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units: rely only on isolate to remove running services when entering rescue/emergency...
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                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--replace</option></term>
+                                <term><option>--fail</option></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>If the requested
                                 operation conflicts with an existing
-                                unfinished operation, replace the
-                                existing operation by the requested
-                                operation. If this is not specified
-                                the requested operation will
-                                fail.</para></listitem>
+                                unfinished operation, fail the
+                                command. If this is not specified the
+                                requested operation will replace the
+                                pending job if
+                                necessary.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 this will also print the current unit
                                 state to STDOUT.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><command>status [NAME...]</command></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Show short status
+                                information about one or more
+                                units. This shows terse runtime
+                                information about
+                                units.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><command>show [NAME...|JOB...]</command></term>
 
-                                <listitem><para>Show information about
+                                <listitem><para>Show properties of
                                 one or more units, jobs or the manager
                                 itself. If no argument is specified
-                                information about the manager will be
+                                properties of the manager will be
                                 shown. If a unit name is specified
-                                information about the unit is shown,
+                                properties of the unit is shown,
                                 and if a job id is specified
-                                information about the job is
+                                properties of the job is
                                 shown.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                         <varlistentry>
                                 unit files and recreate the entire
                                 dependency tree. While the daemon is
                                 reloaded, all sockets systemd listens
-                                on on behalf of user configuration, will
+                                on on behalf of user configuration will
                                 stay accessible.</para> <para>This
                                 command should not be confused with
                                 the <command>load</command> or
                                 <listitem><para>Enter emergency
                                 mode. This is mostly equivalent to
                                 <command>isolate
-                                emergency.service</command> but also
+                                emergency.target</command> but also
                                 prints a wall message to all
                                 users.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>