along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-->
-<refentry id="loginctl" conditional='ENABLE_LOGIND'>
+<refentry id="loginctl" conditional='ENABLE_LOGIND'
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>loginctl</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term><option>-h</option></term>
- <term><option>--help</option></term>
+ <term><option>--no-legend</option></term>
- <listitem><para>Prints a short help
- text and exits.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--version</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Prints a short version
- string and exits.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--no-pager</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Do not pipe output into a
- pager.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Do not print the legend,
+ i.e. the column headers and
+ the footer.</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
operations.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-H</option></term>
- <term><option>--host</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Execute the operation
- remotely. Specify a hostname, or
- username and hostname separated by <literal>@</literal>,
- to connect to. This will use SSH to
- talk to the remote login manager
- instance.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-M</option></term>
- <term><option>--machine=</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Execute the operation on a
- local container. Specify a container
- name to connect to.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-p</option></term>
<term><option>--property=</option></term>
<listitem><para>When showing
session/user/seat properties, show all
- properties regardless whether they are
+ properties regardless of whether they are
set or not.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<constant>SIGTERM</constant>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-n</option></term>
+ <term><option>--lines=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>When used with
+ <command>user-status</command> and
+ <command>session-status</command>,
+ controls the number of journal lines
+ to show, counting from the most recent
+ ones. Takes a positive integer
+ argument. Defaults to 10.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-o</option></term>
+ <term><option>--output=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>When used with
+ <command>user-status</command> and
+ <command>session-status</command>,
+ controls the formatting of the journal
+ entries that are shown. For the
+ available choices, see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ Defaults to
+ <literal>short</literal>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="host" />
+ <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="machine" />
+
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-pager" />
</variablelist>
<para>The following commands are understood:</para>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>session-status [ID...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>session-status</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Show terse runtime
status information about one or more
- sessions. This function is intended to
- generate human-readable output. If you
- are looking for computer-parsable
- output, use
- <command>show-session</command>
+ sessions, followed by the most recent
+ log data from the journal. This
+ function is intended to generate
+ human-readable output. If you are
+ looking for computer-parsable output,
+ use <command>show-session</command>
instead.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>show-session [ID...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>show-session</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
<listitem><para>Show properties of one
or more sessions or the manager
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>activate [ID...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>activate</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Activate one or more
sessions. This brings one or more
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>lock-session [ID...]</command></term>
- <term><command>unlock-session [ID...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>lock-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>unlock-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Activates/deactivates
the screen lock on one or more
- sessions, if the session supports it.</para></listitem>
+ sessions, if the session supports it.
+ </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<listitem><para>Activates/deactivates
the screen lock on all current
- sessions supporting
- it.</para></listitem>
+ sessions supporting it.
+ </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>terminate-session [ID...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>terminate-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
- <listitem><para>Terminates a
- session. This kills all processes of
- the session and deallocates all
- resources attached to the
- session.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Terminates a session.
+ This kills all processes of the
+ session and deallocates all resources
+ attached to the session.
+ </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>kill-session [ID...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>kill-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Send a signal to one
or more processes of the session. Use
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>user-status [USER...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>user-status</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Show terse runtime
status information about one or more
- logged in users. This function is
- intended to generate human-readable
- output. If you are looking for
- computer-parsable output, use
- <command>show-user</command>
- instead. Users may be specified by
- their usernames or numeric user
- IDs.</para></listitem>
+ logged in users, followed by the most
+ recent log data from the journal. This
+ function is intended to generate
+ human-readable output. If you are
+ looking for computer-parsable output,
+ use <command>show-user</command>
+ instead. Users may be specified by
+ their usernames or numeric user IDs.
+ </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>show-user [USER...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>show-user</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
<listitem><para>Show properties of one
or more users or the manager
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>enable-linger [USER...]</command></term>
- <term><command>disable-linger [USER...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>enable-linger</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>disable-linger</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Enable/disable user
lingering for one or more users. If
enabled for a specific user, a user
- manager is spawned for him/her at
+ manager is spawned for the user at
boot and kept around after
logouts. This allows users who are not
logged in to run long-running
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>terminate-user [USER...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>terminate-user</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Terminates all
sessions of a user. This kills all
processes of all sessions of the user
and deallocates all runtime resources
- attached to the
- user.</para></listitem>
+ attached to the user.
+ </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>kill-user [USER...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>kill-user</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Send a signal to all
processes of a user. Use
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>seat-status [NAME...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>seat-status</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Show terse runtime
status information about one or more
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>show-seat [NAME...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>show-seat</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Show properties of one
or more seats or the manager
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>attach [NAME] [DEVICE...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>attach</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> <replaceable>DEVICE</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Persistently attach
one or more devices to a seat. The
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>terminate-seat [NAME...]</command></term>
+ <term><command>terminate-seat</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
<listitem><para>Terminates all
sessions on a seat. This kills all
- processes of all sessions on a seat and
- deallocates all runtime resources
+ processes of all sessions on the seat
+ and deallocates all runtime resources
attached to them.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
code otherwise.</para>
</refsect1>
- <refsect1>
- <title>Environment</title>
-
- <variablelist class='environment-variables'>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_PAGER</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Pager to use when
- <option>--no-pager</option> is not given;
- overrides <varname>$PAGER</varname>. Setting
- this to an empty string or the value
- <literal>cat</literal> is equivalent to passing
- <option>--no-pager</option>.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </refsect1>
+ <xi:include href="less-variables.xml" />
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
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