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11 Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
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27 <refentry id=
"systemctl"
28 xmlns:
xi=
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
31 <title>systemctl
</title>
32 <productname>systemd
</productname>
36 <contrib>Developer
</contrib>
37 <firstname>Lennart
</firstname>
38 <surname>Poettering
</surname>
39 <email>lennart@poettering.net
</email>
45 <refentrytitle>systemctl
</refentrytitle>
46 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
50 <refname>systemctl
</refname>
51 <refpurpose>Control the systemd system and service manager
</refpurpose>
56 <command>systemctl
</command>
57 <arg choice=
"opt" rep=
"repeat">OPTIONS
</arg>
58 <arg choice=
"plain">COMMAND
</arg>
59 <arg choice=
"opt" rep=
"repeat">NAME
</arg>
64 <title>Description
</title>
66 <para><command>systemctl
</command> may be used to introspect and
67 control the state of the
<literal>systemd
</literal> system and
68 service manager. Please refer to
69 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
70 for an introduction into the basic concepts and functionality this
75 <title>Options
</title>
77 <para>The following options are understood:
</para>
81 <term><option>-t
</option></term>
82 <term><option>--type=
</option></term>
85 <para>The argument should be a comma-separated list of unit
86 types such as
<option>service
</option> and
87 <option>socket
</option>.
90 <para>If one of the arguments is a unit type, when listing
91 units, limit display to certain unit types. Otherwise, units
92 of all types will be shown.
</para>
94 <para>As a special case, if one of the arguments is
95 <option>help
</option>, a list of allowed values will be
96 printed and the program will exit.
</para>
101 <term><option>--state=
</option></term>
104 <para>The argument should be a comma-separated list of unit
105 LOAD, SUB, or ACTIVE states. When listing units, show only
106 those in the specified states. Use
<option>--state=failed
</option>
107 to show only failed units.
</para>
109 <para>As a special case, if one of the arguments is
110 <option>help
</option>, a list of allowed values will be
111 printed and the program will exit.
</para>
116 <term><option>-p
</option></term>
117 <term><option>--property=
</option></term>
120 <para>When showing unit/job/manager properties with the
121 <command>show
</command> command, limit display to properties
122 specified in the argument. The argument should be a
123 comma-separated list of property names, such as
124 <literal>MainPID
</literal>. Unless specified, all known
125 properties are shown. If specified more than once, all
126 properties with the specified names are shown. Shell
127 completion is implemented for property names.
</para>
129 <para>For the manager itself,
130 <command>systemctl show
</command> will show all available
131 properties. Those properties are documented in
132 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
135 <para>Properties for units vary by unit type, so showing any
136 unit (even a non-existent one) is a way to list properties
137 pertaining to this type. Similarly, showing any job will list
138 properties pertaining to all jobs. Properties for units are
140 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
141 and the pages for individual unit types
142 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
143 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.socket
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
149 <term><option>-a
</option></term>
150 <term><option>--all
</option></term>
153 <para>When listing units with
<command>list-units
</command>, also show inactive units and
154 units which are following other units. When showing unit/job/manager properties, show all
155 properties regardless whether they are set or not.
</para>
157 <para>To list all units installed in the file system, use the
158 <command>list-unit-files
</command> command instead.
</para>
160 <para>When listing units with
<command>list-dependencies
</command>, recursively show
161 dependencies of all dependent units (by default only dependencies of target units are
167 <term><option>-r
</option></term>
168 <term><option>--recursive
</option></term>
171 <para>When listing units, also show units of local
172 containers. Units of local containers will be prefixed with
173 the container name, separated by a single colon character
174 (
<literal>:
</literal>).
</para>
179 <term><option>--reverse
</option></term>
182 <para>Show reverse dependencies between units with
183 <command>list-dependencies
</command>, i.e. follow
184 dependencies of type
<varname>WantedBy=
</varname>,
185 <varname>RequiredBy=
</varname>,
186 <varname>PartOf=
</varname>,
<varname>BoundBy=
</varname>,
187 instead of
<varname>Wants=
</varname> and similar.
193 <term><option>--after
</option></term>
196 <para>With
<command>list-dependencies
</command>, show the
197 units that are ordered before the specified unit. In other
198 words, recursively list units following the
199 <varname>After=
</varname> dependency.
</para>
201 <para>Note that any
<varname>After=
</varname> dependency is
202 automatically mirrored to create a
203 <varname>Before=
</varname> dependency. Temporal dependencies
204 may be specified explicitly, but are also created implicitly
205 for units which are
<varname>WantedBy=
</varname> targets
207 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.target
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>),
208 and as a result of other directives (for example
209 <varname>RequiresMountsFor=
</varname>). Both explicitly
210 and implicitly introduced dependencies are shown with
211 <command>list-dependencies
</command>.
</para>
213 <para>When passed to the
<command>list-jobs
</command> command, for each printed job show which other jobs are
214 waiting for it. May be combined with
<option>--before
</option> to show both the jobs waiting for each job as
215 well as all jobs each job is waiting for.
</para>
220 <term><option>--before
</option></term>
223 <para>With
<command>list-dependencies
</command>, show the
224 units that are ordered after the specified unit. In other
225 words, recursively list units following the
226 <varname>Before=
</varname> dependency.
</para>
228 <para>When passed to the
<command>list-jobs
</command> command, for each printed job show which other jobs it
229 is waiting for. May be combined with
<option>--after
</option> to show both the jobs waiting for each job as
230 well as all jobs each job is waiting for.
</para>
235 <term><option>-l
</option></term>
236 <term><option>--full
</option></term>
239 <para>Do not ellipsize unit names, process tree entries,
240 journal output, or truncate unit descriptions in the output
241 of
<command>status
</command>,
<command>list-units
</command>,
242 <command>list-jobs
</command>, and
243 <command>list-timers
</command>.
</para>
244 <para>Also, show installation targets in the output of
245 <command>is-enabled
</command>.
</para>
250 <term><option>--value
</option></term>
253 <para>When printing properties with
<command>show
</command>,
254 only print the value, and skip the property name and
255 <literal>=
</literal>.
</para>
260 <term><option>--show-types
</option></term>
263 <para>When showing sockets, show the type of the socket.
</para>
268 <term><option>--job-mode=
</option></term>
271 <para>When queuing a new job, this option controls how to deal with
272 already queued jobs. It takes one of
<literal>fail
</literal>,
273 <literal>replace
</literal>,
274 <literal>replace-irreversibly
</literal>,
275 <literal>isolate
</literal>,
276 <literal>ignore-dependencies
</literal>,
277 <literal>ignore-requirements
</literal> or
278 <literal>flush
</literal>. Defaults to
279 <literal>replace
</literal>, except when the
280 <command>isolate
</command> command is used which implies the
281 <literal>isolate
</literal> job mode.
</para>
283 <para>If
<literal>fail
</literal> is specified and a requested
284 operation conflicts with a pending job (more specifically:
285 causes an already pending start job to be reversed into a stop
286 job or vice versa), cause the operation to fail.
</para>
288 <para>If
<literal>replace
</literal> (the default) is
289 specified, any conflicting pending job will be replaced, as
292 <para>If
<literal>replace-irreversibly
</literal> is specified,
293 operate like
<literal>replace
</literal>, but also mark the new
294 jobs as irreversible. This prevents future conflicting
295 transactions from replacing these jobs (or even being enqueued
296 while the irreversible jobs are still pending). Irreversible
297 jobs can still be cancelled using the
<command>cancel
</command>
300 <para><literal>isolate
</literal> is only valid for start
301 operations and causes all other units to be stopped when the
302 specified unit is started. This mode is always used when the
303 <command>isolate
</command> command is used.
