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                                 main process of the daemon. The
                                 command line accepts % specifiers as
                                 described in
-                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. On
-                                top of that basic environment variable
-                                substitution is supported, where
-                                <literal>${FOO}</literal> is replaced
-                                by the string value of the environment
-                                variable of the same name. Also
-                                <literal>$FOO</literal> may appear as
-                                separate word on the command line in
-                                which case the variable is replaced by
-                                its value split at whitespaces. Note
-                                that the first argument (i.e. the
-                                binary to execute) may not be a
-                                variable, and must be a literal and
-                                absolute path name.</para></listitem>
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+
+                                <para>On top of that basic environment
+                                variable substitution is
+                                supported. Use
+                                <literal>${FOO}</literal> as part of a
+                                word, or as word of its own on the
+                                command line, in which case it will be
+                                replaced by the value of the
+                                environment variable including all
+                                whitespace it contains, resulting in a
+                                single argument.  Use
+                                <literal>$FOO</literal> as a separate
+                                word on the command line, in which
+                                case it will be replaced by the value
+                                of the environment variable split up
+                                at whitespace, resulting in no or more
+                                arguments. Note that the first
+                                argument (i.e. the program to execute)
+                                may not be a variable, and must be a
+                                literal and absolute path
+                                name.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 time span value such as "5min
                                 20s". Pass 0 to disable the timeout
                                 logic. Defaults to
-                                60s.</para></listitem>
+                                90s.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 processes of this service shall be
                                 killed. One of
                                 <option>control-group</option>,
-                                <option>process-group</option>,
                                 <option>process</option>,
                                 <option>none</option>.</para>
 
                                 stop command (as configured with
                                 <varname>ExecStop=</varname>) is
                                 executed. If set to
-                                <option>process-group</option> only
-                                the members of the process group of
-                                the main service process are
-                                killed. If set to
                                 <option>process</option> only the main
                                 process itself is killed. If set to
                                 <option>none</option> no process is
                                 <listitem><para>Specifies the name of
                                 the socket units this service shall
                                 inherit the sockets from when the
-                                service (ignoring the different suffix
-                                of course) is started. Normally it
+                                service is started. Normally it
                                 should not be necessary to use this
                                 setting as all sockets whose unit
                                 shares the same name as the service
+                                (ignoring the different suffix of course)
                                 are passed to the spawned
                                 process.</para>