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+
+<refentry id="systemd-notify">
+
+        <refentryinfo>
+                <title>systemd-notify</title>
+                <productname>systemd</productname>
+
+                <authorgroup>
+                        <author>
+                                <contrib>Developer</contrib>
+                                <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
+                                <surname>Poettering</surname>
+                                <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
+                        </author>
+                </authorgroup>
+        </refentryinfo>
+
+        <refmeta>
+                <refentrytitle>systemd-notify</refentrytitle>
+                <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+        </refmeta>
+
+        <refnamediv>
+                <refname>systemd-notify</refname>
+                <refpurpose>Notify init system about start-up completion and other daemon status changes</refpurpose>
+        </refnamediv>
+
+        <refsynopsisdiv>
+                <cmdsynopsis>
+                        <command>systemd-notify <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">VARIABLE=VALUE</arg></command>
+                </cmdsynopsis>
+        </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+        <refsect1>
+                <title>Description</title>
+
+                <para><command>systemd-notify</command> may be
+                called by daemon scripts to notify the init system
+                about status changes. It can be used to send arbitrary
+                information, encoded in an environment-block-like list
+                of strings. Most importantly it can be used for
+                start-up completion notification.</para>
+
+                <para>This is mostly just a wrapper around
+                <function>sd_notify()</function> and makes this
+                functionality available to shell scripts. For details
+                see
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+
+                <para>The command line may carry a list of
+                environment variables to send as part of the status
+                update.</para>
+
+        </refsect1>
+
+        <refsect1>
+                <title>Options</title>
+
+                <para>The following options are understood:</para>
+
+                <variablelist>
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>--h</option></term>
+                                <term><option>--help</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Prints a short help
+                                text and exits.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>--ready</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Inform the init system
+                                about service start-up
+                                completion. This is equivalent to
+                                <command>systemd-notify
+                                READY=1</command>. For details about
+                                the semantics of this option see
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>--pid=</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Inform the init system
+                                about the main PID of the
+                                daemon. Takes a PID as argument. If
+                                the argument is omitted the PID of the
+                                process that invoked
+                                <command>systemd-notify</command> is
+                                used. This is equivalent to
+                                <command>systemd-notify
+                                MAINPID=$PID</command>. For details
+                                about the semantics of this option see
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>--status=</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Send a free-form
+                                status string for the daemon to the
+                                init systemd. This option takes the
+                                status string as argument. This is
+                                equivalent to <command>systemd-notify
+                                STATUS=...</command>. For details
+                                about the semantics of this option see
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>--booted</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Returns 0 if the
+                                system was booted up with systemd,
+                                non-zero otherwise. If this option is
+                                passed no message is sent. This option
+                                is hence unrelated to the other
+                                options. For details about the
+                                semantics of this option see
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_booted</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+                </variablelist>
+
+        </refsect1>
+
+        <refsect1>
+                <title>Exit status</title>
+
+                <para>On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
+                code otherwise.</para>
+        </refsect1>
+
+        <refsect1>
+                <title>See Also</title>
+                <para>
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_booted</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                </para>
+        </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>