From: Lennart Poettering Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 02:26:27 +0000 (+0100) Subject: man: document explicitly that network-online.target doesn't track connectivity state... X-Git-Tag: v236~210 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d38802e8810f95674c30be97010873920986989d;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git man: document explicitly that network-online.target doesn't track connectivity state dynamically (#7345) Fixes: #5909 --- diff --git a/man/systemd.special.xml b/man/systemd.special.xml index bb0c7963773..30fd8f6b0c2 100644 --- a/man/systemd.special.xml +++ b/man/systemd.special.xml @@ -443,6 +443,10 @@ it. Note that networking daemons that simply provide functionality to other hosts generally do not need to pull this in. + + Note that this unit is only useful during the original system start-up logic. After the system has + completed booting up, it will not track the online state of the system anymore. Due to this it cannot be used + as a network connection monitor concept, it is purely a one-time system start-up concept.