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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2011-02-09 11:00:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2011-02-09 11:00:17 +0100 |
| commit | be0396695bae9227ad69fcb61066bd84b3974e16 (patch) | |
| tree | 17a7c949e12c9cb7de3cc325d9bdcda57ec6ffdd | |
| parent | b1c0f1c1366eaec64a804c6011df867ea75ed295 (diff) | |
man: clarify a few things
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.service.xml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.socket.xml | 11 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml index ee4d393756..3bd058f00b 100644 --- a/man/systemd.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd.service.xml @@ -223,7 +223,11 @@ daemon. Use of this option is recommended for services where <varname>Type=</varname> is set to - <option>forking</option>.</para> + <option>forking</option>. systemd will + read the PID of the main process of + the daemon after start-up of the + service. systemd will not write to the + file configured here.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> diff --git a/man/systemd.socket.xml b/man/systemd.socket.xml index 1aea2f89b1..3b7581c545 100644 --- a/man/systemd.socket.xml +++ b/man/systemd.socket.xml @@ -113,6 +113,17 @@ <para>Socket units may be used to implement on-demand starting of services, as well as parallelized starting of services.</para> + + <para>Note that the daemon software configured for + socket activation with socket units needs to be able + to accept sockets from systemd, either via systemd's + native socket passing interface (see + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_listen_fds</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> + for details) or via the traditional + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>inetd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>-style + socket passing (i.e. sockets passed in via STDIN and + STDOUT, using <varname>StandardInput=socket</varname> + in the service file).</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> |