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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-07-03 20:37:10 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-07-03 20:37:10 +0200
commitdb6d9e864083b3ce8206a065e9edaa5fd19bab39 (patch)
treee15197038af9ff1c116f3938b8dc2ac0d1032bbf /man/user-system-options.xml
parent8d90c8a8d6867ffcfb61a11b73205cd7b1a72f3a (diff)
man: document that systemctl's -H may now be used to connect directly to a container on a remote host
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diff --git a/man/user-system-options.xml b/man/user-system-options.xml
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@@ -26,10 +26,15 @@
<term><option>--host=</option></term>
<listitem id='host-text'>
- <para>Execute the operation remotely. Specify a hostname, or
+ <para>Execute the operation remotely. Specify a hostname, or a
username and hostname separated by <literal>@</literal>, to
- connect to. This will use SSH to talk to the remote machine
- manager instance.</para>
+ connect to. The hostname may optionally be suffixed by a
+ container name, separated by <literal>:</literal>, which
+ connects directly to a specific container on the specified
+ host. This will use SSH to talk to the remote machine manager
+ instance. Container names may be enumerated with
+ <command>machinectl -H
+ <replaceable>HOST</replaceable></command>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>