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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-06-19 22:29:29 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-06-19 22:29:29 +0200
commit3ed18ce28c2a8058fa740ad27436a2d73f096488 (patch)
treea8c360c2722e7093b9fdaa8f6fde2c039f93f133 /man/busctl.xml
parent850df10ac10aedbc2140bcd1152d6e86fdad9b48 (diff)
man: be more careful with the wording in busctl(1)
Diffstat (limited to 'man/busctl.xml')
-rw-r--r--man/busctl.xml24
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/man/busctl.xml b/man/busctl.xml
index 807fc78e8f..233afa955c 100644
--- a/man/busctl.xml
+++ b/man/busctl.xml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--show-machine</option></term>
- <listitem><para>When showing the list of endpoints, show a
+ <listitem><para>When showing the list of peers, show a
column containing the names of containers they belong to.
See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machined.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--unique</option></term>
- <listitem><para>When showing the list of endpoints, show
- only "unique" names (of the form
+ <listitem><para>When showing the list of peers, show only
+ "unique" names (of the form
<literal>:<replaceable>number</replaceable>.<replaceable>number</replaceable></literal>).
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -109,9 +109,9 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--activatable</option></term>
- <listitem><para>When showing the list of endpoints, show
- only endpoints which have actually not been activated yet,
- but may be started automatically if accessed.</para>
+ <listitem><para>When showing the list of peers, show only
+ peers which have actually not been activated yet, but may be
+ started automatically if accessed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -257,8 +257,11 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><command>list</command></term>
- <listitem><para>Show service names on the bus. This is the
- default if no command is specified.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Show all peers on the bus, by their service
+ names. By default shows both unique and well-known names, but
+ this may be changed with the <option>--unique</option> and
+ <option>--acquired</option> switches. This is the default
+ operation if no command is specified.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -276,8 +279,9 @@
<listitem><para>Dump messages being exchanged. If
<replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable> is specified, show messages
- to or from this endpoint. Otherwise, show all messages on the
- bus. Use Ctrl-C to terminate dump.</para></listitem>
+ to or from this peer, identified by its well-known or unique
+ name. Otherwise, show all messages on the bus. Use Ctrl-C to
+ terminate dump.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>