summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/man/systemd.unit.xml
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd.unit.xml')
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.unit.xml17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml
index f4b13a7a77..90a1ec6b9c 100644
--- a/man/systemd.unit.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml
@@ -770,7 +770,9 @@
<command>systemctl reset-failed</command> will cause the restart rate counter for a service to be flushed,
which is useful if the administrator wants to manually start a unit and the start limit interferes with
that. Note that this rate-limiting is enforced after any unit condition checks are executed, and hence unit
- activations with failing conditions are not counted by this rate limiting.</para></listitem>
+ activations with failing conditions are not counted by this rate limiting. Slice, target, device and scope
+ units do not enforce this setting, as they are unit types whose activation may either never fail, or may
+ succeed only a single time.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -1103,13 +1105,12 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Alias=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>A space-separated list of additional names
- this unit shall be installed under. The names listed here must
- have the same suffix (i.e. type) as the unit file name. This
- option may be specified more than once, in which case all
- listed names are used. At installation time,
- <command>systemctl enable</command> will create symlinks from
- these names to the unit filename.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>A space-separated list of additional names this unit shall be installed under. The names listed
+ here must have the same suffix (i.e. type) as the unit file name. This option may be specified more than once,
+ in which case all listed names are used. At installation time, <command>systemctl enable</command> will create
+ symlinks from these names to the unit filename. Note that not all unit types support such alias names, and this
+ setting is not supported for them. Specifically, mount, slice, swap, and automount units do not support
+ aliasing.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>