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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2016-04-29 17:48:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2016-04-29 18:06:12 +0200 |
| commit | f4bf8d2f45b02c26234219d07bfd3a41290cc84e (patch) | |
| tree | 6e8548e5f076e336998da48ea33183933a20c1b2 /man/systemd.unit.xml | |
| parent | a837f0880362c190254619ebbb8bad20603211f4 (diff) | |
man: document that some unit types do not support unit aliases via symlinks
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd.unit.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.unit.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml index 7993301167..69f56e3f0a 100644 --- a/man/systemd.unit.xml +++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml @@ -1102,13 +1102,12 @@ <varlistentry> <term><varname>Alias=</varname></term> - <listitem><para>A space-separated list of additional names - this unit shall be installed under. The names listed here must - have the same suffix (i.e. type) as the unit file name. This - option may be specified more than once, in which case all - listed names are used. At installation time, - <command>systemctl enable</command> will create symlinks from - these names to the unit filename.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>A space-separated list of additional names this unit shall be installed under. The names listed + here must have the same suffix (i.e. type) as the unit file name. This option may be specified more than once, + in which case all listed names are used. At installation time, <command>systemctl enable</command> will create + symlinks from these names to the unit filename. Note that not all unit types support such alias names, and this + setting is not supported for them. Specifically, mount, slice, swap, and automount units do not support + aliasing.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |