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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2017-11-15 11:23:00 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2017-11-17 11:25:02 +0100
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parentman: document the interaction of "systemctl restart" and the FD store (diff)
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man: write "stop and start" instead of "restart" when explaining the reload fallback operations
We already made a similar change when talking about the "restart" command, let's also do this for "systemctl reload" and friends. Follow-up for: 6539dd7c42946d9ba5dc43028b8b5785eb2db3c5 See: #7126
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
index fb6bb0d702..f5df6065fa 100644
--- a/man/systemctl.xml
+++ b/man/systemctl.xml
@@ -805,18 +805,16 @@ Sun 2017-02-26 20:57:49 EST 2h 3min left Sun 2017-02-26 11:56:36 EST 6h ago
<term><command>reload-or-restart <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>…</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Reload one or more units if they support it. If not,
- restart them instead. If the units are not running yet, they
- will be started.</para>
+ <para>Reload one or more units if they support it. If not, stop and then start them instead. If the units
+ are not running yet, they will be started.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>try-reload-or-restart <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>…</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Reload one or more units if they support it. If not,
- restart them instead. This does nothing if the units are not
- running.</para>
+ <para>Reload one or more units if they support it. If not, stop and then start them instead. This does
+ nothing if the units are not running.</para>
<!-- Note that we don't document force-reload here, as that is just compatibility support, and we generally
don't document that. -->
</listitem>
@@ -1035,14 +1033,11 @@ Jan 12 10:46:45 example.com bluetoothd[8900]: gatt-time-server: Input/output err
<term><command>reset-failed [<replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>…]</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Reset the <literal>failed</literal> state of the
- specified units, or if no unit name is passed, reset the state of all
- units. When a unit fails in some way (i.e. process exiting
- with non-zero error code, terminating abnormally or timing
- out), it will automatically enter the
- <literal>failed</literal> state and its exit code and status
- is recorded for introspection by the administrator until the
- service is restarted or reset with this command.</para>
+ <para>Reset the <literal>failed</literal> state of the specified units, or if no unit name is passed, reset
+ the state of all units. When a unit fails in some way (i.e. process exiting with non-zero error code,
+ terminating abnormally or timing out), it will automatically enter the <literal>failed</literal> state and
+ its exit code and status is recorded for introspection by the administrator until the service is
+ stopped/re-started or reset with this command.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>