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man: document that systemctl cat shows file content (#4488)
authorLucas Werkmeister <mail@lucaswerkmeister.de>
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:40:21 +0000 (02:40 +0200)
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:40:21 +0000 (20:40 -0400)
... and that that content might be outdated.

man/systemctl.xml

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@@ -894,7 +894,11 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
             <para>Show backing files of one or more units. Prints the
             "fragment" and "drop-ins" (source files) of units. Each
             file is preceded by a comment which includes the file
-            name.</para>
+            name. Note that this shows the contents of the backing files
+            on disk, which may not match the system manager's
+            understanding of these units if any unit files were
+            updated on disk and the <command>daemon-reload</command>
+            command wasn't issued since.</para>
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