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-rw-r--r--man/systemd.service.xml11
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 326edb0af8..4519037ae7 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -83,14 +83,10 @@ Features:
* currently system services appear not to generate core dumps...
-* introduce /run/kmsg in containers?
-
* wall messages for shutdown should move to logind
* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
-* journal: json output needs to be able to deal with multiple assignments of the same field
-
* There's something wrong with escaping unit names: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-August/006292.html
* cleanup ellipsation for log output in journalctl and systemctl status: have a sane way to disable ellipsation, and disable it by default when invoked in less/more
@@ -103,8 +99,6 @@ Features:
* maybe make systemd-detect-virt suid? or use fscaps?
-* man: document in ExecStart= explicitly that we don't take shell command lines, only executable names with arguments
-
* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
* nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index 72b67c6988..c547948c6e 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -356,7 +356,16 @@
argument (i.e. the program to execute)
may not be a variable, and must be a
literal and absolute path
- name.</para></listitem>
+ name.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that this setting does not
+ directly support shell command
+ lines. If shell command lines are to
+ be used they need to be passed
+ explicitly to a shell implementation
+ of some kind. Example:
+ <literal>ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'dmesg | tac'</literal></para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>