</para>
305 <para><literal>flush
</literal> will cause all queued jobs to
306 be canceled when the new job is enqueued.
</para>
308 <para>If
<literal>ignore-dependencies
</literal> is specified,
309 then all unit dependencies are ignored for this new job and
310 the operation is executed immediately. If passed, no required
311 units of the unit passed will be pulled in, and no ordering
312 dependencies will be honored. This is mostly a debugging and
313 rescue tool for the administrator and should not be used by
316 <para><literal>ignore-requirements
</literal> is similar to
317 <literal>ignore-dependencies
</literal>, but only causes the
318 requirement dependencies to be ignored, the ordering
319 dependencies will still be honored.
</para>
325 <term><option>--fail
</option></term>
328 <para>Shorthand for
<option>--job-mode=
</option>fail.
</para>
329 <para>When used with the
<command>kill
</command> command,
330 if no units were killed, the operation results in an error.
336 <term><option>-i
</option></term>
337 <term><option>--ignore-inhibitors
</option></term>
340 <para>When system shutdown or a sleep state is requested,
341 ignore inhibitor locks. Applications can establish inhibitor
342 locks to avoid that certain important operations (such as CD
343 burning or suchlike) are interrupted by system shutdown or a
344 sleep state. Any user may take these locks and privileged
345 users may override these locks. If any locks are taken,
346 shutdown and sleep state requests will normally fail
347 (regardless of whether privileged or not) and a list of active locks
348 is printed. However, if
<option>--ignore-inhibitors
</option>
349 is specified, the locks are ignored and not printed, and the
350 operation attempted anyway, possibly requiring additional
356 <term><option>-q
</option></term>
357 <term><option>--quiet
</option></term>
360 <para>Suppress printing of the results of various commands
361 and also the hints about truncated log lines. This does not
362 suppress output of commands for which the printed output is
363 the only result (like
<command>show
</command>). Errors are
364 always printed.
</para>
369 <term><option>--no-block
</option></term>
372 <para>Do not synchronously wait for the requested operation
373 to finish. If this is not specified, the job will be
374 verified, enqueued and
<command>systemctl
</command> will
375 wait until the unit's start-up is completed. By passing this
376 argument, it is only verified and enqueued. This option may not be
377 combined with
<option>--wait
</option>.
</para>
382 <term><option>--wait
</option></term>
385 <para>Synchronously wait for started units to terminate again.
386 This option may not be combined with
<option>--no-block
</option>.
387 Note that this will wait forever if any given unit never terminates
388 (by itself or by getting stopped explicitly); particularly services
389 which use
<literal>RemainAfterExit=yes
</literal>.
</para>
393 <xi:include href=
"user-system-options.xml" xpointer=
"user" />
394 <xi:include href=
"user-system-options.xml" xpointer=
"system" />
397 <term><option>--failed
</option></term>
400 <para>List units in failed state. This is equivalent to
401 <option>--state=failed
</option>.
</para>
406 <term><option>--no-wall
</option></term>
409 <para>Do not send wall message before halt, power-off,
415 <term><option>--global
</option></term>
418 <para>When used with
<command>enable
</command> and
419 <command>disable
</command>, operate on the global user
420 configuration directory, thus enabling or disabling a unit
421 file globally for all future logins of all users.
</para>
426 <term><option>--no-reload
</option></term>
429 <para>When used with
<command>enable
</command> and
430 <command>disable
</command>, do not implicitly reload daemon
431 configuration after executing the changes.
</para>
436 <term><option>--no-ask-password
</option></term>
439 <para>When used with
<command>start
</command> and related
440 commands, disables asking for passwords. Background services
441 may require input of a password or passphrase string, for
442 example to unlock system hard disks or cryptographic
443 certificates. Unless this option is specified and the
444 command is invoked from a terminal,
445 <command>systemctl
</command> will query the user on the
446 terminal for the necessary secrets. Use this option to
447 switch this behavior off. In this case, the password must be
448 supplied by some other means (for example graphical password
449 agents) or the service might fail. This also disables
450 querying the user for authentication for privileged
456 <term><option>--kill-who=
</option></term>
459 <para>When used with
<command>kill
</command>, choose which
460 processes to send a signal to. Must be one of
461 <option>main
</option>,
<option>control
</option> or
462 <option>all
</option> to select whether to kill only the main
463 process, the control process or all processes of the
464 unit. The main process of the unit is the one that defines
465 the life-time of it. A control process of a unit is one that
466 is invoked by the manager to induce state changes of it. For
467 example, all processes started due to the
468 <varname>ExecStartPre=
</varname>,
469 <varname>ExecStop=
</varname> or
470 <varname>ExecReload=
</varname> settings of service units are
471 control processes. Note that there is only one control
472 process per unit at a time, as only one state change is
473 executed at a time. For services of type
474 <varname>Type=forking
</varname>, the initial process started
475 by the manager for
<varname>ExecStart=
</varname> is a
476 control process, while the process ultimately forked off by
477 that one is then considered the main process of the unit (if
478 it can be determined). This is different for service units
479 of other types, where the process forked off by the manager
480 for
<varname>ExecStart=
</varname> is always the main process
481 itself. A service unit consists of zero or one main process,
482 zero or one control process plus any number of additional
483 processes. Not all unit types manage processes of these
484 types however. For example, for mount units, control processes
485 are defined (which are the invocations of
486 <filename>&MOUNT_PATH;</filename> and
487 <filename>&UMOUNT_PATH;</filename>), but no main process
488 is defined. If omitted, defaults to
489 <option>all
</option>.
</para>
495 <term><option>-s
</option></term>
496 <term><option>--signal=
</option></term>
499 <para>When used with
<command>kill
</command>, choose which
500 signal to send to selected processes. Must be one of the
501 well-known signal specifiers such as
<constant>SIGTERM
</constant>,
<constant>SIGINT
</constant> or
502 <constant>SIGSTOP
</constant>. If omitted, defaults to
503 <option>SIGTERM
</option>.
</para>
508 <term><option>-f
</option></term>
509 <term><option>--force
</option></term>
512 <para>When used with
<command>enable
</command>, overwrite
513 any existing conflicting symlinks.
</para>
515 <para>When used with
<command>edit
</command>, create all of the
516 specified units which do not already exist.
</para>
518 <para>When used with
<command>halt
</command>,
<command>poweroff
</command>,
<command>reboot
</command> or
519 <command>kexec
</command>, execute the selected operation without shutting down all units. However, all
520 processes will be killed forcibly and all file systems are unmounted or remounted read-only. This is hence a
521 drastic but relatively safe option to request an immediate reboot. If
<option>--force
</option> is specified
522 twice for these operations (with the exception of
<command>kexec
</command>), they will be executed
523 immediately, without terminating any processes or unmounting any file systems. Warning: specifying
524 <option>--force
</option> twice with any of these operations might result in data loss. Note that when
525 <option>--force
</option> is specified twice the selected operation is executed by
526 <command>systemctl
</command> itself, and the system manager is not contacted. This means the command should
527 succeed even when the system manager hangs or crashed.
</para>
532 <term><option>--message=
</option></term>
535 <para>When used with
<command>halt
</command>,
536 <command>poweroff
</command>,
<command>reboot
</command> or
537 <command>kexec
</command>, set a short message explaining the reason
538 for the operation. The message will be logged together with the
539 default shutdown message.
</para>
544 <term><option>--now
</option></term>
547 <para>When used with
<command>enable
</command>, the units
548 will also be started. When used with
<command>disable
</command> or
549 <command>mask
</command>, the units will also be stopped. The start
550 or stop operation is only carried out when the respective enable or
551 disable operation has been successful.
