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authorLucas Werkmeister <mail@lucaswerkmeister.de>2016-10-26 02:40:21 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-10-25 20:40:21 -0400
commitd4a48671bc453ead3cff911a0dfcc16ce5538072 (patch)
tree970800188da33bf577f1db8a863332646347c5e8
parent2b7466a22b897c7c30550f3572fbdd7bc77554ec (diff)
man: document that systemctl cat shows file content (#4488)
... and that that content might be outdated.
-rw-r--r--man/systemctl.xml6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
index a4d4c53725..225eb06d8b 100644
--- a/man/systemctl.xml
+++ b/man/systemctl.xml
@@ -894,7 +894,11 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
<para>Show backing files of one or more units. Prints the
"fragment" and "drop-ins" (source files) of units. Each
file is preceded by a comment which includes the file
- name.</para>
+ name. Note that this shows the contents of the backing files
+ on disk, which may not match the system manager's
+ understanding of these units if any unit files were
+ updated on disk and the <command>daemon-reload</command>
+ command wasn't issued since.</para>
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