<?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"> <!-- This file is part of systemd. Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. --> <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 alternative 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 < /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>