From 74051b9b5865586bf4d30b9075649af838fb92bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:27:06 +0100 Subject: units: for all unit settings that take lists, allow the empty string for resetting the lists https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=756787 --- man/systemd.socket.xml | 25 +++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'man/systemd.socket.xml') diff --git a/man/systemd.socket.xml b/man/systemd.socket.xml index 88cdaca00f..7ba8bdc85b 100644 --- a/man/systemd.socket.xml +++ b/man/systemd.socket.xml @@ -205,19 +205,24 @@ These options may be specified more than once in which case incoming - traffic on any of the sockets will trigger - service activation, and all listed - sockets will be passed to the service, - regardless whether there is incoming - traffic on them or not. - - If an IP address is used here, it - is often desirable to listen on it + traffic on any of the sockets will + trigger service activation, and all + listed sockets will be passed to the + service, regardless whether there is + incoming traffic on them or not. If + the empty string is assigned to any of + these options, the list of addresses + to listen on is reset, all prior uses + of any of these options will have no + effect. + + If an IP address is used here, + it is often desirable to listen on it before the interface it is configured on is up and running, and even regardless whether it will be up and - running ever at all. To deal with this it is - recommended to set the + running ever at all. To deal with this + it is recommended to set the FreeBind= option described below. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf