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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-08-19 19:36:09 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2016-08-19 19:36:09 +0200
commit16d901e251dc51162bcdda25b4be8eea964ed548 (patch)
tree4f27de27925aef25440ddf635834ff40e771204c /man
parenta457bd26cc8b1a20fdfca39e3f57a079aaf97940 (diff)
parentacf553b04d40ccde8098a2bcdebf8245b212d289 (diff)
Merge pull request #3987 from keszybz/console-color-setup
Rework console color setup
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.xml10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.xml b/man/systemd.xml
index 65f55199e2..e30333e209 100644
--- a/man/systemd.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.xml
@@ -837,8 +837,10 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>$SYSTEMD_COLORS</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Controls whether colorized output should be generated.
- </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>The value must be a boolean. Controls whether colorized output should be
+ generated. This can be specified to override the decision that <command>systemd</command>
+ makes based on <varname>$TERM</varname> and what the console is connected to.</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -849,7 +851,7 @@
<listitem><para>Set by systemd for supervised processes during
socket-based activation. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_listen_fds</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- for more information. </para></listitem>
+ for more information.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -858,7 +860,7 @@
<listitem><para>Set by systemd for supervised processes for
status and start-up completion notification. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- for more information. </para></listitem>
+ for more information.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>