man/busctl.xml

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  24 <refentry id="busctl"
  25           xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
  26
  27   <refentryinfo>
  28     <title>busctl</title>
  29     <productname>systemd</productname>
  30
  31     <authorgroup>
  32       <author>
  33         <contrib>A monkey with a typewriter</contrib>
  34         <firstname>Zbigniew</firstname>
  35         <surname>Jędrzejewski-Szmek</surname>
  36         <email>zbyszek@in.waw.pl</email>
  37       </author>
  38     </authorgroup>
  39   </refentryinfo>
  40
  41   <refmeta>
  42     <refentrytitle>busctl</refentrytitle>
  43     <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
  44   </refmeta>
  45
  46   <refnamediv>
  47     <refname>busctl</refname>
  48     <refpurpose>Introspect the bus</refpurpose>
  49   </refnamediv>
  50
  51   <refsynopsisdiv>
  52     <cmdsynopsis>
  53       <command>busctl</command>
  54       <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
  55       <arg choice="opt">COMMAND</arg>
  56       <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>NAME</replaceable></arg>
  57     </cmdsynopsis>
  58   </refsynopsisdiv>
  59
  60   <refsect1>
  61     <title>Description</title>
  62
  63     <para><command>busctl</command> may be used to
  64     introspect and monitor the D-Bus bus.</para>
  65   </refsect1>
  66
  67   <refsect1>
  68     <title>Options</title>
  69
  70     <para>The following options are understood:</para>
  71
  72     <variablelist>
  73       <varlistentry>
  74           <term><option>--address=<replaceable>ADDRESS</replaceable></option></term>
  75
  76           <listitem><para>Connect to the bus specified by
  77           <replaceable>ADDRESS</replaceable> instead of using suitable
  78           defaults for either the system or user bus (see
  79           <option>--system</option> and <option>--user</option>
  80           options).</para></listitem>
  81       </varlistentry>
  82
  83       <varlistentry>
  84           <term><option>--show-machine</option></term>
  85
  86           <listitem><para>When showing the list of endpoints, show a
  87           column containing the names of containers they belong to.
  88           See
  89           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machined.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
  90           </para></listitem>
  91       </varlistentry>
  92
  93       <varlistentry>
  94           <term><option>--unique</option></term>
  95
  96           <listitem><para>When showing the list of endpoints, show
  97           only "unique" names (of the form
  98           <literal>:<replaceable>number</replaceable>.<replaceable>number</replaceable></literal>).
  99           </para></listitem>
 100       </varlistentry>
 101
 102       <varlistentry>
 103           <term><option>--acquired</option></term>
 104
 105           <listitem><para>The opposite of <option>--unique</option> —
 106           only "well-known" names will be shown.</para></listitem>
 107       </varlistentry>
 108
 109       <varlistentry>
 110           <term><option>--activatable</option></term>
 111
 112           <listitem><para>When showing the list of endpoints, show
 113           only endpoints which have actually not been activated yet,
 114           but may be started automatically if accessed.</para>
 115           </listitem>
 116       </varlistentry>
 117
 118       <varlistentry>
 119           <term><option>--match=<replaceable>MATCH</replaceable></option></term>
 120
 121           <listitem><para>When showing messages being exchanged, show only the
 122           subset matching <replaceable>MATCH</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
 123           <!-- TODO: link to sd_bus_add_match when it is written? -->
 124       </varlistentry>
 125
 126       <varlistentry>
 127         <term><option>--no-legend</option></term>
 128
 129         <listitem>
 130           <para>Do not print the legend,
 131           i.e. the column headers and the
 132           footer.</para>
 133         </listitem>
 134       </varlistentry>
 135
 136       <varlistentry>
 137         <term><option>--size=</option></term>
 138
 139         <listitem>
 140           <para>When used with the <command>capture</command> command
 141           specifies the maximum bus message size to capture
 142           ("snaplen"). Defaults to 4096 bytes.</para>
 143         </listitem>
 144       </varlistentry>
 145
 146       <varlistentry>
 147         <term><option>--list</option></term>
 148
 149         <listitem>
 150           <para>When used with the <command>tree</command> command shows a
 151           flat list of object paths instead of a tree.</para>
 152         </listitem>
 153       </varlistentry>
 154
 155       <varlistentry>
 156         <term><option>--quiet</option></term>
 157
 158         <listitem>
 159           <para>When used with the <command>call</command> command suppresses
 160           display of the response message.</para>
 161         </listitem>
 162       </varlistentry>
 163
 164       <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="user" />
 165       <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="system" />
 166       <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="host" />
 167       <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="machine" />
 168
 169       <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
 170       <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
 171       <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-pager" />
 172     </variablelist>
 173   </refsect1>
 174
 175   <refsect1>
 176     <title>Commands</title>
