From bbd46aadf3cd24a5e172ff54111aeaa42daed5d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 20:19:57 -0400
Subject: man: update description of --quiet

This description should provide the general rule, without
listing all the subcommands, which is bound to get out of date
too often.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/216
---
 man/systemctl.xml | 13 +++++--------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man')

diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
index 66a090049d..0b5282ba21 100644
--- a/man/systemctl.xml
+++ b/man/systemctl.xml
@@ -319,14 +319,11 @@
         <term><option>--quiet</option></term>
 
         <listitem>
-          <para>Suppress output to standard output in
-          <command>snapshot</command>,
-          <command>is-active</command>,
-          <command>is-failed</command>,
-          <command>is-enabled</command>,
-          <command>is-system-running</command>,
-          <command>enable</command> and
-        <command>disable</command>.</para>
+          <para>Suppress printing of the results of various commands
+          and also the hints about truncated log lines. This does not
+          suppress output of commands for which the printed output is
+          the only result (like <command>show</command>). Errors are
+          always printed.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
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