</para>
556 <term><option>--root=
</option></term>
560 <command>enable
</command>/
<command>disable
</command>/
<command>is-enabled
</command>
561 (and related commands), use the specified root path when looking for unit
562 files. If this option is present,
<command>systemctl
</command> will operate on
563 the file system directly, instead of communicating with the
<command>systemd
</command>
564 daemon to carry out changes.
</para>
570 <term><option>--runtime
</option></term>
573 <para>When used with
<command>enable
</command>,
574 <command>disable
</command>,
<command>edit
</command>,
575 (and related commands), make changes only temporarily, so
576 that they are lost on the next reboot. This will have the
577 effect that changes are not made in subdirectories of
578 <filename>/etc
</filename> but in
<filename>/run
</filename>,
579 with identical immediate effects, however, since the latter
580 is lost on reboot, the changes are lost too.
</para>
582 <para>Similarly, when used with
583 <command>set-property
</command>, make changes only
584 temporarily, so that they are lost on the next
590 <term><option>--preset-mode=
</option></term>
593 <para>Takes one of
<literal>full
</literal> (the default),
594 <literal>enable-only
</literal>,
595 <literal>disable-only
</literal>. When used with the
596 <command>preset
</command> or
<command>preset-all
</command>
597 commands, controls whether units shall be disabled and
598 enabled according to the preset rules, or only enabled, or
599 only disabled.
</para>
604 <term><option>-n
</option></term>
605 <term><option>--lines=
</option></term>
608 <para>When used with
<command>status
</command>, controls the
609 number of journal lines to show, counting from the most
610 recent ones. Takes a positive integer argument. Defaults to
616 <term><option>-o
</option></term>
617 <term><option>--output=
</option></term>
620 <para>When used with
<command>status
</command>, controls the
621 formatting of the journal entries that are shown. For the
622 available choices, see
623 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
624 Defaults to
<literal>short
</literal>.
</para>
629 <term><option>--firmware-setup
</option></term>
632 <para>When used with the
<command>reboot
</command> command,
633 indicate to the system's firmware to boot into setup
634 mode. Note that this is currently only supported on some EFI
635 systems and only if the system was booted in EFI
641 <term><option>--plain
</option></term>
644 <para>When used with
<command>list-dependencies
</command>,
645 <command>list-units
</command> or
<command>list-machines
</command>,
646 the output is printed as a list instead of a tree, and the bullet
647 circles are omitted.
</para>
651 <xi:include href=
"user-system-options.xml" xpointer=
"host" />
652 <xi:include href=
"user-system-options.xml" xpointer=
"machine" />
654 <xi:include href=
"standard-options.xml" xpointer=
"no-pager" />
655 <xi:include href=
"standard-options.xml" xpointer=
"no-legend" />
656 <xi:include href=
"standard-options.xml" xpointer=
"help" />
657 <xi:include href=
"standard-options.xml" xpointer=
"version" />
662 <title>Commands
</title>
664 <para>The following commands are understood:
</para>
667 <title>Unit Commands
</title>
671 <term><command>list-units
<optional><replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</optional></command></term>
674 <para>List units that
<command>systemd
</command> currently has in memory. This includes units that are
675 either referenced directly or through a dependency, units that are pinned by applications programmatically,
676 or units that were active in the past and have failed. By default only units which are active, have pending
677 jobs, or have failed are shown; this can be changed with option
<option>--all
</option>. If one or more
678 <replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>s are specified, only units matching one of them are shown. The units
679 that are shown are additionally filtered by
<option>--type=
</option> and
<option>--state=
</option> if those
680 options are specified.
</para>
682 <para>This is the default command.
</para>
687 <term><command>list-sockets
<optional><replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</optional></command></term>
690 <para>List socket units currently in memory, ordered by listening address. If one or more
691 <replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>s are specified, only socket units matching one of them are
692 shown. Produces output similar to
694 LISTEN UNIT ACTIVATES
695 /dev/initctl systemd-initctl.socket systemd-initctl.service
697 [::]:
22 sshd.socket sshd.service
698 kobject-uevent
1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
700 5 sockets listed.
</programlisting>
701 Note: because the addresses might contains spaces, this output
702 is not suitable for programmatic consumption.
705 <para>Also see
<option>--show-types
</option>,
<option>--all
</option>, and
<option>--state=
</option>.
</para>
710 <term><command>list-timers
<optional><replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</optional></command></term>
713 <para>List timer units currently in memory, ordered by the time they elapse next. If one or more
714 <replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>s are specified, only units matching one of them are shown.
715 Produces output similar to
717 NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES
718 n/a n/a Thu
2017-
02-
23 13:
40:
29 EST
3 days ago ureadahead-stop.timer ureadahead-stop.service
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725 <para><emphasis>NEXT
</emphasis> shows the next time the timer will run.
</para>
726 <para><emphasis>LEFT
</emphasis> shows how long till the next time the timer runs.
</para>
727 <para><emphasis>LAST
</emphasis> shows the last time the timer ran.
</para>
728 <para><emphasis>PASSED
</emphasis> shows has long as passed since the timer laset ran.
</para>
729 <para><emphasis>UNIT
</emphasis> shows the name of the timer
</para>
730 <para><emphasis>ACTIVATES
</emphasis> shows the the name the service the timer activates when it runs.
</para>
732 <para>Also see
<option>--all
</option> and
<option>--state=
</option>.
</para>
737 <term><command>start
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
740 <para>Start (activate) one or more units specified on the
743 <para>Note that glob patterns operate on the set of primary names of units currently in memory. Units which
744 are not active and are not in a failed state usually are not in memory, and will not be matched by any
745 pattern. In addition, in case of instantiated units, systemd is often unaware of the instance name until
746 the instance has been started. Therefore, using glob patterns with
<command>start
</command> has limited
747 usefulness. Also, secondary alias names of units are not considered.
</para>
751 <term><command>stop
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
754 <para>Stop (deactivate) one or more units specified on the
759 <term><command>reload
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
762 <para>Asks all units listed on the command line to reload
763 their configuration. Note that this will reload the
764 service-specific configuration, not the unit configuration
765 file of systemd. If you want systemd to reload the
766 configuration file of a unit, use the
767 <command>daemon-reload
</command> command. In other words:
768 for the example case of Apache, this will reload Apache's
769 <filename>httpd.conf
</filename> in the web server, not the
770 <filename>apache.service
</filename> systemd unit
773 <para>This command should not be confused with the
774 <command>daemon-reload
</command> command.
</para>
779 <term><command>restart
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
782 <para>Stop and then start one or more units specified on the
783 command line. If the units are not running yet, they will
788 <term><command>try-restart
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
791 <para>Stop and then start one or more units specified on the
792 command line if the units are running. This does nothing
793 if units are not running.
</para>
794 <!-- Note that we don't document condrestart here, as that is just compatibility support, and we generally
795 don't document that. -->
799 <term><command>reload-or-restart
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
802 <para>Reload one or more units if they support it. If not,
803 restart them instead. If the units are not running yet, they
804 will be started.
</para>
808 <term><command>try-reload-or-restart
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
811 <para>Reload one or more units if they support it. If not,
812 restart them instead. This does nothing if the units are not
814 <!-- Note that we don't document force-reload here, as that is just compatibility support, and we generally
815 don't document that. -->
819 <term><command>isolate
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable></command></term>
822 <para>Start the unit specified on the command line and its
823 dependencies and stop all others. If a unit name with no
824 extension is given, an extension of
825 <literal>.target
</literal> will be assumed.
