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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-04-26 11:57:54 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-04-26 12:00:49 +0200
commit28c75e250155a6895a28e181aa7b84330864a28f (patch)
tree7300b0742275fb3c6304297602ef79d0faf603ac /man/systemd.exec.xml
parentbee6a29198e7c8f6636aafece9a42c97435d171e (diff)
man: elaborate on the automatic systemd-journald.socket service dependencies
Fixes: #1603
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diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml
index 4ed62dbada..fea42ebd31 100644
--- a/man/systemd.exec.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml
@@ -94,11 +94,10 @@
required to access <filename>/tmp</filename> and
<filename>/var/tmp</filename>.</para>
- <para>Units whose output standard output or error output is
- connected to any other sink but <option>null</option>,
- <option>tty</option> and <option>socket</option> automatically
- acquire dependencies of type <varname>After=</varname> on
- <filename>journald.socket</filename>.</para>
+ <para>Units whose output standard output or error output is connected to <option>journal</option>,
+ <option>syslog</option> or <option>kmsg</option> (or their combinations with console output, see below)
+ automatically acquire dependencies of type <varname>After=</varname> on
+ <filename>systemd-journald.socket</filename>.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
@@ -470,6 +469,10 @@
similar to the same option of
<varname>StandardInput=</varname>.</para>
+ <para>If the standard output (or error output, see below) of a unit is connected with the journal, syslog or
+ the kernel log buffer the unit will implicitly gain a dependency of type <varname>After=</varname> on
+ <filename>systemd-journald.socket</filename> (also see the automatic dependencies section above).</para>
+
<para>This setting defaults to the value set with
<option>DefaultStandardOutput=</option> in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,