X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=man%2Fsystemd.xml;h=e74d71b126f096a2fd78c404f8e271841ec97da1;hb=bb4f237c651623ca2b523fb3ac14268fac9bb487;hp=ba775c5c91197c902639ad46f2f86e34b55ffd1e;hpb=f3e219a238c716ffa06fab7b0618197c090dfd5a;p=elogind.git diff --git a/man/systemd.xml b/man/systemd.xml index ba775c5c9..e74d71b12 100644 --- a/man/systemd.xml +++ b/man/systemd.xml @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Extract D-Bus interface introspection data. This is - mostly useful at build at install time + mostly useful at install time to generate data suitable for the D-Bus interfaces repository. Optionally the interface @@ -135,17 +135,19 @@ default.target. - + + - Tell systemd to run in - a particular mode. Argument is one of - , - . Normally it - should not be necessary to pass this - option, as systemd automatically - detects the mode it is started - in. This call is hence of little use - except for + Tell systemd to run a + system instance (resp. session + instance), even if the process ID is + not 1 (resp. is 1), i.e. system is not + (resp. is) run as init process. + Normally it should not be necessary to + pass these options, as systemd + automatically detects the mode it is + started in. These options are hence of + little use except for debugging. @@ -232,7 +234,7 @@ configuration or dynamically from system state. Units may be active (meaning started, bound, plugged in, ... depending on the unit type), or inactive (meaning - stopped, unbound, unplugged, ...), as well is in the + stopped, unbound, unplugged, ...), as well as in the process of being activated or deactivated, i.e. between the two states. The following unit types are available: @@ -278,7 +280,7 @@ systemd units, which later may be restored by activating the saved snapshot unit. For more information see - systemd.automount5. + systemd.snapshot5. Timer units are useful for triggering activation of other units based on @@ -291,7 +293,7 @@ systemd. They are described in systemd.swap5. Path units may be used - activate other services when file system + to activate other services when file system objects change or are modified. See systemd.path5. @@ -303,7 +305,7 @@ systemd.special7. On boot systemd activates the target unit - default.target whose job it is to + default.target whose job is to activate on-boot services and other on-boot units by pulling them in via dependencies. Usually the unit name is just an alias (symlink) for either @@ -318,7 +320,7 @@ systemd.special7 for details about these target units. - Processes systemd spawns ared placed in + Processes systemd spawns are placed in individual Linux control groups named after the unit which they belong to in the private systemd hierarchy. (see /dev/initctl interface is - provided, and comaptibility implementations of the - various SysV client tools available. In addition to - that various established Unix functionality such as + provided, and compatibility implementations of the + various SysV client tools are available. In addition to + that, various established Unix functionality such as /etc/fstab or the utmp database are supported. @@ -466,7 +468,7 @@ when figuring out whether a service shall be enabled. Note that a service unit with a native unit configuration - file can be started by activating it + file cannot be started by activating it in the SysV runlevel link farm.