From a29271926ad5530276cec486c93ea72ef71a652c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 23:51:19 -0700
Subject: man: document that ExecStart= doesn't understand shell command lines

---
 man/systemd.service.xml | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'man')

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>
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