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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-12-21 19:00:08 -0500
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-12-21 19:00:23 -0500
commite213d1a3c3dd0b6a39790c2fbd46d3bcfc683c46 (patch)
tree8be2f9e50c5ffd9b561a8cc9edcc1c461d8b48dd /man
parent4ff4ebb1fbb7296f67b89b66d2d7f720b49b51c5 (diff)
man: mention --full and --lines in systemctl status
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732798
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-rw-r--r--man/systemctl.xml14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
index 8ce8661a8e..d454df6477 100644
--- a/man/systemctl.xml
+++ b/man/systemctl.xml
@@ -719,8 +719,18 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
belongs to.</para>
<para>This function is intended to generate human-readable
- output. If you are looking for computer-parsable output, use
- <command>show</command> instead.</para>
+ output. If you are looking for computer-parsable output,
+ use <command>show</command> instead. By default this
+ function only shows 10 lines of output and ellipsizes
+ lines to fit in the terminal window. This can be changes
+ with <option>--lines</option> and <option>--full</option>,
+ see above. In addition, <command>journalctl
+ --unit=<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></command> or
+ <command>journalctl
+ --user-unit=<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></command> use
+ a similar filter for messages and might be more
+ convenient.
+ </para>
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