</para>
827 <para>This is similar to changing the runlevel in a
828 traditional init system. The
<command>isolate
</command>
829 command will immediately stop processes that are not enabled
830 in the new unit, possibly including the graphical
831 environment or terminal you are currently using.
</para>
833 <para>Note that this is allowed only on units where
834 <option>AllowIsolate=
</option> is enabled. See
835 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
840 <term><command>kill
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
843 <para>Send a signal to one or more processes of the
844 unit. Use
<option>--kill-who=
</option> to select which
845 process to kill. Use
<option>--signal=
</option> to select
846 the signal to send.
</para>
850 <term><command>is-active
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
853 <para>Check whether any of the specified units are active
854 (i.e. running). Returns an exit code
855 <constant>0</constant> if at least one is active, or
856 non-zero otherwise. Unless
<option>--quiet
</option> is
857 specified, this will also print the current unit state to
858 standard output.
</para>
862 <term><command>is-failed
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
865 <para>Check whether any of the specified units are in a
866 "failed" state. Returns an exit code
867 <constant>0</constant> if at least one has failed,
868 non-zero otherwise. Unless
<option>--quiet
</option> is
869 specified, this will also print the current unit state to
870 standard output.
</para>
874 <term><command>status
</command> <optional><replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…|
<replaceable>PID
</replaceable>…]
</optional></term>
877 <para>Show terse runtime status information about one or
878 more units, followed by most recent log data from the
879 journal. If no units are specified, show system status. If
880 combined with
<option>--all
</option>, also show the status of
881 all units (subject to limitations specified with
882 <option>-t
</option>). If a PID is passed, show information
883 about the unit the process belongs to.
</para>
885 <para>This function is intended to generate human-readable
886 output. If you are looking for computer-parsable output,
887 use
<command>show
</command> instead. By default, this
888 function only shows
10 lines of output and ellipsizes
889 lines to fit in the terminal window. This can be changed
890 with
<option>--lines
</option> and
<option>--full
</option>,
891 see above. In addition,
<command>journalctl
892 --unit=
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable></command> or
894 --user-unit=
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable></command> use
895 a similar filter for messages and might be more
899 <para>Systemd implicitly loads units as necessary, so just running the
<command>status
</command> will
900 attempt to load a file. The command is thus not useful for determining if something was already loaded or
901 not. The units may possibly also be quickly unloaded after the operation is completed if there's no reason
902 to keep it in memory thereafter.
906 <title>Example output from systemctl status
</title>
908 <programlisting>$ systemctl status bluetooth
909 â—Ź bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
910 Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
911 Active: active (running) since Wed
2017-
01-
04 13:
54:
04 EST;
1 weeks
0 days ago
912 Docs: man:bluetoothd(
8)
913 Main PID:
930 (bluetoothd)
918 CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
919 └─
930 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd
921 Jan
12 10:
46:
45 example.com bluetoothd[
8900]: Not enough free handles to register service
922 Jan
12 10:
46:
45 example.com bluetoothd[
8900]: Current Time Service could not be registered
923 Jan
12 10:
46:
45 example.com bluetoothd[
8900]: gatt-time-server: Input/output error (
5)
926 <para>The dot (
"â—Ź") uses color on supported terminals to summarize the unit state at a glance. White
927 indicates an
<literal>inactive
</literal> or
<literal>deactivating
</literal> state. Red indicates a
928 <literal>failed
</literal> or
<literal>error
</literal> state and green indicates an
929 <literal>active
</literal>,
<literal>reloading
</literal> or
<literal>activating
</literal> state.
932 <para>The
"Loaded:" line in the output will show
<literal>loaded
</literal> if the unit has been loaded into
933 memory. Other possible values for
"Loaded:" include:
<literal>error
</literal> if there was a problem
934 loading it,
<literal>not-found
</literal>, and
<literal>masked
</literal>. Along with showing the path to
935 the unit file, this line will also show the enablement state. Enabled commands start at boot. See the
936 full table of possible enablement states — including the definition of
<literal>masked
</literal> — in the
937 documentation for the
<command>is-enabled
</command> command.
940 <para>The
"Active:" line shows active state. The value is usually
<literal>active
</literal> or
941 <literal>inactive
</literal>. Active could mean started, bound, plugged in, etc depending on the unit type.
942 The unit could also be in process of changing states, reporting a state of
<literal>activating
</literal> or
943 <literal>deactivating
</literal>. A special
<literal>failed
</literal> state is entered when the service
944 failed in some way, such as a crash, exiting with an error code or timing out. If the failed state is
945 entered the cause will be logged for later reference.
</para>
951 <term><command>show
</command> <optional><replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…|
<replaceable>JOB
</replaceable>…
</optional></term>
954 <para>Show properties of one or more units, jobs, or the manager itself. If no argument is specified,
955 properties of the manager will be shown. If a unit name is specified, properties of the unit are shown, and
956 if a job ID is specified, properties of the job are shown. By default, empty properties are suppressed. Use
957 <option>--all
</option> to show those too. To select specific properties to show, use
958 <option>--property=
</option>. This command is intended to be used whenever computer-parsable output is
959 required. Use
<command>status
</command> if you are looking for formatted human-readable output.
</para>
961 <para>Many properties shown by
<command>systemctl show
</command> map directly to configuration settings of
962 the system and service manager and its unit files. Note that the properties shown by the command are
963 generally more low-level, normalized versions of the original configuration settings and expose runtime
964 state in addition to configuration. For example, properties shown for service units include the service's
965 current main process identifier as
<literal>MainPID
</literal> (which is runtime state), and time settings
966 are always exposed as properties ending in the
<literal>…USec
</literal> suffix even if a matching
967 configuration options end in
<literal>…Sec
</literal>, because microseconds is the normalized time unit used
968 by the system and service manager.
</para>
972 <term><command>cat
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
975 <para>Show backing files of one or more units. Prints the
976 "fragment" and
"drop-ins" (source files) of units. Each
977 file is preceded by a comment which includes the file
978 name. Note that this shows the contents of the backing files
979 on disk, which may not match the system manager's
980 understanding of these units if any unit files were
981 updated on disk and the
<command>daemon-reload
</command>
982 command wasn't issued since.
</para>
986 <term><command>set-property
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable> <replaceable>ASSIGNMENT
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
989 <para>Set the specified unit properties at runtime where
990 this is supported. This allows changing configuration
991 parameter properties such as resource control settings at
992 runtime. Not all properties may be changed at runtime, but
993 many resource control settings (primarily those in
994 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
995 may. The changes are applied instantly, and stored on disk
996 for future boots, unless
<option>--runtime
</option> is
997 passed, in which case the settings only apply until the
998 next reboot. The syntax of the property assignment follows
999 closely the syntax of assignments in unit files.
</para>
1001 <para>Example:
<command>systemctl set-property foobar.service CPUShares=
777</command></para>
1003 <para>If the specified unit appears to be inactive, the
1004 changes will be only stored on disk as described
1005 previously hence they will be effective when the unit will
1008 <para>Note that this command allows changing multiple
1009 properties at the same time, which is preferable over
1010 setting them individually. Like unit file configuration
1011 settings, assigning the empty list to list parameters will
1012 reset the list.
</para>
1017 <term><command>help
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…|
<replaceable>PID
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1020 <para>Show manual pages for one or more units, if
1021 available. If a PID is given, the manual pages for the unit
1022 the process belongs to are shown.
</para>
1027 <term><command>reset-failed [
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…]
</command></term>
1030 <para>Reset the
<literal>failed
</literal> state of the
1031 specified units, or if no unit name is passed, reset the state of all
1032 units. When a unit fails in some way (i.e. process exiting
1033 with non-zero error code, terminating abnormally or timing
1034 out), it will automatically enter the
1035 <literal>failed
</literal> state and its exit code and status
1036 is recorded for introspection by the administrator until the
1037 service is restarted or reset with this command.
