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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2013-03-26 15:16:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2013-03-26 15:24:44 +0100 |
| commit | dfebfe67dd66e909ec2f982177faa8d4f70acb88 (patch) | |
| tree | 3cee8e7c332253e67cfcd1a71ce7bc6487d2ceef /man/systemd.special.xml | |
| parent | a87586a17160f9a57fdc63604c48392cccb33454 (diff) | |
man: document that the passive units cannot be pulled in mnaully
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.special.xml | 8 |
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diff --git a/man/systemd.special.xml b/man/systemd.special.xml index b77b60d92..b7340ed97 100644 --- a/man/systemd.special.xml +++ b/man/systemd.special.xml @@ -811,6 +811,14 @@ (via a <varname>Wants=</varname> type dependency).</para> + <para>Note that these passive units cannot be started + manually, i.e. <literal>systemctl start + time-sync.target</literal> will fail with an + error. They can only be pulled in by dependency. This + is enforced since they exist for ordering purposes + only and thus are not useful as only unit within a + transaction.</para> + <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><filename>local-fs-pre.target</filename></term> |