X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsystemd-notify.xml;h=b03492c5c10a69614dc9a54247d96795c70611c1;hp=46f3f1afaf6a82f741cb3007cb2a483e806276d2;hb=44ded3abc28620279633f51a05f2416e5aa3e8e2;hpb=c5abba08873903d80a2dcdd46aace959fcae1b0f diff --git a/man/systemd-notify.xml b/man/systemd-notify.xml index 46f3f1afa..b03492c5c 100644 --- a/man/systemd-notify.xml +++ b/man/systemd-notify.xml @@ -8,16 +8,16 @@ Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it - under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by - the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or + under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by + the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU - General Public License for more details. + Lesser General Public License for more details. - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with systemd; If not, see . --> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ systemd-notify - Notify init system about start-up completion and other daemon status changes + Notify service manager about start-up completion and other daemon status changes @@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ environment variables to send as part of the status update. + Note that systemd will refuse reception of + status updates from this command unless + NotifyAccess=all is set for the + service unit this command is called from. + @@ -82,13 +87,20 @@ - + Prints a short help text and exits. + + + + Prints a short version + string and exits. + + @@ -142,6 +154,17 @@ semantics of this option see sd_booted3. + + + + + Controls disk + read-ahead operations. The argument + must be a string, and either "cancel", + "done" or "noreplay". For details + about the semantics of this option see + sd_readahead3. + @@ -153,6 +176,34 @@ code otherwise. + + Example + + + Start-up Notification and Status Updates + + A simple shell daemon that sends + start-up notifications after having set up its + communication channel. During runtime it sends + further status updates to the init + system: + + #!/bin/bash + +mkfifo /tmp/waldo +systemd-notify --ready --status="Waiting for data..." + +while : ; do + read a < /tmp/waldo + systemd-notify --status="Processing $a" + + # Do something with $a ... + + systemd-notify --status="Waiting for data..." +done + + + See Also