configuration items understood in unit
definition files.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--introspect=</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Extract D-Bus
- interface introspection data. This is
- mostly useful at install time
- to generate data suitable for the
- D-Bus interfaces
- repository. Optionally the interface
- name for the introspection data may be
- specified. If omitted, the
- introspection data for all interfaces
- is dumped.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--unit=</option></term>
<listitem><para>Set default unit to
- activate on startup. If not specified
+ activate on startup. If not specified,
defaults to
<filename>default.target</filename>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<listitem><para>Highlight important
log messages. Argument is a boolean
- value. If the argument is omitted it
+ value. If the argument is omitted, it
defaults to
<option>true</option>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<listitem><para>Slice units may be used to
group units which manage system processes
(such as service and scope units) in a
- hierachial tree for resource management
+ hierarchical tree for resource management
purposes. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.slice</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
<filename>multi-user.target</filename> (for limited
console-only boots for use in embedded or server
environments, or similar; a subset of
- graphical.target). However it is at the discretion of
+ graphical.target). However, it is at the discretion of
the administrator to configure it as an alias to any
other target unit. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
<filename>/proc</filename>.</para>
<para>For more information about the concepts and
- ideas behind systemd please refer to the <ulink
+ ideas behind systemd, please refer to the <ulink
url="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html">Original
Design Document</ulink>.</para>
option prefixed with
<literal>rd.</literal> is honored
only in the initial RAM disk (initrd),
- while the one that isn't prefixed only
+ while the one that is not prefixed only
in the main system.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term><varname>systemd.dump_core=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a boolean
- argument. If <option>true</option>
+ argument. If <option>true</option>,
systemd dumps core when it
- crashes. Otherwise no core dump is
+ crashes. Otherwise, no core dump is
created. Defaults to
<option>true</option>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term><varname>systemd.crash_shell=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a boolean
- argument. If <option>true</option>
+ argument. If <option>true</option>,
systemd spawns a shell when it
- crashes. Otherwise no shell is
+ crashes. Otherwise, no shell is
spawned. Defaults to
<option>false</option>, for security
reasons, as the shell is not protected
<term><varname>systemd.confirm_spawn=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a boolean
- argument. If <option>true</option>
+ argument. If <option>true</option>,
asks for confirmation when spawning
processes. Defaults to
<option>false</option>.</para></listitem>
<term><varname>systemd.show_status=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a boolean
- argument. If <option>true</option>
- shows terse service status updates on
- the console during bootup. Defaults to
+ argument or the constant
+ <constant>auto</constant>. If
+ <option>true</option>, shows terse
+ service status updates on the console
+ during bootup.
+ <constant>auto</constant> behaves like
+ <option>false</option> until a service
+ fails or there is a significant delay
+ in boot. Defaults to
<option>true</option>, unless
<option>quiet</option> is passed as
kernel command line option in which
case it defaults to
- <option>false</option>.</para></listitem>
+ <constant>auto</constant>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>systemd.setenv=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a string
- argument in the form
- VARIABLE=VALUE. May be used to set
- environment variables for the init
- process and all its children at boot
- time. May be used more than once to
- set multiple variables. If the equal
- sign and variable are missing it unsets
- an environment variable which might be
- passed in from the initial ram
- disk.</para></listitem>
+ argument in the form VARIABLE=VALUE.
+ May be used to set default environment
+ variables to add to forked child processes.
+ May be used more than once to set multiple
+ variables.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>-b</varname></term>
<term><varname>emergency</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Boot into emergency
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
+ The <ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/">systemd Homepage</ulink>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>locale.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,