<refnamediv>
<refname>systemd</refname>
<refname>init</refname>
- <refpurpose>systemd System and Session Manager</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>systemd System and Service Manager</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
- <para>systemd is a system and session manager for
+ <para>systemd is a system and service manager for
Linux operating systems. When run as first process on
boot (as PID 1), it acts as init system that brings
up and maintains userspace services.</para>
<para>When run as system instance, systemd interprets
the configuration file
<filename>system.conf</filename>, otherwise
- <filename>session.conf</filename>. See
+ <filename>user.conf</filename>. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for more information.</para>
</refsect1>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--system</option></term>
- <term><option>--session</option></term>
+ <term><option>--user</option></term>
<listitem><para>Tell systemd to run a
- system instance (resp. session
+ system instance (resp. user
instance), even if the process ID is
not 1 (resp. is 1), i.e. systemd is
not (resp. is) run as init process.
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--dump-core</option></term>
- <listitem><para>Dump core on crash. This switch has no effect when run as session instance.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Dump core on
+ crash. This switch has no effect when
+ run as user
+ instance.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--crash-shell</option></term>
- <listitem><para>Run shell on crash. This switch has no effect when run as session instance.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Run shell on
+ crash. This switch has no effect when
+ run as user
+ instance.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--confirm-spawn</option></term>
- <listitem><para>Ask for confirmation when spawning processes. This switch has no effect when run as session instance.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Ask for confirmation
+ when spawning processes. This switch
+ has no effect when run as user
+ instance.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--show-status=</option></term>
<listitem><para>Show terse service
status information while booting. This
- switch has no effect when run as
- session instance. Takes a boolean
- argument which may be omitted
- which is interpreted as
+ switch has no effect when run as user
+ instance. Takes a boolean argument
+ which may be omitted which is
+ interpreted as
<option>true</option>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<listitem><para>Controls whether
output of SysV init scripts will be
directed to the console. This switch
- has no effect when run as session
+ has no effect when run as user
instance. Takes a boolean argument
which may be omitted which is
interpreted as
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Session unit directories</term>
+ <term>User unit directories</term>
<listitem><para>Similar rules apply
- for the session unit
+ for the user unit
directories. However, here the <ulink
url="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html">XDG
Base Directory specification</ulink>
units. Applications should place their
unit files in the directory returned
by <command>pkg-config systemd
- --variable=systemdsessionunitdir</command>. Global
+ --variable=systemduserunitdir</command>. Global
configuration is done in the directory
reported by <command>pkg-config
systemd
- --variable=systemdsessionconfdir</command>. The
+ --variable=systemduserconfdir</command>. The
<command>enable</command> and
<command>disable</command> commands of
the
to <command>systemctl
daemon-reexec</command>.</para>
- <para>systemd session managers will
+ <para>systemd user managers will
start the
<filename>exit.target</filename> unit
when this signal is received. This is
mostly equivalent to
- <command>systemctl --session start
+ <command>systemctl --user start
exit.target</command>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<command>systemctl start
ctl-alt-del.target</command>.</para>
- <para>systemd session managers
+ <para>systemd user managers
treat this signal the same way as
SIGTERM.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
kbrequest.target</command>.</para>
<para>This signal is ignored by
- systemd session
+ systemd user
managers.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term><varname>$XDG_DATA_HOME</varname></term>
<term><varname>$XDG_DATA_DIRS</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>The systemd session
+ <listitem><para>The systemd user
manager uses these variables in
accordance to the <ulink
url="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html">XDG
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