</para>
1043 <command>list-dependencies
</command>
1044 <optional><replaceable>NAME
</replaceable></optional>
1048 <para>Shows units required and wanted by the specified
1049 unit. This recursively lists units following the
1050 <varname>Requires=
</varname>,
1051 <varname>Requisite=
</varname>,
1052 <varname>ConsistsOf=
</varname>,
1053 <varname>Wants=
</varname>,
<varname>BindsTo=
</varname>
1054 dependencies. If no unit is specified,
1055 <filename>default.target
</filename> is implied.
</para>
1057 <para>By default, only target units are recursively
1058 expanded. When
<option>--all
</option> is passed, all other
1059 units are recursively expanded as well.
</para>
1061 <para>Options
<option>--reverse
</option>,
1062 <option>--after
</option>,
<option>--before
</option>
1063 may be used to change what types of dependencies
1071 <title>Unit File Commands
</title>
1075 <term><command>list-unit-files
<optional><replaceable>PATTERN…
</replaceable></optional></command></term>
1078 <para>List unit files installed on the system, in combination with their enablement state (as reported by
1079 <command>is-enabled
</command>). If one or more
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>s are specified, only unit
1080 files whose name matches one of them are shown (patterns matching unit file system paths are not
1086 <term><command>enable
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1087 <term><command>enable
<replaceable>PATH
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1090 <para>Enable one or more units or unit instances. This will create a set of symlinks, as encoded in the
1091 <literal>[Install]
</literal> sections of the indicated unit files. After the symlinks have been created,
1092 the system manager configuration is reloaded (in a way equivalent to
<command>daemon-reload
</command>), in
1093 order to ensure the changes are taken into account immediately. Note that this does
1094 <emphasis>not
</emphasis> have the effect of also starting any of the units being enabled. If this is
1095 desired, combine this command with the
<option>--now
</option> switch, or invoke
<command>start
</command>
1096 with appropriate arguments later. Note that in case of unit instance enablement (i.e. enablement of units of
1097 the form
<filename>foo@bar.service
</filename>), symlinks named the same as instances are created in the
1098 unit configuration directory, however they point to the single template unit file they are instantiated
1101 <para>This command expects either valid unit names (in which case various unit file directories are
1102 automatically searched for unit files with appropriate names), or absolute paths to unit files (in which
1103 case these files are read directly). If a specified unit file is located outside of the usual unit file
1104 directories, an additional symlink is created, linking it into the unit configuration path, thus ensuring
1105 it is found when requested by commands such as
<command>start
</command>.
</para>
1107 <para>This command will print the file system operations executed. This output may be suppressed by passing
1108 <option>--quiet
</option>.
1111 <para>Note that this operation creates only the symlinks suggested in the
<literal>[Install]
</literal>
1112 section of the unit files. While this command is the recommended way to manipulate the unit configuration
1113 directory, the administrator is free to make additional changes manually by placing or removing symlinks
1114 below this directory. This is particularly useful to create configurations that deviate from the suggested
1115 default installation. In this case, the administrator must make sure to invoke
1116 <command>daemon-reload
</command> manually as necessary, in order to ensure the changes are taken into
1120 <para>Enabling units should not be confused with starting (activating) units, as done by the
1121 <command>start
</command> command. Enabling and starting units is orthogonal: units may be enabled without
1122 being started and started without being enabled. Enabling simply hooks the unit into various suggested
1123 places (for example, so that the unit is automatically started on boot or when a particular kind of
1124 hardware is plugged in). Starting actually spawns the daemon process (in case of service units), or binds
1125 the socket (in case of socket units), and so on.
</para>
1127 <para>Depending on whether
<option>--system
</option>,
<option>--user
</option>,
<option>--runtime
</option>,
1128 or
<option>--global
</option> is specified, this enables the unit for the system, for the calling user only,
1129 for only this boot of the system, or for all future logins of all users, or only this boot. Note that in
1130 the last case, no systemd daemon configuration is reloaded.
</para>
1132 <para>Using
<command>enable
</command> on masked units is not supported and results in an error.
</para>
1137 <term><command>disable
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1140 <para>Disables one or more units. This removes all symlinks to the unit files backing the specified units
1141 from the unit configuration directory, and hence undoes any changes made by
<command>enable
</command> or
1142 <command>link
</command>. Note that this removes
<emphasis>all
</emphasis> symlinks to matching unit files,
1143 including manually created symlinks, and not just those actually created by
<command>enable
</command> or
1144 <command>link
</command>. Note that while
<command>disable
</command> undoes the effect of
1145 <command>enable
</command>, the two commands are otherwise not symmetric, as
<command>disable
</command> may
1146 remove more symlinks than a prior
<command>enable
</command> invocation of the same unit created.
</para>
1148 <para>This command expects valid unit names only, it does not accept paths to unit files.
</para>
1150 <para>In addition to the units specified as arguments, all units are disabled that are listed in the
1151 <varname>Also=
</varname> setting contained in the
<literal>[Install]
</literal> section of any of the unit
1152 files being operated on.
</para>
1154 <para>This command implicitly reloads the system manager configuration after completing the operation. Note
1155 that this command does not implicitly stop the units that are being disabled. If this is desired, either
1156 combine this command with the
<option>--now
</option> switch, or invoke the
<command>stop
</command> command
1157 with appropriate arguments later.
</para>
1159 <para>This command will print information about the file system operations (symlink removals)
1160 executed. This output may be suppressed by passing
<option>--quiet
</option>.
1163 <para>This command honors
<option>--system
</option>,
<option>--user
</option>,
<option>--runtime
</option>
1164 and
<option>--global
</option> in a similar way as
<command>enable
</command>.
</para>
1169 <term><command>reenable
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1172 <para>Reenable one or more units, as specified on the command line. This is a combination of
1173 <command>disable
</command> and
<command>enable
</command> and is useful to reset the symlinks a unit file is
1174 enabled with to the defaults configured in its
<literal>[Install]
</literal> section. This command expects
1175 a unit name only, it does not accept paths to unit files.
</para>
1180 <term><command>preset
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1183 <para>Reset the enable/disable status one or more unit files, as specified on
1184 the command line, to the defaults configured in the preset policy files. This
1185 has the same effect as
<command>disable
</command> or
1186 <command>enable
</command>, depending how the unit is listed in the preset
1189 <para>Use
<option>--preset-mode=
</option> to control whether units shall be
1190 enabled and disabled, or only enabled, or only disabled.
</para>
1192 <para>If the unit carries no install information, it will be silently ignored
1193 by this command.
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable> must be the real unit name,
1194 any alias names are ignored silently.
</para>
1196 <para>For more information on the preset policy format, see
1197 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.preset
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
1198 For more information on the concept of presets, please consult the
1199 <ulink url=
"https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Preset">Preset
</ulink>
1205 <term><command>preset-all
</command></term>
1208 <para>Resets all installed unit files to the defaults
1209 configured in the preset policy file (see above).
</para>
1211 <para>Use
<option>--preset-mode=
</option> to control
1212 whether units shall be enabled and disabled, or only
1213 enabled, or only disabled.
</para>
1218 <term><command>is-enabled
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1221 <para>Checks whether any of the specified unit files are
1222 enabled (as with
<command>enable
</command>). Returns an
1223 exit code of
0 if at least one is enabled, non-zero
1224 otherwise. Prints the current enable status (see table).
1225 To suppress this output, use
<option>--quiet
</option>.
1226 To show installation targets, use
<option>--full
</option>.
