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<refentry id="systemctl"
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<para>When listing units with <command>list-dependencies</command>, recursively show
dependencies of all dependent units (by default only dependencies of target units are
shown).</para>
+
+ <para>When used with <command>status</command>, show journal messages in full, even if they include
+ unprintable characters or are very long. By default, fields with unprintable characters are
+ abbreviated as "blob data". (Note that the pager may escape unprintable characters again.)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-T</option></term>
+ <term><option>--show-transaction</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>When enqueuing a unit job (for example as effect of a <command>systemctl start</command>
+ invocation or similar), show brief information about all jobs enqueued, covering both the requested
+ job and any added because of unit dependencies. Note that the output will only include jobs
+ immediately part of the transaction requested. It is possible that service start-up program code
+ run as effect of the enqueued jobs might request further jobs to be pulled in. This means that
+ completion of the listed jobs might ultimately entail more jobs than the listed ones.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--fail</option></term>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--what=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Select what type of per-unit resources to remove when the <command>clean</command> command is
+ invoked, see below. Takes one of <constant>configuration</constant>, <constant>state</constant>,
+ <constant>cache</constant>, <constant>logs</constant>, <constant>runtime</constant> to select the
+ type of resource. This option may be specified more than once, in which case all specified resource
+ types are removed. Also accepts the special value <constant>all</constant> as a shortcut for
+ specifiying all five resource types. If this option is not specified defaults to the combination of
+ <constant>cache</constant> and <constant>runtime</constant>, i.e. the two kinds of resources that
+ are generally considered to be redundant and can be reconstructed on next invocation.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-f</option></term>
<term><option>--force</option></term>
<term><option>--runtime</option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>When used with <command>set-property</command>, make changes only
- temporarily, so that they are lost on the next reboot.</para>
-
- <para>Similarily, when used with <command>enable</command>, <command>mask</command>,
- <command>edit</command> and related commands, make temporary changes, which are lost on
- the next reboot. Changes are not made in subdirectories of <filename>/etc</filename>, but
- in <filename>/run</filename>. The immediate effect is identical, however since the latter
+ <para>When used with <command>enable</command>,
+ <command>disable</command>, <command>edit</command>,
+ (and related commands), make changes only temporarily, so
+ that they are lost on the next reboot. This will have the
+ effect that changes are not made in subdirectories of
+ <filename>/etc</filename> but in <filename>/run</filename>,
+ with identical immediate effects, however, since the latter
is lost on reboot, the changes are lost too.</para>
- <para>Note: this option cannot be used with <command>disable</command>,
- <command>unmask</command>, <command>preset</command>, or <command>preset-all</command>,
- because those operations sometimes need to remove symlinks under <filename>/etc</filename>
- to have the desired effect, which would cause a persistent change.</para>
+ <para>Similarly, when used with
+ <command>set-property</command>, make changes only
+ temporarily, so that they are lost on the next
+ reboot.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term><option>--firmware-setup</option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>When used with the <command>reboot</command> command,
- indicate to the system's firmware to boot into setup
- mode. Note that this is currently only supported on some EFI
- systems and only if the system was booted in EFI
- mode.</para>
+ <para>When used with the <command>reboot</command> command, indicate to the system's firmware to reboot into
+ the firmware setup interface. Note that this functionality is not available on all systems.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--boot-loader-menu=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>When used with the <command>reboot</command> command, indicate to the system's boot loader to show the
+ boot loader menu on the following boot. Takes a time value as parameter — indicating the menu time-out. Pass
+ zero in order to disable the menu time-out. Note that not all boot loaders support this
+ functionality.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--boot-loader-entry=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>When used with the <command>reboot</command> command, indicate to the system's boot loader to boot into
+ a specific boot loader entry on the following boot. Takes a boot loader entry identifier as argument, or
+ <literal>help</literal> in order to list available entries. Note that not all boot loaders support this
+ functionality.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term><command>stop <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>…</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Stop (deactivate) one or more units specified on the
- command line.</para>
+ <para>Stop (deactivate) one or more units specified on the command line.</para>
+
+ <para>This command will fail if the unit does exist or if stopping of the unit is prohibited (see
+ <varname>RefuseManualStop=</varname> in
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>).
+ It will <emphasis>not</emphasis> fail if any of the commands configured to stop the unit
+ (<varname>ExecStop=</varname>, etc.) fail, because the manager will still forcibly terminate the
+ unit.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
the signal to send.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>clean <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>…</command></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Remove the configuration, state, cache, logs or runtime data of the specified units. Use
+ <option>--what=</option> to select which kind of resource to remove. For service units this may
+ be used to remove the directories configured with <varname>ConfigurationDirectory=</varname>,
+ <varname>StateDirectory=</varname>, <varname>CacheDirectory=</varname>,
+ <varname>LogsDirectory=</varname> and <varname>RuntimeDirectory=</varname>, see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ for details. For timer units this may be used to clear out the persistent timestamp data if
+ <varname>Persistent=</varname> is used and <option>--what=state</option> is selected, see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.timer</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. This
+ command only applies to units that use either of these settings. If <option>--what=</option> is
+ not specified, both the cache and runtime data are removed (as these two types of data are
+ generally redundant and reproducible on the next invocation of the unit).</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>is-active <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>…</command></term>
next reboot. The syntax of the property assignment follows
closely the syntax of assignments in unit files.</para>
- <para>Example: <command>systemctl set-property foobar.service CPUShares=777</command></para>
+ <para>Example: <command>systemctl set-property foobar.service CPUWeight=200</command></para>
<para>If the specified unit appears to be inactive, the
changes will be only stored on disk as described
previously hence they will be effective when the unit will
be started.</para>
- <para>Note that this command allows changing multiple
- properties at the same time, which is preferable over
- setting them individually. Like with unit file configuration
- settings, assigning an empty list will reset the property.
- </para>
+ <para>Note that this command allows changing multiple properties at the same time, which is
+ preferable over setting them individually.</para>
+
+ <para>Example: <command>systemctl set-property foobar.service CPUWeight=200 MemoryMax=2G IPAccounting=yes</command></para>
+
+ <para>Like with unit file configuration settings, assigning an empty setting usually resets a
+ property to its defaults.</para>
+
+ <para>Example: <command>systemctl set-property avahi-daemon.service IPAddressDeny=</command></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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<row>
<entry><literal>indirect</literal></entry>
- <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, or it has an alias under a different name through a symlink that is not specified in Also=. For template unit file, an instance different than the one specified in <varname>DefaultInstance=</varname> is enabled.</entry>
+ <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, or it has an alias under a different name through a symlink that is not specified in <varname>Also=</varname>. For template unit file, an instance different than the one specified in <varname>DefaultInstance=</varname> is enabled.</entry>
<entry>0</entry>
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