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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-09-05 23:51:19 -0700 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-09-05 23:51:19 -0700 |
| commit | a29271926ad5530276cec486c93ea72ef71a652c (patch) | |
| tree | 538537d10ba85d86bace368b92080539eb2f779b /man/systemd.service.xml | |
| parent | cb7ed9dfca647198bce95f503552710eae22da37 (diff) | |
man: document that ExecStart= doesn't understand shell command lines
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd.service.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.service.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml index 72b67c6988..c547948c6e 100644 --- a/man/systemd.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd.service.xml @@ -356,7 +356,16 @@ argument (i.e. the program to execute) may not be a variable, and must be a literal and absolute path - name.</para></listitem> + name.</para> + + <para>Note that this setting does not + directly support shell command + lines. If shell command lines are to + be used they need to be passed + explicitly to a shell implementation + of some kind. Example: + <literal>ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'dmesg | tac'</literal></para> + </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |