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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-12-22 22:53:23 -0500
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-12-22 22:54:15 -0500
commit6096dfd6167f8520be3a359c1fd0e6f2e76a4dc1 (patch)
tree372e46889a7a74f79d295a763a5914192e3868ae /man
parentf939e9a47c54ac37504e8517f316cbec46864d14 (diff)
delta: if prefix is specified, only show overrides there
systemd-delta /run/systemd/system will show all unit overrides in /run, etc.
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-rw-r--r--man/systemd-delta.xml80
1 files changed, 65 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-delta.xml b/man/systemd-delta.xml
index 413ebd8de8..4d3ab78040 100644
--- a/man/systemd-delta.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-delta.xml
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
- <command>systemd-delta <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">SUFFIX</arg></command>
+ <command>systemd-delta</command>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>PREFIX</replaceable><optional>/<replaceable>SUFFIX</replaceable></optional>|<replaceable>SUFFIX</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
@@ -57,18 +59,46 @@
<title>Description</title>
<para><command>systemd-delta</command> may be used to
- identify and compare configuration files in
- <filename>/etc</filename> that override default
- counterparts in <filename>/usr</filename>. The command
- line argument can be one or more name of a subdirectories of
- <filename>/etc</filename> or
- <filename>/usr/lib</filename> to compare, such as
- <filename>tmpfiles.d</filename>, <filename>sysctl.d</filename> or
- <filename>systemd/system</filename>.</para>
-
- <para>When no argument is specified a number of
- well-known subdirectories are searched for overridden
- files.</para>
+ identify and compare configuration files that override
+ other configuration files. Files in
+ <filename>/etc</filename> have highest priority, files
+ in <filename>/run</filename> have the second highest
+ priority, ..., files in <filename>/lib</filename> have
+ lowest priority. Files in a directory with higher
+ priority override files with the same name in
+ directories of lower priority. In addition, certain
+ configuration files can have <literal>.d</literal>
+ directories which contain "drop-in" files with
+ configuration snippets which augment the main
+ configuration file. "Drop-in" files can be overriden
+ in the same way by placing files with the same name in
+ a directory of higher priority (except that in case of
+ "drop-in" files, both the "drop-in" file name and the
+ name of the containing directory, which corresponds to
+ the name of the main configuration file, must match).
+ For a fuller explanation, see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The command line argument will be split into a
+ prefix and a suffix. Either is optional. The prefix
+ must be one of the directories containing
+ configuration files (<filename>/etc</filename>,
+ <filename>/run</filename>,
+ <filename>/usr/lib</filename>, ...). If it is given,
+ only overriding files contained in this directory will
+ be shown. Otherwise, all overriding files will be
+ shown. The suffix must be a name of a subdirectory
+ containing configuration files like
+ <filename>tmpfiles.d</filename>,
+ <filename>sysctl.d</filename> or
+ <filename>systemd/system</filename>. If it is given,
+ only configuration files in this subdirectory (across
+ all configuration paths) will be analyzed. Otherwise,
+ all configuration files will be analyzed. If the
+ commandline argument is not given at all, all
+ configuration files will be analyzed. See below for
+ some examples.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
@@ -168,9 +198,28 @@
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-
</refsect1>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Examples</title>
+
+ <para>To see all local configuration:</para>
+ <programlisting>systemd-delta
+ </programlisting>
+
+ <para>To see all runtime configuration:</para>
+ <programlisting>systemd-delta /run
+ </programlisting>
+
+ <para>To see all system unit configuration changes:</para>
+ <programlisting>systemd-delta systemd/system
+ </programlisting>
+
+ <para>To see all runtime "drop-in" changes for system units:</para>
+ <programlisting>systemd-delta --type=extended /run/systemd/system
+ </programlisting>
+ </refsect1>
+
<refsect1>
<title>Exit status</title>
@@ -181,7 +230,8 @@
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>