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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-04-29 17:48:07 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-04-29 18:06:12 +0200
commitf4bf8d2f45b02c26234219d07bfd3a41290cc84e (patch)
tree6e8548e5f076e336998da48ea33183933a20c1b2
parenta837f0880362c190254619ebbb8bad20603211f4 (diff)
man: document that some unit types do not support unit aliases via symlinks
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.automount.xml15
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.mount.xml14
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.slice.xml3
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.swap.xml13
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.unit.xml13
5 files changed, 28 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.automount.xml b/man/systemd.automount.xml
index 93bae2a6dc..a43dc981bd 100644
--- a/man/systemd.automount.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.automount.xml
@@ -66,14 +66,13 @@
[Install] sections. The automount specific configuration options
are configured in the [Automount] section.</para>
- <para>Automount units must be named after the automount
- directories they control. Example: the automount point
- <filename noindex='true'>/home/lennart</filename> must be
- configured in a unit file
- <filename>home-lennart.automount</filename>. For details about the
- escaping logic used to convert a file system path to a unit name
- see
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+ <para>Automount units must be named after the automount directories they control. Example: the automount point
+ <filename noindex='true'>/home/lennart</filename> must be configured in a unit file
+ <filename>home-lennart.automount</filename>. For details about the escaping logic used to convert a file system
+ path to a unit name see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Note that
+ automount units cannot be templated, nor is it possible to add multiple names to an automount unit by creating
+ additional symlinks to its unit file.</para>
<para>For each automount unit file a matching mount unit file (see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
diff --git a/man/systemd.mount.xml b/man/systemd.mount.xml
index f116782b40..bf56a49e58 100644
--- a/man/systemd.mount.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.mount.xml
@@ -82,14 +82,12 @@
will refuse options that are not listed in
<filename>/etc/fstab</filename> if it is not run as UID 0.</para>
- <para>Mount units must be named after the mount point directories
- they control. Example: the mount point
- <filename noindex='true'>/home/lennart</filename> must be
- configured in a unit file <filename>home-lennart.mount</filename>.
- For details about the escaping logic used to convert a file system
- path to a unit name, see
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- Note that mount units cannot be templated.</para>
+ <para>Mount units must be named after the mount point directories they control. Example: the mount point <filename
+ noindex='true'>/home/lennart</filename> must be configured in a unit file <filename>home-lennart.mount</filename>.
+ For details about the escaping logic used to convert a file system path to a unit name, see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Note that mount
+ units cannot be templated, nor is possible to add multiple names to a mount unit by creating additional symlinks to
+ it.</para>
<para>Optionally, a mount unit may be accompanied by an automount
unit, to allow on-demand or parallelized mounting. See
diff --git a/man/systemd.slice.xml b/man/systemd.slice.xml
index 16247628af..eee98d99ee 100644
--- a/man/systemd.slice.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.slice.xml
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@
the root slice <filename>-.slice</filename>.
</para>
+ <para>Note that slice units cannot be templated, nor is possible to add multiple names to a slice unit by creating
+ additional symlinks to it.</para>
+
<para>By default, service and scope units are placed in
<filename>system.slice</filename>, virtual machines and containers
registered with
diff --git a/man/systemd.swap.xml b/man/systemd.swap.xml
index 6fc4c7bf13..cf4e1ba839 100644
--- a/man/systemd.swap.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.swap.xml
@@ -78,13 +78,12 @@
which configure resource control settings for these processes of the
unit.</para>
- <para>Swap units must be named after the devices
- or files they control. Example: the swap device
- <filename noindex='true'>/dev/sda5</filename> must be configured in a
- unit file <filename>dev-sda5.swap</filename>. For details about
- the escaping logic used to convert a file system path to a unit
- name, see
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+ <para>Swap units must be named after the devices or files they control. Example: the swap device <filename
+ noindex='true'>/dev/sda5</filename> must be configured in a unit file <filename>dev-sda5.swap</filename>. For
+ details about the escaping logic used to convert a file system path to a unit name, see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Note that swap
+ units cannot be templated, nor is possible to add multiple names to a swap unit by creating additional symlinks to
+ it.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml
index 7993301167..69f56e3f0a 100644
--- a/man/systemd.unit.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml
@@ -1102,13 +1102,12 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Alias=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>A space-separated list of additional names
- this unit shall be installed under. The names listed here must
- have the same suffix (i.e. type) as the unit file name. This
- option may be specified more than once, in which case all
- listed names are used. At installation time,
- <command>systemctl enable</command> will create symlinks from
- these names to the unit filename.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>A space-separated list of additional names this unit shall be installed under. The names listed
+ here must have the same suffix (i.e. type) as the unit file name. This option may be specified more than once,
+ in which case all listed names are used. At installation time, <command>systemctl enable</command> will create
+ symlinks from these names to the unit filename. Note that not all unit types support such alias names, and this
+ setting is not supported for them. Specifically, mount, slice, swap, and automount units do not support
+ aliasing.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>