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author | Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com> | 2023-04-13 19:03:43 +0200 |
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committer | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2023-04-14 21:27:59 +0200 |
commit | e77e07f60186b96a9b5df398e92a18a72918e0f2 (patch) | |
tree | a027c2307414487484f58dea1a1c2752becda4ed /man/systemd.preset.xml | |
parent | po: Translated using Weblate (Galician) (diff) | |
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preset: Add ignore directive
The ignore directive specifies to not do anything with the given
unit and leave existing configuration intact. This allows distributions
to gradually adopt preset files by shipping a ignore * preset file.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd.preset.xml')
-rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.preset.xml | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.preset.xml b/man/systemd.preset.xml index ab730d2cc2..5d46a88c3e 100644 --- a/man/systemd.preset.xml +++ b/man/systemd.preset.xml @@ -62,23 +62,23 @@ <refsect1> <title>Preset File Format</title> - <para>The preset files contain a list of directives consisting of - either the word <literal>enable</literal> or - <literal>disable</literal> followed by a space and a unit name - (possibly with shell style wildcards), separated by newlines. - Empty lines and lines whose first non-whitespace character is <literal>#</literal> or - <literal>;</literal> are ignored. Multiple instance names for unit - templates may be specified as a space separated list at the end of - the line instead of the customary position between <literal>@</literal> - and the unit suffix.</para> + <para>The preset files contain a list of directives, one per line. Empty lines and lines whose first + non-whitespace character is <literal>#</literal> or <literal>;</literal> are ignored. Each directive + consists of one of the words <literal>enable</literal>, <literal>disable</literal>, or + <literal>ignore</literal>, followed by whitespace and a unit name. The unit name may contain shell-style + wildcards.</para> + + <para>For the enable directive for template units, one or more instance names may be specified as a + space-separated list after the unit name. In this case, those instances will be enabled instead of the + instance specified via DefaultInstance= in the unit.</para> <para>Presets must refer to the "real" unit file, and not to any aliases. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for a description of unit aliasing.</para> - <para>Two different directives are understood: - <literal>enable</literal> may be used to enable units by default, - <literal>disable</literal> to disable units by default.</para> + <para>Three different directives are understood: <literal>enable</literal> may be used to enable units by + default, <literal>disable</literal> to disable units by default, and <literal>ignore</literal> to ignore + units and leave existing configuration intact.</para> <para>If multiple lines apply to a unit name, the first matching one takes precedence over all others.</para> |