From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:44:26 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: man: document that first param to ExecStart= cannot be variable substitution
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man: document that first param to ExecStart= cannot be variable substitution

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630156
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diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index d6c0e3fd9..6ab3bc360 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -292,8 +292,11 @@
                                 <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.</para></listitem>
+                                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>
                         </varlistentry>
 
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