interface
name for the introspection data may be
- specified. If omitted the
+ specified. If omitted, the
introspection data for all interfaces
is dumped.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
--variable=systemdsystemconfdir</command>
returns the path of the system
configuration directory. Packages
- should alter this directory only with
- the
+ should alter the content of these directories
+ only with the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-install</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
tool.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
SysV init script directory varies
between distributions. If systemd
cannot find a native unit file for a
- requested service it will look for a
+ requested service, it will look for a
SysV init script of the same name
(with the
<filename>.service</filename> suffix