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authorJason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>2014-03-17 00:03:46 -0400
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2014-03-17 01:57:37 -0400
commit9029f64298cb70c12ecf638fddee7f41b056fcf1 (patch)
treeab4e0e3dce6b22721cf02ad69a346b80c7c900aa /man
parent3f573096641cf3d350c8779971c644ca74aab93a (diff)
man: improve wording of systemctl's --after/--before
Commit 4a77ca7 was an attempt at fixing the wording of --after and --before, but the new wording was unclear. Split the combined --after/--before section into a separate section for each, explicitly state what each option does, and add information about how these lists are generated. Reported-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> Reported-by: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/systemctl.xml21
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
index cd27c4a8e1..77447dd122 100644
--- a/man/systemctl.xml
+++ b/man/systemctl.xml
@@ -157,12 +157,27 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--after</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>With <command>list-dependencies</command>, show the
+ units that are ordered before the specified unit. In other
+ words, list the units that are in the <varname>After=</varname>
+ directive of the specified unit, have the specified unit in
+ their <varname>Before=</varname> directive, or are otherwise
+ implicit dependencies of the specified unit.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term><option>--before</option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Show after (before) which units the specified unit is started
- with <command>list-dependencies</command>.
- </para>
+ <para>With <command>list-dependencies</command>, show the
+ units that are ordered after the specified unit. In other
+ words, list the units that are in the <varname>Before=</varname>
+ directive of the specified unit, have the specified unit in
+ their <varname>After=</varname> directive, or otherwise depend
+ on the specified unit.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>