diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
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--- a/man/systemctl.xml
+++ b/man/systemctl.xml
@@ -217,25 +217,24 @@ Sun 2017-02-26 20:57:49 EST 2h 3min left Sun 2017-02-26 11:56:36 EST 6h ago
, , or are used, units
are additionally filtered by the TYPE and ACTIVE state.
- This function is intended to generate human-readable
- output. If you are looking for computer-parsable output,
- use show instead. By default, this
- function only shows 10 lines of output and ellipsizes
- lines to fit in the terminal window. This can be changed
- with and ,
- see above. In addition, journalctl
- --unit=NAME or
- journalctl
- --user-unit=NAME use
- a similar filter for messages and might be more
- convenient.
-
+ This function is intended to generate human-readable output. If you are looking for
+ computer-parsable output, use show instead. By default, this function only
+ shows 10 lines of output and ellipsizes lines to fit in the terminal window. This can be changed
+ with and , see above. In addition,
+ journalctl --unit=NAME or journalctl
+ --user-unit=NAME use a similar filter for messages and might
+ be more convenient.
- systemd implicitly loads units as necessary, so just running the status will
- attempt to load a file. The command is thus not useful for determining if something was already loaded or
- not. The units may possibly also be quickly unloaded after the operation is completed if there's no reason
- to keep it in memory thereafter.
-
+ Note that this operation only displays runtime status, i.e. information about
+ the current invocation of the unit (if it is running) or the most recent invocation (if it is not
+ running anymore, and has not been released from memory). Information about earlier invocations,
+ invocations from previous system boots, or prior invocations that have already been released from
+ memory may be retrieved via journalctl --unit=.
+
+ systemd implicitly loads units as necessary, so just running the status
+ will attempt to load a file. The command is thus not useful for determining if something was
+ already loaded or not. The units may possibly also be quickly unloaded after the operation is
+ completed if there's no reason to keep it in memory thereafter.Example output from systemctl status