1231 <command>is-enabled
</command> output
1238 <entry>Description
</entry>
1239 <entry>Exit Code
</entry>
1244 <entry><literal>enabled
</literal></entry>
1245 <entry morerows='
1'
>Enabled via
<filename>.wants/
</filename>,
<filename>.requires/
</filename> or alias symlinks (permanently in
<filename>/etc/systemd/system/
</filename>, or transiently in
<filename>/run/systemd/system/
</filename>).
</entry>
1246 <entry morerows='
1'
>0</entry>
1249 <entry><literal>enabled-runtime
</literal></entry>
1252 <entry><literal>linked
</literal></entry>
1253 <entry morerows='
1'
>Made available through one or more symlinks to the unit file (permanently in
<filename>/etc/systemd/system/
</filename> or transiently in
<filename>/run/systemd/system/
</filename>), even though the unit file might reside outside of the unit file search path.
</entry>
1254 <entry morerows='
1'
>> 0</entry>
1257 <entry><literal>linked-runtime
</literal></entry>
1260 <entry><literal>masked
</literal></entry>
1261 <entry morerows='
1'
>Completely disabled, so that any start operation on it fails (permanently in
<filename>/etc/systemd/system/
</filename> or transiently in
<filename>/run/systemd/systemd/
</filename>).
</entry>
1262 <entry morerows='
1'
>> 0</entry>
1265 <entry><literal>masked-runtime
</literal></entry>
1268 <entry><literal>static
</literal></entry>
1269 <entry>The unit file is not enabled, and has no provisions for enabling in the
<literal>[Install]
</literal> unit file section.
</entry>
1273 <entry><literal>indirect
</literal></entry>
1274 <entry>The unit file itself is not enabled, but it has a non-empty
<varname>Also=
</varname> setting in the
<literal>[Install]
</literal> unit file section, listing other unit files that might be enabled.
</entry>
1278 <entry><literal>disabled
</literal></entry>
1279 <entry>The unit file is not enabled, but contains an
<literal>[Install]
</literal> section with installation instructions.
</entry>
1280 <entry>> 0</entry>
1283 <entry><literal>generated
</literal></entry>
1284 <entry>The unit file was generated dynamically via a generator tool. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.generator
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Generated unit files may not be enabled, they are enabled implicitly by their generator.
</entry>
1288 <entry><literal>transient
</literal></entry>
1289 <entry>The unit file has been created dynamically with the runtime API. Transient units may not be enabled.
</entry>
1293 <entry><literal>bad
</literal></entry>
1294 <entry>The unit file is invalid or another error occurred. Note that
<command>is-enabled
</command> will not actually return this state, but print an error message instead. However the unit file listing printed by
<command>list-unit-files
</command> might show it.
</entry>
1295 <entry>> 0</entry>
1305 <term><command>mask
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1308 <para>Mask one or more units, as specified on the command line. This will link these unit files to
1309 <filename>/dev/null
</filename>, making it impossible to start them. This is a stronger version of
1310 <command>disable
</command>, since it prohibits all kinds of activation of the unit, including enablement
1311 and manual activation. Use this option with care. This honors the
<option>--runtime
</option> option to only
1312 mask temporarily until the next reboot of the system. The
<option>--now
</option> option may be used to
1313 ensure that the units are also stopped. This command expects valid unit names only, it does not accept unit
1319 <term><command>unmask
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1322 <para>Unmask one or more unit files, as specified on the command line. This will undo the effect of
1323 <command>mask
</command>. This command expects valid unit names only, it does not accept unit file
1329 <term><command>link
<replaceable>PATH
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1332 <para>Link a unit file that is not in the unit file search paths into the unit file search path. This
1333 command expects an absolute path to a unit file. The effect of this may be undone with
1334 <command>disable
</command>. The effect of this command is that a unit file is made available for commands
1335 such as
<command>start
</command>, even though it is not installed directly in the unit search path.
</para>
1340 <term><command>revert
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1343 <para>Revert one or more unit files to their vendor versions. This command removes drop-in configuration
1344 files that modify the specified units, as well as any user-configured unit file that overrides a matching
1345 vendor supplied unit file. Specifically, for a unit
<literal>foo.service
</literal> the matching directories
1346 <literal>foo.service.d/
</literal> with all their contained files are removed, both below the persistent and
1347 runtime configuration directories (i.e. below
<filename>/etc/systemd/system
</filename> and
1348 <filename>/run/systemd/system
</filename>); if the unit file has a vendor-supplied version (i.e. a unit file
1349 located below
<filename>/usr
</filename>) any matching persistent or runtime unit file that overrides it is
1350 removed, too. Note that if a unit file has no vendor-supplied version (i.e. is only defined below
1351 <filename>/etc/systemd/system
</filename> or
<filename>/run/systemd/system
</filename>, but not in a unit
1352 file stored below
<filename>/usr
</filename>), then it is not removed. Also, if a unit is masked, it is
1355 <para>Effectively, this command may be used to undo all changes made with
<command>systemctl
1356 edit
</command>,
<command>systemctl set-property
</command> and
<command>systemctl mask
</command> and puts
1357 the original unit file with its settings back in effect.
</para>
1362 <term><command>add-wants
<replaceable>TARGET
</replaceable>
1363 <replaceable>NAME
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1364 <term><command>add-requires
<replaceable>TARGET
</replaceable>
1365 <replaceable>NAME
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1368 <para>Adds
<literal>Wants=
</literal> or
<literal>Requires=
</literal>
1369 dependencies, respectively, to the specified
1370 <replaceable>TARGET
</replaceable> for one or more units.
</para>
1372 <para>This command honors
<option>--system
</option>,
1373 <option>--user
</option>,
<option>--runtime
</option> and
1374 <option>--global
</option> in a way similar to
1375 <command>enable
</command>.
</para>
1381 <term><command>edit
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1384 <para>Edit a drop-in snippet or a whole replacement file if
1385 <option>--full
</option> is specified, to extend or override the
1386 specified unit.
</para>
1388 <para>Depending on whether
<option>--system
</option> (the default),
1389 <option>--user
</option>, or
<option>--global
</option> is specified,
1390 this command creates a drop-in file for each unit either for the system,
1391 for the calling user, or for all futures logins of all users. Then,
1392 the editor (see the
"Environment" section below) is invoked on
1393 temporary files which will be written to the real location if the
1394 editor exits successfully.
</para>
1396 <para>If
<option>--full
</option> is specified, this will copy the
1397 original units instead of creating drop-in files.
</para>
1399 <para>If
<option>--force
</option> is specified and any units do
1400 not already exist, new unit files will be opened for editing.
</para>
1402 <para>If
<option>--runtime
</option> is specified, the changes will
1403 be made temporarily in
<filename>/run
</filename> and they will be
1404 lost on the next reboot.
</para>
1406 <para>If the temporary file is empty upon exit, the modification of
1407 the related unit is canceled.
</para>
1409 <para>After the units have been edited, systemd configuration is
1410 reloaded (in a way that is equivalent to
<command>daemon-reload
</command>).
1413 <para>Note that this command cannot be used to remotely edit units
1414 and that you cannot temporarily edit units which are in
1415 <filename>/etc
</filename>, since they take precedence over
1416 <filename>/run
</filename>.
</para>
1421 <term><command>get-default
</command></term>
1424 <para>Return the default target to boot into. This returns
1425 the target unit name
<filename>default.target
</filename>
1426 is aliased (symlinked) to.
</para>
1431 <term><command>set-default
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable></command></term>
1434 <para>Set the default target to boot into. This sets
1435 (symlinks) the
<filename>default.target
</filename> alias
1436 to the given target unit.