 177
 178     <para>The following commands are understood:</para>
 179
 180     <variablelist>
 181       <varlistentry>
 182         <term><command>list</command></term>
 183
 184         <listitem><para>Show service names on the bus. This is the
 185         default if no command is specified.</para></listitem>
 186       </varlistentry>
 187
 188       <varlistentry>
 189         <term><command>status</command> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg></term>
 190
 191         <listitem><para>Show process information and credentials of a
 192         bus service.</para></listitem>
 193       </varlistentry>
 194
 195       <varlistentry>
 196         <term><command>monitor</command> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg></term>
 197
 198         <listitem><para>Dump messages being exchanged. If
 199         <replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable> is specified, show messages
 200         to or from this endpoint. Otherwise, show all messages on the
 201         bus. Use Ctrl-C to terminate dump.</para></listitem>
 202       </varlistentry>
 203
 204       <varlistentry>
 205         <term><command>capture</command> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg></term>
 206
 207         <listitem><para>Similar to <command>monitor</command> but
 208         writes the output in pcap format (for details see the <ulink
 209         url="http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LibpcapFileFormat">Libpcap
 210         File Format</ulink> description. Make sure to redirect the
 211         output to STDOUT to a file. Tools like
 212         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>wireshark</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
 213         may be used to dissect and view the generated
 214         files.</para></listitem>
 215       </varlistentry>
 216
 217       <varlistentry>
 218         <term><command>tree</command> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg></term>
 219
 220         <listitem><para>Shows an object tree of one or more
 221         services. If <replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable> is specified,
 222         show object tree of the specified services only. Otherwise,
 223         show all object trees of all services on the bus that acquired
 224         at least one well-known name.</para></listitem>
 225       </varlistentry>
 226
 227       <varlistentry>
 228         <term><command>introspect</command> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>OBJECT</replaceable></arg></term>
 229
 230         <listitem><para>Show interfaces, methods, properties and
 231         signals of the specified object (identified by its path) on
 232         the specified service.</para></listitem>
 233       </varlistentry>
 234
 235       <varlistentry>
 236         <term><command>call</command> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>OBJECT</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>INTERFACE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>METHOD</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="opt"><replaceable>SIGNATURE</replaceable> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>ARGUMENT</replaceable></arg></arg></term>
 237
 238         <listitem><para>Invoke a method and show the response. Takes a
 239         service name, object path, interface name and method name. If
 240         parameters shall be passed to the method call a signature
 241         string is required, followed by the individual arguments,
 242         individually formatted as textual parameters.</para></listitem>
 243       </varlistentry>
 244
 245       <varlistentry>
 246         <term><command>get-property</command> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>OBJECT</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="opt"><replaceable>INTERFACE</replaceable> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>PROPERTY</replaceable></arg></arg></term>
 247
 248         <listitem><para>Retrieve the current value one or more object
 249         properties. Takes a service name and object path. Optionally
 250         takes an interface name and property name. If the property
 251         name is omited, shows all properties on the selected
 252         interface. If the interface is also omitted shows the
 253         properties of all interfaces. Multiple properties may be
 254         specified at once in which case their values will be shown one
 255         after the other.</para></listitem>
 256       </varlistentry>
 257
 258       <varlistentry>
 259         <term><command>help</command></term>
 260
 261         <listitem><para>Show command syntax help.</para></listitem>
 262       </varlistentry>
 263     </variablelist>
 264   </refsect1>
 265
 266   <refsect1>
 267     <title>See Also</title>
 268
 269     <para>
 270       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 271       <ulink url="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus">D-Bus</ulink>,
 272       <ulink url="https://code.google.com/p/d-bus/">kdbus</ulink>,
 273       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-bus</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 274       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 275       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-bus-proxyd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 276       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machinectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 277       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>wireshark</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
 278     </para>
 279   </refsect1>
 280 </refentry>