Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
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<command>systemctl</command> will
query the user on the terminal for the
necessary secrets. Use this option to
- switch this behavior off. In this
- case the password must be supplied by
- some other means (for example
- graphical password agents) or the
- service might fail.</para></listitem>
+ switch this behavior off. In this case
+ the password must be supplied by some
+ other means (for example graphical
+ password agents) or the service might
+ fail. This also disables querying the
+ user for authentication for privileged
+ operations.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-f</option></term>
<listitem><para>When used with
- <command>enable</command>, override any
+ <command>enable</command>, overwrite any
existing conflicting
symlinks.</para></listitem>
formatting of the journal entries that
are shown. For the available choices
see
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Defaults
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Defaults
to
<literal>short</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<option>--user</option> option) and
will fail otherwise.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>suspend</command></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Suspend the system.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>hibernate</command></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Hibernate the system.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>switch-root [ROOT] [INIT]</command></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Switches to a
+ different root directory and executes
+ a new system manager process below
+ it. This is intended for usage in
+ initial RAM disks ("initrd"), and will
+ transition from the initrd's system
+ manager process (a.k.a "init" process)
+ to the main system manager
+ process. Takes two arguments: the
+ directory to make the new root
+ directory, and the path to the new
+ system manager binary below it to
+ execute as PID 1. If the latter is
+ ommitted or the empty string, a
+ systemd binary will automatically be
+ searched for and used as init. If the
+ system manager path is ommitted or
+ equal the empty string the state of
+ the initrd's system manager process is
+ passed to the main system manager,
+ which allows later introspection of the
+ state of the services involved in the
+ initrd boot.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemadm</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-loginctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>loginctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>wall</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>