shown.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--value</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>When printing properties with <command>show</command>,
+ only print the value, and skip the property name and
+ <literal>=</literal>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-a</option></term>
<term><option>--all</option></term>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>session-status</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+ <term><command>session-status</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>…</optional></term>
<listitem><para>Show terse runtime status information about
one or more sessions, followed by the most recent log data
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>show-session</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+ <term><command>show-session</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>…</optional></term>
<listitem><para>Show properties of one or more sessions or the
manager itself. If no argument is specified, properties of the
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>lock-session</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
- <term><command>unlock-session</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+ <term><command>lock-session</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>…</optional></term>
+ <term><command>unlock-session</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>…</optional></term>
<listitem><para>Activates/deactivates the screen lock on one
or more sessions, if the session supports it. Takes one or
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>terminate-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>terminate-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>…</term>
<listitem><para>Terminates a session. This kills all processes
of the session and deallocates all resources attached to the
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>kill-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>kill-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>…</term>
<listitem><para>Send a signal to one or more processes of the
session. Use <option>--kill-who=</option> to select which
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>user-status</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+ <term><command>user-status</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>…</optional></term>
<listitem><para>Show terse runtime status information about
one or more logged in users, followed by the most recent log
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>show-user</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+ <term><command>show-user</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>…</optional></term>
<listitem><para>Show properties of one or more users or the
manager itself. If no argument is specified, properties of the
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>enable-linger</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
- <term><command>disable-linger</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+ <term><command>enable-linger</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>…</optional></term>
+ <term><command>disable-linger</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>…</optional></term>
<listitem><para>Enable/disable user lingering for one or more
users. If enabled for a specific user, a user manager is
This allows users who are not logged in to run long-running
services. Takes one or more user names or numeric UIDs as
argument. If no argument is specified, enables/disables
- lingering for the user of the session of the caller.
+ lingering for the user of the session of the caller.</para>
+
+ <para>See also <varname>KillUserProcesses=</varname> setting in
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>logind.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>terminate-user</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>terminate-user</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>…</term>
<listitem><para>Terminates all sessions of a user. This kills
all processes of all sessions of the user and deallocates all
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>kill-user</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>kill-user</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>…</term>
<listitem><para>Send a signal to all processes of a user. Use
<option>--signal=</option> to select the signal to send.
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>seat-status</command> <optional><replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+ <term><command>seat-status</command> <optional><replaceable>NAME</replaceable>…</optional></term>
<listitem><para>Show terse runtime status information about
one or more seats. Takes one or more seat names as parameters.
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>show-seat</command> <optional><replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+ <term><command>show-seat</command> <optional><replaceable>NAME</replaceable>…</optional></term>
<listitem><para>Show properties of one or more seats or the
manager itself. If no argument is specified, properties of the
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>attach</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> <replaceable>DEVICE</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>attach</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> <replaceable>DEVICE</replaceable>…</term>
<listitem><para>Persistently attach one or more devices to a
seat. The devices should be specified via device paths in the
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>terminate-seat</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>terminate-seat</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>…</term>
<listitem><para>Terminates all sessions on a seat. This kills
all processes of all sessions on the seat and deallocates all
otherwise.</para>
</refsect1>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Examples</title>
+
+ <example>
+ <title>Querying user status</title>
+
+ <programlisting>$ loginctl user-status
+fatima (1005)
+ Since: Sat 2016-04-09 14:23:31 EDT; 54min ago
+ State: active
+ Sessions: 5 *3
+ Unit: user-1005.slice
+ ├─user@1005.service
+ …
+ ├─session-3.scope
+ …
+ └─session-5.scope
+ ├─3473 login -- fatima
+ └─3515 -zsh
+
+Apr 09 14:40:30 laptop login[2325]: pam_unix(login:session):
+ session opened for user fatima by LOGIN(uid=0)
+Apr 09 14:40:30 laptop login[2325]: LOGIN ON tty3 BY fatima
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>There are two sessions, 3 and 5. Session 3 is a graphical session,
+ marked with a star. The tree of processing including the two corresponding
+ scope units and the user manager unit are shown.</para>
+ </example>
+ </refsect1>
+
<xi:include href="less-variables.xml" />
<refsect1>