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machinectl: show most recent log output in "machinectl status", too
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   along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 -->
 
-<refentry id="machinectl" conditional='ENABLE_MACHINED'>
+<refentry id="machinectl" conditional='ENABLE_MACHINED'
+          xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
 
         <refentryinfo>
                 <title>machinectl</title>
                 <para>The following options are understood:</para>
 
                 <variablelist>
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>-h</option></term>
-                                <term><option>--help</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>-p</option></term>
                                 <term><option>--property=</option></term>
                                 <term><option>-l</option></term>
                                 <term><option>--full</option></term>
 
-                                <listitem><para>Do not ellipsize cgroup
-                                members.</para>
+                                <listitem><para>Do not ellipsize
+                                process tree entries.</para>
                                 </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--no-pager</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Do not pipe output into a
-                                pager.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--no-ask-password</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Do not query the user
-                                for authentication for privileged
-                                operations.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><option>--kill-who=</option></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>When used with
-                                <command>kill-machine</command>,
+                                <command>kill</command>,
                                 choose which processes to kill. Must
                                 be one of <option>leader</option>, or
                                 <option>all</option> to select whether
                                 <term><option>--signal=</option></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>When used with
-                                <command>kill-machine</command> choose
+                                <command>kill</command>, choose
                                 which signal to send to selected
                                 processes. Must be one of the
                                 well-known signal specifiers, such as
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>-H</option></term>
-                                <term><option>--host</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Execute 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 machine manager
-                                instance.</para></listitem>
+                                <term><option>--no-legend</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Do not print the legend,
+                                        i.e. the column headers and the
+                                        footer.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>-P</option></term>
-                                <term><option>--privileged</option></term>
+                                <term><option>--mkdir</option></term>
 
-                                <listitem><para>Acquire privileges via
-                                PolicyKit before executing the
-                                operation.</para></listitem>
+                                <listitem><para>When used with
+                                <command>bind</command> creates the
+                                destination directory before applying
+                                the bind mount.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
+
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>--read-only</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>When used with
+                                <command>bind</command> applies a
+                                read-only bind
+                                mount.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>-n</option></term>
+                                <term><option>--lines=</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>When used with
+                                <command>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>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>status [ID...]</command></term>
+                                <term><command>status</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Show terse runtime
                                 status information about one or more
-                                virtual machines and containers. This
-                                function is intended to generate
-                                human-readable output. If you are
-                                looking for computer-parsable output,
-                                use <command>show</command> instead.
-                                </para></listitem>
+                                virtual machines and containers,
+                                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</command> instead. Note
+                                that the log data shown is reported by
+                                the virtual machine or container
+                                manager, and frequently contains
+                                console output of the machine, but not
+                                necessarily journal contents of the
+                                machine itself.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>show [ID...]</command></term>
+                                <term><command>show</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Show properties of one
                                 or more registered virtual machines or
                                 containers or the manager itself. If
                                 no argument is specified, properties
                                 of the manager will be shown. If an
-                                ID is specified, properties of this
+                                NAME is specified, properties of this
                                 virtual machine or container are
                                 shown. By default, empty properties
                                 are suppressed. Use
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>terminate [ID...]</command></term>
+                                <term><command>login</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Open a terminal login
+                                session to a container. This will
+                                create a TTY connection to a specific
+                                container and asks for the execution of a
+                                getty on it. Note that this is only
+                                supported for containers running
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                                as init system.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
 
-                                <listitem><para>Terminates a virtual
-                                machine or container. This kills all
-                                processes of the virtual machine or
-                                container and deallocates all
-                                resources attached to that
-                                instance.</para></listitem>
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><command>reboot</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Reboot one or more
+                                containers. This will trigger a reboot
+                                by sending SIGINT to the container's
+                                init process, which is roughly
+                                equivalent to pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del on
+                                a non-containerized system, and is
+                                compatible with containers running any
+                                init system.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><command>poweroff</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Power off one or more
+                                containers. This will trigger a reboot
+                                by sending SIGRTMIN+4 to the
+                                container's init process, which causes
+                                systemd-compatible init systems to
+                                shut down cleanly. This operation does
+                                not work on containers that do not run
+                                a
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>-compatible
+                                init system, such as
+                                sysvinit.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>kill [ID...]</command></term>
+                                <term><command>kill</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Send a signal to one
                                 or more processes of the virtual
                                 <option>--signal=</option> to select
                                 the signal to send.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><command>terminate</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Terminates a virtual
+                                machine or container. This kills all
+                                processes of the virtual machine or
+                                container and deallocates all
+                                resources attached to that
+                                instance.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><command>bind</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> <replaceable>PATH</replaceable> [<replaceable>PATH</replaceable>]</term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Bind mounts a
+                                directory from the host into the
+                                specified container. The first
+                                directory argument is the source
+                                directory on the host, the second
+                                directory argument the source
+                                directory on the host. When the latter
+                                is omitted the destination path in the
+                                container is the same as the source
+                                path on the host. When combined with
+                                the <option>--read-only</option>
+                                switch a ready-only bind mount is
+                                created. When combined with the
+                                <option>--mkdir</option> switch the
+                                destination path is first created
+                                before the mount is applied. Note that
+                                this option is currently only
+                                supported for
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                                containers.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><command>copy-to</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> <replaceable>PATH</replaceable> [<replaceable>PATH</replaceable>]</term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Copies files or
+                                directories from the host system into
+                                a running container. Takes a container
+                                name, followed by the source path on
+                                the host and the destination path in
+                                the container. If the destination path
+                                is omitted the same as the source path
+                                is used.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><command>copy-from</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> <replaceable>PATH</replaceable> [<replaceable>PATH</replaceable>]</term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Copies files or
+                                directories from a container into the
+                                host system. Takes a container name,
+                                followed by the source path in the
+                                container the destination path on the
+                                host. If the destination path is
+                                omitted the same as the source path is
+                                used.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
                 </variablelist>
 
         </refsect1>
                 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>
                 <para>
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machined.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-logind.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-nspawn</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                 </para>
         </refsect1>