</para>
1444 <title>Machine Commands
</title>
1448 <term><command>list-machines
<optional><replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…
</optional></command></term>
1451 <para>List the host and all running local containers with
1452 their state. If one or more
1453 <replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>s are specified, only
1454 containers matching one of them are shown.
1462 <title>Job Commands
</title>
1466 <term><command>list-jobs
<optional><replaceable>PATTERN…
</replaceable></optional></command></term>
1469 <para>List jobs that are in progress. If one or more
1470 <replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>s are specified, only
1471 jobs for units matching one of them are shown.
</para>
1473 <para>When combined with
<option>--after
</option> or
<option>--before
</option> the list is augmented with
1474 information on which other job each job is waiting for, and which other jobs are waiting for it, see
1479 <term><command>cancel
<replaceable>JOB
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1482 <para>Cancel one or more jobs specified on the command line
1483 by their numeric job IDs. If no job ID is specified, cancel
1484 all pending jobs.
</para>
1491 <title>Environment Commands
</title>
1495 <term><command>show-environment
</command></term>
1498 <para>Dump the systemd manager environment block. This is the environment
1499 block that is passed to all processes the manager spawns. The environment
1500 block will be dumped in straight-forward form suitable for sourcing into
1501 most shells. If no special characters or whitespace is present in the variable
1502 values, no escaping is performed, and the assignments have the form
1503 <literal>VARIABLE=value
</literal>. If whitespace or characters which have
1504 special meaning to the shell are present, dollar-single-quote escaping is
1505 used, and assignments have the form
<literal>VARIABLE=$'value'
</literal>.
1506 This syntax is known to be supported by
1507 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>bash
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1508 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>zsh
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1509 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>ksh
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1511 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>busybox
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>'s
1512 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>ash
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1514 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>dash
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1516 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>fish
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
1521 <term><command>set-environment
<replaceable>VARIABLE=VALUE
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1524 <para>Set one or more systemd manager environment variables,
1525 as specified on the command line.
</para>
1529 <term><command>unset-environment
<replaceable>VARIABLE
</replaceable>…
</command></term>
1532 <para>Unset one or more systemd manager environment
1533 variables. If only a variable name is specified, it will be
1534 removed regardless of its value. If a variable and a value
1535 are specified, the variable is only removed if it has the
1536 specified value.
</para>
1541 <command>import-environment
</command>
1542 <optional><replaceable>VARIABLE…
</replaceable></optional>
1546 <para>Import all, one or more environment variables set on
1547 the client into the systemd manager environment block. If
1548 no arguments are passed, the entire environment block is
1549 imported. Otherwise, a list of one or more environment
1550 variable names should be passed, whose client-side values
1551 are then imported into the manager's environment
1559 <title>Manager Lifecycle Commands
</title>
1563 <term><command>daemon-reload
</command></term>
1566 <para>Reload the systemd manager configuration. This will
1567 rerun all generators (see
1568 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.generator
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>),
1569 reload all unit files, and recreate the entire dependency
1570 tree. While the daemon is being reloaded, all sockets
1571 systemd listens on behalf of user configuration will stay
1574 <para>This command should not be confused with the
1575 <command>reload
</command> command.
</para>
1579 <term><command>daemon-reexec
</command></term>
1582 <para>Reexecute the systemd manager. This will serialize the
1583 manager state, reexecute the process and deserialize the
1584 state again. This command is of little use except for
1585 debugging and package upgrades. Sometimes, it might be
1586 helpful as a heavy-weight
<command>daemon-reload
</command>.
1587 While the daemon is being reexecuted, all sockets systemd listening
1588 on behalf of user configuration will stay accessible.
1596 <title>System Commands
</title>
1600 <term><command>is-system-running
</command></term>
1603 <para>Checks whether the system is operational. This
1604 returns success (exit code
0) when the system is fully up
1605 and running, specifically not in startup, shutdown or
1606 maintenance mode, and with no failed services. Failure is
1607 returned otherwise (exit code non-zero). In addition, the
1608 current state is printed in a short string to standard
1609 output, see the table below. Use
<option>--quiet
</option> to
1610 suppress this output.
</para>
1613 <title><command>is-system-running
</command> output
</title>
1615 <colspec colname='name'
/>
1616 <colspec colname='description'
/>
1617 <colspec colname='exit-code'
/>
1621 <entry>Description
</entry>
1622 <entry>Exit Code
</entry>
1627 <entry><varname>initializing
</varname></entry>
1628 <entry><para>Early bootup, before
1629 <filename>basic.target
</filename> is reached
1630 or the
<varname>maintenance
</varname> state entered.
1632 <entry>> 0</entry>
1635 <entry><varname>starting
</varname></entry>
1636 <entry><para>Late bootup, before the job queue
1637 becomes idle for the first time, or one of the
1638 rescue targets are reached.
</para></entry>
1639 <entry>> 0</entry>
1642 <entry><varname>running
</varname></entry>
1643 <entry><para>The system is fully
1644 operational.
</para></entry>
1648 <entry><varname>degraded
</varname></entry>
1649 <entry><para>The system is operational but one or more
1650 units failed.
</para></entry>
1651 <entry>> 0</entry>
1654 <entry><varname>maintenance
</varname></entry>
1655 <entry><para>The rescue or emergency target is
1656 active.
</para></entry>
1657 <entry>> 0</entry>
1660 <entry><varname>stopping
</varname></entry>
1661 <entry><para>The manager is shutting
1662 down.
</para></entry>
1663 <entry>> 0</entry>
1666 <entry><varname>offline
</varname></entry>
1667 <entry><para>The manager is not
1668 running. Specifically, this is the operational
1669 state if an incompatible program is running as
1670 system manager (PID
1).
</para></entry>
1671 <entry>> 0</entry>
1674 <entry><varname>unknown
</varname></entry>
1675 <entry><para>The operational state could not be
1676 determined, due to lack of resources or another
1677 error cause.
</para></entry>
1678 <entry>> 0</entry>
1687 <term><command>default
</command></term>
1690 <para>Enter default mode. This is mostly equivalent to
1691 <command>isolate default.target
</command>.
</para>
1696 <term><command>rescue
</command></term>
1699 <para>Enter rescue mode. This is mostly equivalent to
1700 <command>isolate rescue.target
</command>, but also prints a
1701 wall message to all users.
</para>
1705 <term><command>emergency
</command></term>
1708 <para>Enter emergency mode. This is mostly equivalent to
1709 <command>isolate emergency.target
</command>, but also prints
1710 a wall message to all users.
</para>
1714 <term><command>halt
</command></term>
1717 <para>Shut down and halt the system. This is mostly equivalent to
<command>start halt.target
1718 --job-mode=replace-irreversibly
</command>, but also prints a wall message to all users. If combined with
1719 <option>--force
</option>, shutdown of all running services is skipped, however all processes are killed and
1720 all file systems are unmounted or mounted read-only, immediately followed by the system halt. If
1721 <option>--force
</option> is specified twice, the operation is immediately executed without terminating any
1722 processes or unmounting any file systems. This may result in data loss. Note that when
1723 <option>--force
</option> is specified twice the halt operation is executed by
1724 <command>systemctl
</command> itself, and the system manager is not contacted. This means the command should
1725 succeed even when the system manager hangs or crashed.
