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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2021-09-27 08:43:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2021-09-27 09:19:02 +0200 |
| commit | 18c7a1eb6c7ede7255309d71a28b995d86de9444 (patch) | |
| tree | 8fcee7494a7a84274fe440c812b9cab484766fc8 | |
| parent | man: minor grammar fixups in systemd-cryptenroll (diff) | |
| download | systemd-18c7a1eb6c7ede7255309d71a28b995d86de9444.tar.xz systemd-18c7a1eb6c7ede7255309d71a28b995d86de9444.zip | |
man: refresh description of sysvinit compat for services
The existing text must have been written before systemd-sysv-generator was
created. We don't create the wrappers dynamically since a long time.
Also add more links and make the description conditional on "if compat
is enabled".
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd-sysv-generator.xml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.service.xml | 14 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-sysv-generator.xml b/man/systemd-sysv-generator.xml index 14ab932fed..e9f318b549 100644 --- a/man/systemd-sysv-generator.xml +++ b/man/systemd-sysv-generator.xml @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ that creates wrapper .service units for <ulink url="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit">SysV init</ulink> scripts in <filename>/etc/init.d/*</filename> at boot and when - configuration of the system manager is reloaded. This will allow + configuration of the system manager is reloaded. This allows <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> to support them similarly to native units.</para> @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more details.</para> + <para>Note that compatibility is quite comprehensive but not 100%, for more details see <ulink + url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Incompatibilities">Incompatibilities with + SysV</ulink>.</para> + <para>SysV runlevels have corresponding systemd targets (<filename>runlevel<replaceable>X</replaceable>.target</filename>). The wrapper unit that is generated will be wanted by those targets diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml index 884260a215..1745dbb49b 100644 --- a/man/systemd.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd.service.xml @@ -50,15 +50,11 @@ which configure resource control settings for the processes of the service.</para> - <para>If a service is requested under a certain name but no unit - configuration file is found, systemd looks for a SysV init script - by the same name (with the <filename>.service</filename> suffix - removed) and dynamically creates a service unit from that script. - This is useful for compatibility with SysV. Note that this - compatibility is quite comprehensive but not 100%. For details - about the incompatibilities, see the <ulink - url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Incompatibilities">Incompatibilities - with SysV</ulink> document.</para> + <para>If SysV init compat is enabled, systemd automatically creates service units that wrap SysV init + scripts (the service name is the same as the name of the script, with a <literal>.service</literal> + suffix added); see + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-sysv-generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>. + </para> <para>The <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-run</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> command allows creating <filename>.service</filename> and <filename>.scope</filename> units dynamically |