<para>The following options are understood:</para>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-h</option></term>
- <term><option>--help</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Prints a short help
- text and exits.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--version</option></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Prints a short version string and exits.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-t</option></term>
<term><option>--type=</option></term>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-r</option></term>
+ <term><option>--recursive</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>When listing units, also show units of local
+ containers. Units of local containers will be prefixed with
+ the container name, separated by a single colon character
+ (<literal>:</literal>).</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--reverse</option></term>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--after</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>With <command>list-dependencies</command>, show the
+ units that are ordered before the specified unit. In other
+ words, list the units that are in the <varname>After=</varname>
+ directive of the specified unit, have the specified unit in
+ their <varname>Before=</varname> directive, or are otherwise
+ implicit dependencies of the specified unit.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term><option>--before</option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Show which units are started after or before
- with <command>list-dependencies</command>, respectively.
- </para>
+ <para>With <command>list-dependencies</command>, show the
+ units that are ordered after the specified unit. In other
+ words, list the units that are in the <varname>Before=</varname>
+ directive of the specified unit, have the specified unit in
+ their <varname>After=</varname> directive, or otherwise depend
+ on the specified unit.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--no-pager</option></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Do not pipe output into a pager.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--system</option></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Talk to the systemd system manager. (Default)</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--user</option></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Talk to the systemd manager of the calling
- user.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="user" />
+ <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="system" />
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--no-wall</option></term>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-H</option></term>
- <term><option>--host</option></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Execute the operation remotely. Specify a hostname, or
- username and hostname separated by <literal>@</literal>, to
- connect to. This will use SSH to talk to the remote systemd
- instance.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-M</option></term>
- <term><option>--machine=</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Execute the operation on a local
- container. Specify a container name to connect
- to.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-n</option></term>
<term><option>--lines=</option></term>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="host" />
+ <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="machine" />
+
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-pager" />
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
failed state usually are not loaded, and would not be
matched by any pattern. In addition, in case of
instantiated units, systemd is often unaware of the
- instance name until the instance has been started. Therefore
+ instance name until the instance has been started. Therefore,
using glob patterns with <command>start</command>
has limited usefulness.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Send a signal to one or more processes of the
unit. Use <option>--kill-who=</option> to select which
- process to kill. Use <option>--kill-mode=</option> to select
- the kill mode and <option>--signal=</option> to select the
- signal to send.</para>
+ process to kill. Use <option>--signal=</option> to select
+ the signal to send.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<listitem>
<para>Check whether any of the specified units are active
- (i.e. running). Returns an exit code 0 if at least one is
- active, or non-zero otherwise. Unless <option>--quiet</option>
- is specified, this will also print the current unit state to
- STDOUT.</para>
+ (i.e. running). Returns an exit code
+ <constant>0</constant> if at least one is active, or
+ non-zero otherwise. Unless <option>--quiet</option> is
+ specified, this will also print the current unit state to
+ standard output.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>is-failed <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>...</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Check whether any of the specified units are in a "failed" state.
- Returns an exit code 0 if at least one has failed, non-zero
- otherwise. Unless <option>--quiet</option> is specified, this
- will also print the current unit state to
- STDOUT.</para>
+ <para>Check whether any of the specified units are in a
+ "failed" state. Returns an exit code
+ <constant>0</constant> if at least one has failed,
+ non-zero otherwise. Unless <option>--quiet</option> is
+ specified, this will also print the current unit state to
+ standard output.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<listitem>
<para>Show terse runtime status information about one or
more units, followed by most recent log data from the
- journal. If no units are specified, show all units (subject
- to limitations specified with <option>-t</option>). If a PID
- is passed, show information about the unit the process
- belongs to.</para>
+ journal. If no units are specified, show system status. If
+ combined with <option>--all</option> also shows status of
+ all units (subject to limitations specified with
+ <option>-t</option>). If a PID is passed, show information
+ about the unit the process belongs to.</para>
<para>This function is intended to generate human-readable
output. If you are looking for computer-parsable output,
</variablelist>
</refsect2>
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>Machine Commands</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>list-machines <optional><replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>...</optional></command></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>List the host and all running local containers with
+ their state. If one or more
+ <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>s are specified, only
+ containers matching one of them are shown.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect2>
+
<refsect2>
<title>Job Commands</title>
<listitem>
<para>Create a snapshot. If a snapshot name is specified,
the new snapshot will be named after it. If none is
- specified, an automatic snapshot name is generated. In either
- case, the snapshot name used is printed to STDOUT, unless
- <option>--quiet</option> is specified.</para>
+ specified, an automatic snapshot name is generated. In
+ either case, the snapshot name used is printed to standard
+ output, unless <option>--quiet</option> is specified.
+ </para>
<para>A snapshot refers to a saved state of the systemd
manager. It is implemented itself as a unit that is
<listitem>
<para>Import all, one or more environment variables set on
the client into the systemd manager environment block. If
- no arguments are passed the entire environment block is
- imported. Otherwise a list of one or more environment
- variable names should be passed, whose client side values
+ no arguments are passed, the entire environment block is
+ imported. Otherwise, a list of one or more environment
+ variable names should be passed, whose client-side values
are then imported into the manager's environment
block.</para>
</listitem>
<programlisting># systemctl status dev-sda.device
# systemctl status home.mount</programlisting>
In the second case, shell-style globs will be matched against
- currently loaded units, and literal unit names, with or without
+ currently loaded units; literal unit names, with or without
a suffix, will be treated as in the first case. This means that
literal unit names always refer to exactly one unit, but globs
may match zero units and this is not considered an error.</para>
<literal>[]</literal> may be used. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glob</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for more details. The patterns are matched against the names of
- currently loaded units, and patterns which don't match anything
+ currently loaded units, and patterns which do not match anything
are silently skipped. For example:
<programlisting># systemctl stop sshd@*.service</programlisting>
will stop all <filename>sshd@.service</filename> instances.
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