From: Lucas Werkmeister Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 14:41:31 +0000 (+0100) Subject: man: systemctl: document effect of --all on journal output X-Git-Tag: v241-rc1~117 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4fa226ff3b875bf353f0e9131835da271ecae04f;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git man: systemctl: document effect of --all on journal output Based on the journalctl documentation of this option added in 23ad99b519 (#10527), but with the first reference to “fields” replaced by “journal messages”, since I think it’s less common to show other fields with `systemctl status` (though it’s possible with the `-o` option). --- diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml index b9077c55a1a..08aacd8f41c 100644 --- a/man/systemctl.xml +++ b/man/systemctl.xml @@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ When listing units with list-dependencies, recursively show dependencies of all dependent units (by default only dependencies of target units are shown). + + When used with status, 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.)