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24 <refentry id="systemd-inhibit">
25
26         <refentryinfo>
27                 <title>systemd-inhibit</title>
28                 <productname>systemd</productname>
29
30                 <authorgroup>
31                         <author>
32                                 <contrib>Developer</contrib>
33                                 <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
34                                 <surname>Poettering</surname>
35                                 <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
36                         </author>
37                 </authorgroup>
38         </refentryinfo>
39
40         <refmeta>
41                 <refentrytitle>systemd-inhibit</refentrytitle>
42                 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
43         </refmeta>
44
45         <refnamediv>
46                 <refname>systemd-inhibit</refname>
47                 <refpurpose>Execute a program with an inhibition lock taken</refpurpose>
48         </refnamediv>
49
50         <refsynopsisdiv>
51                 <cmdsynopsis>
52                         <command>systemd-inhibit <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> <arg>COMMAND</arg> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">ARGUMENTS</arg></command>
53                 </cmdsynopsis>
54                 <cmdsynopsis>
55                         <command>systemd-inhibit <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> --list</command>
56                 </cmdsynopsis>
57         </refsynopsisdiv>
58
59         <refsect1>
60                 <title>Description</title>
61
62                 <para><command>systemd-inhibit</command> may be used
63                 to execute a program with a shutdown, sleep or idle
64                 inhibitor lock taken. The lock will be acquired before
65                 the specified command line is executed and released
66                 afterwards.</para>
67
68                 <para>Inhibitor locks may be used to block or delay
69                 system sleep and shutdown requests from the user, as well
70                 as automatic idle handling of the OS. This is useful
71                 to avoid system suspends while an optical disc is
72                 being recorded, or similar operations that should not
73                 be interrupted.</para>
74
75                 <para>For more information see the <ulink
76                 url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/inhibit">Inhibitor
77                 Lock Developer Documentation</ulink>.</para>
78         </refsect1>
79
80         <refsect1>
81                 <title>Options</title>
82
83                 <para>The following options are understood:</para>
84
85                 <variablelist>
86                         <varlistentry>
87                                 <term><option>-h</option></term>
88                                 <term><option>--help</option></term>
89
90                                 <listitem><para>Prints a short help
91                                 text and exits.</para></listitem>
92                         </varlistentry>
93
94                         <varlistentry>
95                                 <term><option>--version</option></term>
96
97                                 <listitem><para>Prints a short version
98                                 string and exits.</para></listitem>
99                         </varlistentry>
100
101                         <varlistentry>
102                                 <term><option>--what=</option></term>
103
104                                 <listitem><para>Takes a colon
105                                 separated list of one or more
106                                 operations to inhibit:
107                                 <literal>shutdown</literal>,
108                                 <literal>sleep</literal>,
109                                 <literal>idle</literal>,
110                                 <literal>handle-power-key</literal>,
111                                 <literal>handle-suspend-key</literal>,
112                                 <literal>handle-hibernate-key</literal>,
113                                 <literal>handle-lid-switch</literal>,
114                                 for inhibiting
115                                 reboot/power-off/halt/kexec,
116                                 suspending/hibernating, the automatic
117                                 idle detection, or the low-level
118                                 handling of the power/sleep key and
119                                 the lid switch, respectively. If omitted,
120                                 defaults to
121                                 <literal>idle:sleep:shutdown</literal>.</para></listitem>
122                         </varlistentry>
123
124                         <varlistentry>
125                                 <term><option>--who=</option></term>
126
127                                 <listitem><para>Takes a short human
128                                 readable descriptive string for the
129                                 program taking the lock. If not passed
130                                 defaults to the command line
131                                 string.</para></listitem>
132                         </varlistentry>
133
134                         <varlistentry>
135                                 <term><option>--why=</option></term>
136
137                                 <listitem><para>Takes a short human
138                                 readable descriptive string for the
139                                 reason for taking the lock. Defaults
140                                 to "Unknown reason".</para></listitem>
141                         </varlistentry>
142
143                         <varlistentry>
144                                 <term><option>--mode=</option></term>
145
146                                 <listitem><para>Takes either
147                                 <literal>block</literal> or
148                                 <literal>delay</literal> and describes
149                                 how the lock is applied. If
150                                 <literal>block</literal> is used (the
151                                 default), the lock prohibits any of
152                                 the requested operations without time
153                                 limit, and only privileged users may
154                                 override it. If
155                                 <literal>delay</literal> is used, the
156                                 lock can only delay the requested
157                                 operations for a limited time. If the
158                                 time elapses the lock is ignored and
159                                 the operation executed. The time limit
160                                 may be specified in
161                                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-logind.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Note
162                                 that <literal>delay</literal> is only
163                                 available for <literal>sleep</literal>
164                                 and
165                                 <literal>shutdown</literal>.</para></listitem>
166                         </varlistentry>
167
168                         <varlistentry>
169                                 <term><option>--list</option></term>
170
171                                 <listitem><para>Lists all active
172                                 inhibition locks instead of acquiring
173                                 one.</para></listitem>
174                         </varlistentry>
175                 </variablelist>
176
177         </refsect1>
178
179         <refsect1>
180                 <title>Exit status</title>
181
182                 <para>Returns the exit status of the executed program.</para>
183         </refsect1>
184
185         <refsect1>
186                 <title>Example</title>
187
188                 <programlisting># systemd-inhibit wodim foobar.iso</programlisting>
189
190                 <para>This burns the ISO image
191                 <filename>foobar.iso</filename> on a CD using
192                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>wodim</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
193                 and inhibits system sleeping, shutdown and idle while
194                 doing so.</para>
195         </refsect1>
196
197         <refsect1>
198                 <title>See Also</title>
199                 <para>
200                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
201                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-logind.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
202                 </para>
203         </refsect1>
204
205 </refentry>