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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2014-01-11 23:44:34 -0500
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2014-01-11 23:45:17 -0500
commit708c143c7cd2bbd748ac0fa993496ff44e72701c (patch)
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+<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+
+<!--
+This file is part of systemd.
+
+Copyright 2014 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
+
+systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+-->
+
+<refentry id="busctl">
+
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <title>busctl</title>
+ <productname>systemd</productname>
+
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <contrib>A monkey with a typewriter</contrib>
+ <firstname>Zbigniew</firstname>
+ <surname>Jędrzejewski-Szmek</surname>
+ <email>zbyszek@in.waw.pl</email>
+ </author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ </refentryinfo>
+
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>busctl</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>busctl</refname>
+ <refpurpose>Introspect the bus</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>busctl</command>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">COMMAND</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>NAME</replaceable></arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Description</title>
+
+ <para><command>busctl</command> may be used to
+ introspect and monitor the D-Bus bus.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Options</title>
+
+ <para>The following options are understood:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-h</option></term>
+ <term><option>--help</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Print a short help text and exit.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--version</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Print a short version string and exit.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--no-pager</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Do not pipe output into a pager.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--system</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Talk to the systemd system manager (the
+ default).</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--user</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Talk to the systemd manager of the calling
+ user.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-H</option></term>
+ <term><option>--host</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Execute the operation remotely. Specify a hostname, or
+ username and hostname separated by <literal>@</literal>, to
+ connect to. This will use SSH to talk to the remote systemd
+ instance.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-M</option></term>
+ <term><option>--machine=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Execute the operation on a local container.
+ Specify a container name to connect to.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--address=<replaceable>ADDRESS</replaceable></option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Connect to the bus specified by
+ <replaceable>ADDRESS</replaceable> instead of using suitable
+ defaults for either the system or user bus (see
+ <option>--system</option> and <option>--user</option>
+ options).</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--show-machine</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>When showing the list of endpoints, show a
+ column containing the names of containers they belong to.
+ See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machined.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--unique</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>When showing the list of endpoints, show
+ only "unique" names (of the form
+ <literal>:<replaceable>number</replaceable>.<replaceable>number</replaceable></literal>).
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--acquired</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>The opposite of <option>--unique</option> —
+ only "well-known" names will be shown.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--activatable</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>When showing the list of endpoints, show
+ only endpoints which haven't actually been activated yet,
+ but may be started automatically if accessed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--match=<replaceable>MATCH</replaceable></option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>When showing messages being exchanged, show only the
+ subset matching <replaceable>MATCH</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
+ <!-- TODO: link to sd_bus_add_match when it is written? -->
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Commands</title>
+
+ <para>The following commands are understood:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>list</command></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Show endpoints attached to the bus. This is
+ the default if no command is specified.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>monitor</command> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>NAME</replaceable></arg></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Dump messages being exchanged. If
+ <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> is specified, show messages
+ to or from this endpoint. Otherwsise, show all messages on the
+ bus.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>status</command> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>NAME</replaceable></arg></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Show process information and credentials of a
+ bus endpoint.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>help</command></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Show command syntax help.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>See Also</title>
+
+ <para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <ulink url="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus">D-Bus</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="https://code.google.com/p/d-bus/">kdbus</ulink>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-bus</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-bus-proxyd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machinectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+</refentry>
diff --git a/man/systemd-bus-proxyd.xml b/man/systemd-bus-proxyd.xml
index c90ae12e29..d53f966ab3 100644
--- a/man/systemd-bus-proxyd.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-bus-proxyd.xml
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- <ulink url="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus">D-Bus</ulink>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <ulink url="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus">D-Bus</ulink>,
<ulink url="https://code.google.com/p/d-bus/">kdbus</ulink>
</para>
</refsect1>