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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2017-07-26 15:53:30 -0400 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2017-07-28 05:17:05 -0400 |
| commit | cb1c2d174c1170e89cb69c44c372bd54ca75ce2c (patch) | |
| tree | 3054197b6c3ad05e2595ef3d85c3d7929435ec53 /man | |
| parent | 26adf7741d95f412a468160f7c66b5df56c10bd8 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-cb1c2d174c1170e89cb69c44c372bd54ca75ce2c.tar.gz | |
man: do not encourgage starting of poweroff/halt/reboot/kexec targets directly
Going through logind and systemd allows polkit to be used,
the job mode will be set properly, and is generally easier
to get correct.
Fixes #6452.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.special.xml | 32 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.special.xml b/man/systemd.special.xml index 66c45e39a3..b31c087c76 100644 --- a/man/systemd.special.xml +++ b/man/systemd.special.xml @@ -305,8 +305,12 @@ really just halts the system rather than powering it down.</para> - <para>Applications wanting to halt the system should start - this unit.</para> + <para>Applications wanting to halt the system should not start this unit + directly, but should instead execute <command>systemctl halt</command> + (possibly with the <option>--no-block</option> option) or call + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>'s + <command>org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager.Halt</command> D-Bus method + directly.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> @@ -336,8 +340,12 @@ <para>A special target unit for shutting down and rebooting the system via kexec.</para> - <para>Applications wanting to reboot the system with kexec - should start this unit.</para> + <para>Applications wanting to reboot the system should not start this unit + directly, but should instead execute <command>systemctl kexec</command> + (possibly with the <option>--no-block</option> option) or call + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>'s + <command>org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager.KExec</command> D-Bus method + directly.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> @@ -430,8 +438,12 @@ <para>A special target unit for shutting down and powering off the system.</para> - <para>Applications wanting to power off the system should - start this unit.</para> + <para>Applications wanting to reboot the system should not start this unit + directly, but should instead execute <command>systemctl poweroff</command> + (possibly with the <option>--no-block</option> option) or call + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-logind</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>'s + <command>org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.PowerOff</command> D-Bus method + directly.</para> <para><filename>runlevel0.target</filename> is an alias for this target unit, for compatibility with SysV.</para> @@ -443,8 +455,12 @@ <para>A special target unit for shutting down and rebooting the system.</para> - <para>Applications wanting to reboot the system should start - this unit.</para> + <para>Applications wanting to reboot the system should not start this unit + directly, but should instead execute <command>systemctl reboot</command> + (possibly with the <option>--no-block</option> option) or call + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-logind</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>'s + <command>org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.Reboot</command> D-Bus method + directly.</para> <para><filename>runlevel6.target</filename> is an alias for this target unit, for compatibility with SysV.</para> |