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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">
+
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+
+<refentry id="systemd-notify"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
+
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <title>systemd-notify</title>
+ <productname>systemd</productname>
+
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <contrib>Developer</contrib>
+ <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
+ <surname>Poettering</surname>
+ <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
+ </author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ </refentryinfo>
+
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>systemd-notify</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>systemd-notify</refname>
+ <refpurpose>Notify service manager about start-up completion and other daemon status changes</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>systemd-notify <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">VARIABLE=VALUE</arg></command>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Description</title>
+
+ <para><command>systemd-notify</command> may be called by daemon
+ scripts to notify the init system about status changes. It can be
+ used to send arbitrary information, encoded in an
+ environment-block-like list of strings. Most importantly, it can be
+ used for start-up completion notification.</para>
+
+ <para>This is mostly just a wrapper around
+ <function>sd_notify()</function> and makes this functionality
+ available to shell scripts. For details see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The command line may carry a list of environment variables
+ to send as part of the status update.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that systemd will refuse reception of status updates
+ from this command unless <varname>NotifyAccess=all</varname> is
+ set for the service unit this command is called from.</para>
+
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Options</title>
+
+ <para>The following options are understood:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--ready</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Inform the init system about service start-up
+ completion. This is equivalent to <command>systemd-notify
+ READY=1</command>. For details about the semantics of this
+ option see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--pid=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Inform the init system about the main PID of
+ the daemon. Takes a PID as argument. If the argument is
+ omitted, the PID of the process that invoked
+ <command>systemd-notify</command> is used. This is equivalent
+ to <command>systemd-notify MAINPID=$PID</command>. For details
+ about the semantics of this option see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--status=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Send a free-form status string for the daemon
+ to the init systemd. This option takes the status string as
+ argument. This is equivalent to <command>systemd-notify
+ STATUS=...</command>. For details about the semantics of this
+ option see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--booted</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Returns 0 if the system was booted up with
+ systemd, non-zero otherwise. If this option is passed, no
+ message is sent. This option is hence unrelated to the other
+ options. For details about the semantics of this option, see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_booted</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>. An
+ alternate way to check for this state is to call
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ with the <command>is-system-running</command> command. It will
+ return <literal>offline</literal> if the system was not booted
+ with systemd. </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Exit status</title>
+
+ <para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code
+ otherwise.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Example</title>
+
+ <example>
+ <title>Start-up Notification and Status Updates</title>
+
+ <para>A simple shell daemon that sends start-up notifications
+ after having set up its communication channel. During runtime it
+ sends further status updates to the init system:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>#!/bin/bash
+
+mkfifo /tmp/waldo
+systemd-notify --ready --status="Waiting for data..."
+
+while : ; do
+ read a &lt; /tmp/waldo
+ systemd-notify --status="Processing $a"
+
+ # Do something with $a ...
+
+ systemd-notify --status="Waiting for data..."
+done</programlisting>
+ </example>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>See Also</title>
+ <para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_booted</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>