along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-->
-<refentry id="systemctl">
+<refentry id="systemctl"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>systemctl</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>-t</option></term>
<term><option>--type=</option></term>
<term><option>--before</option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Show which units are started after or before
- with <command>list-dependencies</command>, respectively.
+ <para>Show after (before) which units the specified unit is started
+ with <command>list-dependencies</command>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--no-pager</option></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Do not pipe output into a pager.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--system</option></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Talk to the systemd system manager. (Default)</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--user</option></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Talk to the systemd manager of the calling
- user.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="user" />
+ <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="system" />
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--no-wall</option></term>
</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 systemd
- 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>-n</option></term>
<term><option>--lines=</option></term>
</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>
</refsect1>
[::]:22 sshd.socket sshd.service
kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
-5 sockets listed.
- </programlisting>
+5 sockets listed.</programlisting>
Note: because the addresses might contains spaces, this output
is not suitable for programmatic consumption.
</para>
failed state usually are not loaded, and would not be
matched by any pattern. In addition, in case of
instantiated units, systemd is often unaware of the
- instance name until the instance has been started. Therefore
+ instance name until the instance has been started. Therefore,
using glob patterns with <command>start</command>
has limited usefulness.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Check whether any of the specified units are active
- (i.e. running). Returns an exit code 0 if at least one is
- active, or non-zero otherwise. Unless <option>--quiet</option>
- is specified, this will also print the current unit state to
- STDOUT.</para>
+ (i.e. running). Returns an exit code
+ <constant>0</constant> if at least one is active, or
+ non-zero otherwise. Unless <option>--quiet</option> is
+ specified, this will also print the current unit state to
+ standard output.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>is-failed <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>...</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Check whether any of the specified units are in a "failed" state.
- Returns an exit code 0 if at least one has failed, non-zero
- otherwise. Unless <option>--quiet</option> is specified, this
- will also print the current unit state to
- STDOUT.</para>
+ <para>Check whether any of the specified units are in a
+ "failed" state. Returns an exit code
+ <constant>0</constant> if at least one has failed,
+ non-zero otherwise. Unless <option>--quiet</option> is
+ specified, this will also print the current unit state to
+ standard output.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<listitem>
<para>Create a snapshot. If a snapshot name is specified,
the new snapshot will be named after it. If none is
- specified, an automatic snapshot name is generated. In either
- case, the snapshot name used is printed to STDOUT, unless
- <option>--quiet</option> is specified.</para>
+ specified, an automatic snapshot name is generated. In
+ either case, the snapshot name used is printed to standard
+ output, unless <option>--quiet</option> is specified.
+ </para>
<para>A snapshot refers to a saved state of the systemd
manager. It is implemented itself as a unit that is
<listitem>
<para>Import all, one or more environment variables set on
the client into the systemd manager environment block. If
- no arguments are passed the entire environment block is
- imported. Otherwise a list of one or more environment
- variable names should be passed, whose client side values
+ no arguments are passed, the entire environment block is
+ imported. Otherwise, a list of one or more environment
+ variable names should be passed, whose client-side values
are then imported into the manager's environment
block.</para>
</listitem>
<programlisting># systemctl status dev-sda.device
# systemctl status home.mount</programlisting>
In the second case, shell-style globs will be matched against
- currently loaded units, and literal unit names, with or without
+ currently loaded units; literal unit names, with or without
a suffix, will be treated as in the first case. This means that
literal unit names always refer to exactly one unit, but globs
may match zero units and this is not considered an error.</para>
<literal>[]</literal> may be used. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glob</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for more details. The patterns are matched against the names of
- currently loaded units, and patterns which don't match anything
+ currently loaded units, and patterns which do not match anything
are silently skipped. For example:
<programlisting># systemctl stop sshd@*.service</programlisting>
will stop all <filename>sshd@.service</filename> instances.
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>
- <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_LESS</varname></term>
- <listitem><para><varname>$SYSTEMD_LESS</varname> overrides the
- default options passed to <literal>less</literal>
- (<literal>FRSXMK</literal>).</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </refsect1>
+ <xi:include href="less-variables.xml" />
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
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