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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-04-07 16:23:16 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-04-07 16:23:16 +0200
commitff5921bae27b4f3fedb339a3a32dc527c9b3a88c (patch)
tree93bf4931e4a5265a8eb7cf580e273c1b265afd4e /man/timedatectl.xml
parentda00518b3f3a8b08d521c4b72068eafa2db566cc (diff)
man: document in timedatectl(1) that the NTP state shown reflects whether timesyncd is enabled
Diffstat (limited to 'man/timedatectl.xml')
-rw-r--r--man/timedatectl.xml12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/timedatectl.xml b/man/timedatectl.xml
index 98ec013ebb..5baa323143 100644
--- a/man/timedatectl.xml
+++ b/man/timedatectl.xml
@@ -103,9 +103,10 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><command>status</command></term>
- <listitem><para>Show current settings
- of the system clock and
- RTC.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Show current settings of the system clock and
+ RTC, including whether NTP is enabled. Note that the NTP state
+ simply reflects whether the
+ <filename>systemd-timesyncd.service</filename> unit is enabled.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -162,7 +163,9 @@
<listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. Controls whether NTP
based network time synchronization is enabled (if
- available).</para></listitem>
+ available). This enables or disables the
+ <filename>systemd-timesyncd.service</filename>
+ unit.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
@@ -225,6 +228,7 @@ chronyd.service - NTP client/server
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-timedated.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-timesyncd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>