</para>
1729 <term><command>poweroff
</command></term>
1732 <para>Shut down and power-off the system. This is mostly equivalent to
<command>start poweroff.target
1733 --job-mode=replace-irreversibly
</command>, but also prints a wall message to all users. If combined with
1734 <option>--force
</option>, shutdown of all running services is skipped, however all processes are killed and
1735 all file systems are unmounted or mounted read-only, immediately followed by the powering off. If
1736 <option>--force
</option> is specified twice, the operation is immediately executed without terminating any
1737 processes or unmounting any file systems. This may result in data loss. Note that when
1738 <option>--force
</option> is specified twice the power-off operation is executed by
1739 <command>systemctl
</command> itself, and the system manager is not contacted. This means the command should
1740 succeed even when the system manager hangs or crashed.
</para>
1744 <term><command>reboot
<optional><replaceable>arg
</replaceable></optional></command></term>
1747 <para>Shut down and reboot the system. This is mostly equivalent to
<command>start reboot.target
1748 --job-mode=replace-irreversibly
</command>, but also prints a wall message to all users. If combined with
1749 <option>--force
</option>, shutdown of all running services is skipped, however all processes are killed and
1750 all file systems are unmounted or mounted read-only, immediately followed by the reboot. If
1751 <option>--force
</option> is specified twice, the operation is immediately executed without terminating any
1752 processes or unmounting any file systems. This may result in data loss. Note that when
1753 <option>--force
</option> is specified twice the reboot operation is executed by
1754 <command>systemctl
</command> itself, and the system manager is not contacted. This means the command should
1755 succeed even when the system manager hangs or crashed.
</para>
1757 <para>If the optional argument
1758 <replaceable>arg
</replaceable> is given, it will be passed
1759 as the optional argument to the
1760 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>reboot
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1761 system call. The value is architecture and firmware
1762 specific. As an example,
<literal>recovery
</literal> might
1763 be used to trigger system recovery, and
1764 <literal>fota
</literal> might be used to trigger a
1765 <quote>firmware over the air
</quote> update.
</para>
1770 <term><command>kexec
</command></term>
1773 <para>Shut down and reboot the system via kexec. This is
1774 mostly equivalent to
<command>start kexec.target --job-mode=replace-irreversibly
</command>,
1775 but also prints a wall message to all users. If combined
1776 with
<option>--force
</option>, shutdown of all running
1777 services is skipped, however all processes are killed and
1778 all file systems are unmounted or mounted read-only,
1779 immediately followed by the reboot.
</para>
1784 <term><command>exit
<optional><replaceable>EXIT_CODE
</replaceable></optional></command></term>
1787 <para>Ask the systemd manager to quit. This is only
1788 supported for user service managers (i.e. in conjunction
1789 with the
<option>--user
</option> option) or in containers
1790 and is equivalent to
<command>poweroff
</command> otherwise.
</para>
1792 <para>The systemd manager can exit with a non-zero exit
1793 code if the optional argument
1794 <replaceable>EXIT_CODE
</replaceable> is given.
</para>
1799 <term><command>switch-root
<replaceable>ROOT
</replaceable> <optional><replaceable>INIT
</replaceable></optional></command></term>
1802 <para>Switches to a different root directory and executes a new system manager process below it. This is
1803 intended for usage in initial RAM disks (
"initrd"), and will transition from the initrd's system manager
1804 process (a.k.a.
"init" process) to the main system manager process which is loaded from the actual host
1805 volume. This call takes two arguments: the directory that is to become the new root directory, and the path
1806 to the new system manager binary below it to execute as PID
1. If the latter is omitted or the empty
1807 string, a systemd binary will automatically be searched for and used as init. If the system manager path is
1808 omitted, equal to the empty string or identical to the path to the systemd binary, the state of the
1809 initrd's system manager process is passed to the main system manager, which allows later introspection of
1810 the state of the services involved in the initrd boot phase.
</para>
1815 <term><command>suspend
</command></term>
1818 <para>Suspend the system. This will trigger activation of
1819 the special
<filename>suspend.target
</filename> target.
1825 <term><command>hibernate
</command></term>
1828 <para>Hibernate the system. This will trigger activation of
1829 the special
<filename>hibernate.target
</filename> target.
1835 <term><command>hybrid-sleep
</command></term>
1838 <para>Hibernate and suspend the system. This will trigger
1839 activation of the special
1840 <filename>hybrid-sleep.target
</filename> target.
</para>
1847 <title>Parameter Syntax
</title>
1849 <para>Unit commands listed above take either a single unit name (designated as
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable>),
1850 or multiple unit specifications (designated as
<replaceable>PATTERN
</replaceable>…). In the first case, the
1851 unit name with or without a suffix must be given. If the suffix is not specified (unit name is
"abbreviated"),
1852 systemctl will append a suitable suffix,
<literal>.service
</literal> by default, and a type-specific suffix in
1853 case of commands which operate only on specific unit types. For example,
1854 <programlisting># systemctl start sshd
</programlisting> and
1855 <programlisting># systemctl start sshd.service
</programlisting>
1856 are equivalent, as are
1857 <programlisting># systemctl isolate default
</programlisting>
1859 <programlisting># systemctl isolate default.target
</programlisting>
1860 Note that (absolute) paths to device nodes are automatically converted to device unit names, and other (absolute)
1861 paths to mount unit names.
1862 <programlisting># systemctl status /dev/sda
1863 # systemctl status /home
</programlisting>
1865 <programlisting># systemctl status dev-sda.device
1866 # systemctl status home.mount
</programlisting>
1867 In the second case, shell-style globs will be matched against the primary names of all units currently in memory;
1868 literal unit names, with or without a suffix, will be treated as in the first case. This means that literal unit
1869 names always refer to exactly one unit, but globs may match zero units and this is not considered an
1872 <para>Glob patterns use
1873 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>fnmatch
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1874 so normal shell-style globbing rules are used, and
1875 <literal>*
</literal>,
<literal>?
</literal>,
1876 <literal>[]
</literal> may be used. See
1877 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>glob
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1878 for more details. The patterns are matched against the primary names of
1879 units currently in memory, and patterns which do not match anything
1880 are silently skipped. For example:
1881 <programlisting># systemctl stop sshd@*.service
</programlisting>
1882 will stop all
<filename>sshd@.service
</filename> instances. Note that alias names of units, and units that aren't
1883 in memory are not considered for glob expansion.
1886 <para>For unit file commands, the specified
<replaceable>NAME
</replaceable> should be the name of the unit file
1887 (possibly abbreviated, see above), or the absolute path to the unit file:
1888 <programlisting># systemctl enable foo.service
</programlisting>
1890 <programlisting># systemctl link /path/to/foo.service
</programlisting>
1897 <title>Exit status
</title>
1899 <para>On success,
0 is returned, a non-zero failure
1900 code otherwise.
</para>
1904 <title>Environment
</title>
1906 <variablelist class='environment-variables'
>
1908 <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_EDITOR
</varname></term>
1910 <listitem><para>Editor to use when editing units; overrides
1911 <varname>$EDITOR
</varname> and
<varname>$VISUAL
</varname>. If neither
1912 <varname>$SYSTEMD_EDITOR
</varname> nor
<varname>$EDITOR
</varname> nor
1913 <varname>$VISUAL
</varname> are present or if it is set to an empty
1914 string or if their execution failed, systemctl will try to execute well
1915 known editors in this order:
1916 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>editor
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1917 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>nano
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1918 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>vim
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1919 <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>vi
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
1923 <xi:include href=
"less-variables.xml" xpointer=
"pager"/>
1924 <xi:include href=
"less-variables.xml" xpointer=
"less"/>
1925 <xi:include href=
"less-variables.xml" xpointer=
"lesscharset"/>
1929 <title>See Also
</title>
1931 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1932 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1933 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>loginctl
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1934 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machinectl
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1935 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1936 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1937 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1938 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>wall
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1939 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.preset
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1940 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.generator
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1941 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>glob
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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