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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-08-13 09:38:12 -0400
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-08-19 09:55:54 -0400
commitd923e42eed9a29137821760dafecb13798264c07 (patch)
tree5b4cc1512b82cbf05ca35e438ab91754374d20f8 /man/systemctl.xml
parent11e11fd57a837ea1cb142009c3048882392f3ed3 (diff)
man: describe what symlinks to unit do, and specify that presets must use real names
The man pages didn't ever mention that symlinks to units can be created, and what exactly this means. Fix that omission, and disallow presets on alias names.
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diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
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@@ -1092,7 +1092,8 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
enabled and disabled, or only enabled, or only disabled.</para>
<para>If the unit carries no install information, it will be silently ignored
- by this command.</para>
+ by this command. <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> must be the real unit name,
+ any alias names are ignored silently.</para>
<para>For more information on the preset policy format, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.preset</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.