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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-01-09 01:43:53 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-01-09 18:35:36 +0100
commit86e1f46f92ff4c447ea32a6892ea394c6e6ef541 (patch)
tree36ed0eff8d473c8b7baec54d03c2f0f09c12799c /man/loginctl.xml
parentff0af2a1660bb122f29713c9b2aff8179f165bb7 (diff)
loginctl: make "loginctl session-status" without session ID show the caller's session status
Similar for user-status and seat-status.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/loginctl.xml')
-rw-r--r--man/loginctl.xml33
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man/loginctl.xml b/man/loginctl.xml
index 7a6cc156d3..095ba056aa 100644
--- a/man/loginctl.xml
+++ b/man/loginctl.xml
@@ -209,16 +209,20 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>session-status</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>session-status</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
<listitem><para>Show terse runtime
status information about one or more
sessions, followed by the most recent
- log data from the journal. This
- function is intended to generate
- human-readable output. If you are
- looking for computer-parsable output,
- use <command>show-session</command>
+ log data from the journal. Takes one
+ or more session identifiers as
+ parameters. If no session identifiers
+ are passed the status of the caller's
+ session is shown. This function is
+ intended to generate human-readable
+ output. If you are looking for
+ computer-parsable output, use
+ <command>show-session</command>
instead.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -307,12 +311,16 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>user-status</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>user-status</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
<listitem><para>Show terse runtime
status information about one or more
logged in users, followed by the most
- recent log data from the journal. This
+ recent log data from the
+ journal. Takes one or more user names
+ or numeric user IDs as parameters. If
+ no parameters are passed the status of
+ the caller's user is shown. This
function is intended to generate
human-readable output. If you are
looking for computer-parsable output,
@@ -390,12 +398,15 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>seat-status</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
+ <term><command>seat-status</command> <optional><replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</optional></term>
<listitem><para>Show terse runtime
status information about one or more
- seats. This function is
- intended to generate human-readable
+ seats. Takes one or more seat names as
+ parameters. If no seat names are
+ passed the status of the caller's
+ session's seat is shown. This function
+ is intended to generate human-readable
output. If you are looking for
computer-parsable output, use
<command>show-seat</command>