From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 23:44:40 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: man: mention that systemctl --root=/ operates on the fs directly
X-Git-Tag: v232~78^2~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9b914a9d6b8279eecbf2c30f97e7aa6b21f03f5d;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

man: mention that systemctl --root=/ operates on the fs directly
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diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
index b51badf7fe9..75885bcf02c 100644
--- a/man/systemctl.xml
+++ b/man/systemctl.xml
@@ -544,8 +544,10 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>When used with
           <command>enable</command>/<command>disable</command>/<command>is-enabled</command>
-          (and related commands), use an alternate root path when
-          looking for unit files.</para>
+          (and related commands), use the specified root path when looking for unit
+          files. If this option is present, <command>systemctl</command> will operate on
+          the file system directly, instead of communicating with the <command>systemd</command>
+          daemon to carry out changes.</para>
         </listitem>
 
       </varlistentry>