From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:57:54 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: man: elaborate on the automatic systemd-journald.socket service dependencies
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man: elaborate on the automatic systemd-journald.socket service dependencies

Fixes: #1603
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diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml
index 4ed62dbada5..fea42ebd311 100644
--- a/man/systemd.exec.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml
@@ -94,11 +94,10 @@
     required to access <filename>/tmp</filename> and
     <filename>/var/tmp</filename>.</para>
 
-    <para>Units whose output standard output or error output is
-    connected to any other sink but <option>null</option>,
-    <option>tty</option> and <option>socket</option> automatically
-    acquire dependencies of type <varname>After=</varname> on
-    <filename>journald.socket</filename>.</para>
+    <para>Units whose output standard output or error output is connected to <option>journal</option>,
+    <option>syslog</option> or <option>kmsg</option> (or their combinations with console output, see below)
+    automatically acquire dependencies of type <varname>After=</varname> on
+    <filename>systemd-journald.socket</filename>.</para>
   </refsect1>
 
   <refsect1>
@@ -470,6 +469,10 @@
         similar to the same option of
         <varname>StandardInput=</varname>.</para>
 
+        <para>If the standard output (or error output, see below) of a unit is connected with the journal, syslog or
+        the kernel log buffer the unit will implicitly gain a dependency of type <varname>After=</varname> on
+        <filename>systemd-journald.socket</filename> (also see the automatic dependencies section above).</para>
+
         <para>This setting defaults to the value set with
         <option>DefaultStandardOutput=</option> in
         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,