From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:30:05 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: man: document that services need at least one of ExecStart= or ExecStop=
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man: document that services need at least one of ExecStart= or ExecStop=

Fixes: #4521
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diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index 684029bdb44..b707961a59f 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -284,7 +284,9 @@
         providing multiple command lines in the same directive, or alternatively, this directive may be specified more
         than once with the same effect. If the empty string is assigned to this option, the list of commands to start
         is reset, prior assignments of this option will have no effect. If no <varname>ExecStart=</varname> is
-        specified, then the service must have <varname>RemainAfterExit=yes</varname> set.</para>
+        specified, then the service must have <varname>RemainAfterExit=yes</varname> and at least one
+        <varname>ExecStop=</varname> line set. (Services lacking both <varname>ExecStart=</varname> and
+        <varname>ExecStop=</varname> are not valid.)</para>
 
         <para>For each of the specified commands, the first argument must be an absolute path to an
         executable. Optionally, if this file name is prefixed with <literal>@</literal>, the second token will be