busctl systemd A monkey with a typewriter Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek@in.waw.pl busctl 1 busctl Introspect the bus busctl OPTIONS COMMAND NAME Description busctl may be used to introspect and monitor the D-Bus bus. Options The following options are understood: Connect to the bus specified by ADDRESS instead of using suitable defaults for either the system or user bus (see and options). When showing the list of endpoints, show a column containing the names of containers they belong to. See systemd-machined.service8. When showing the list of endpoints, show only "unique" names (of the form :number.number). The opposite of — only "well-known" names will be shown. When showing the list of endpoints, show only endpoints which have actually not been activated yet, but may be started automatically if accessed. When showing messages being exchanged, show only the subset matching MATCH. Do not print the legend, i.e. the column headers and the footer. Commands The following commands are understood: list Show endpoints attached to the bus. This is the default if no command is specified. monitor NAME Dump messages being exchanged. If NAME is specified, show messages to or from this endpoint. Otherwise, show all messages on the bus. status NAME Show process information and credentials of a bus endpoint. help Show command syntax help. See Also dbus-daemon1, D-Bus, kdbus, sd-bus3, systemd1, systemd-bus-proxyd8, machinectl1