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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2021-05-25 17:42:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2021-05-25 17:42:34 +0200 |
| commit | 9f48b4e40ea69b90f61ac2e35b3b272f9cc31674 (patch) | |
| tree | 7588e39ad3141338347e25d4219e69744e8226bb /man/loginctl.xml | |
| parent | 68892f94aee1400cebbe9f7360cc4a5804c3c2b1 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-9f48b4e40ea69b90f61ac2e35b3b272f9cc31674.tar.gz | |
man: documet that loginctl {terminate|kill}-{session|user} take the empty string, optionally
Fixes: #19711
Diffstat (limited to 'man/loginctl.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/loginctl.xml | 26 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/man/loginctl.xml b/man/loginctl.xml index 56a86e56ef..bef3be71c9 100644 --- a/man/loginctl.xml +++ b/man/loginctl.xml @@ -113,18 +113,18 @@ <varlistentry> <term><command>terminate-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>…</term> - <listitem><para>Terminates a session. This kills all processes - of the session and deallocates all resources attached to the - session. </para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Terminates a session. This kills all processes of the session and deallocates all + resources attached to the session. If the argument is specified as empty string the session invoking + the command is terminated.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><command>kill-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>…</term> - <listitem><para>Send a signal to one or more processes of the - session. Use <option>--kill-who=</option> to select which - process to kill. Use <option>--signal=</option> to select the - signal to send.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Send a signal to one or more processes of the session. Use + <option>--kill-who=</option> to select which process to kill. Use <option>--signal=</option> to + select the signal to send. If the argument is specified as empty string the signal is sent to the + session invoking the command.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist></refsect2> @@ -184,17 +184,17 @@ <varlistentry> <term><command>terminate-user</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>…</term> - <listitem><para>Terminates all sessions of a user. This kills - all processes of all sessions of the user and deallocates all - runtime resources attached to the user.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Terminates all sessions of a user. This kills all processes of all sessions of the + user and deallocates all runtime resources attached to the user. If the argument is specified as + empty string the sessions of the user invoking the command are terminated.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><command>kill-user</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>…</term> - <listitem><para>Send a signal to all processes of a user. Use - <option>--signal=</option> to select the signal to send. - </para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Send a signal to all processes of a user. Use <option>--signal=</option> to select + the signal to send. If the argument is specified as empty string the signal is sent to the sessions + of the user invoking the command.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist></refsect2> |