journal: introduce log target 'journal' for executed processes

[elogind.git] / man / systemd.exec.xml

diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml
index c7da8e312e674e2c46211a350a7026aa6a294267..c1ab6b90106bc1b4771ef17cf53b54c5b6b3b488 100644 (file)
--- a/man/systemd.exec.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml
@@ -279,6 +279,11 @@
                                 assignments. Empty lines and lines
                                 starting with ; or # will be ignored,
                                 which may be used for commenting. The
+                                parser strips leading and
+                                trailing whitespace from the values
+                                of assignments, unless you use
+                                double quotes (").
+                                The
                                 argument passed should be an absolute
                                 file name, optionally prefixed with
                                 "-", which indicates that if the file
@@ -361,8 +366,10 @@
                                 <option>tty</option>,
                                 <option>syslog</option>,
                                 <option>kmsg</option>,
+                                <option>journal</option>,
+                                <option>syslog+console</option>,
                                 <option>kmsg+console</option>,
-                                <option>syslog+console</option> or
+                                <option>journal+console</option> or
                                 <option>socket</option>. If set to
                                 <option>inherit</option> the file
                                 descriptor of standard input is
@@ -387,8 +394,17 @@
                                 service. <option>kmsg</option>
                                 connects it with the kernel log buffer
                                 which is accessible via
-                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dmesg</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>. <option>syslog+console</option>
-                                and <option>kmsg+console</option> work
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dmesg</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>. <option>journal</option>
+                                connects it with the journal which is
+                                accessible via
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                                (Note that everything that is written
+                                to syslog or kmsg is implicitly stored
+                                in the journal as well, those options
+                                are hence supersets of this
+                                one). <option>syslog+console</option>,
+                                <option>journal+console</option> and
+                                <option>kmsg+console</option> work
                                 similarly but copy the output to the
                                 system console as
                                 well. <option>socket</option> connects
@@ -396,8 +412,13 @@
                                 socket activation, semantics are
                                 similar to the respective option of
                                 <varname>StandardInput=</varname>.
-                                This setting defaults to
-                                <option>inherit</option>.</para></listitem>
+                                This setting defaults to the value set
+                                with
+                                <option>DefaultStandardOutput=</option>
+                                in
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                                which defaults to
+                                <option>journal</option>.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>StandardError=</varname></term>
@@ -411,7 +432,11 @@
                                 <option>inherit</option> the file
                                 descriptor used for standard output is
                                 duplicated for standard error. This
-                                setting defaults to
+                                setting defaults to the value set with
+                                <option>DefaultStandardError=</option>
+                                in
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                                which defaults to
                                 <option>inherit</option>.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                         <varlistentry>