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systemctl: list unit introspection verbs first, modification second

The list was rather ad hoc, with "reset-failed" sandwiched between
"help" and "list-dependencies". Since a person will usually either want
to introspect state in various ways or modify state in a certain way, let's
put all the introspection commands together and all the ones that actually
have an effect second.
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<para>The following commands are understood:</para>
<refsect2>
<title>Unit Commands</title>
<title>Unit Commands (Introspection and Modification)</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
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</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>is-active <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Check whether any of the specified units are active
(i.e. running). Returns an exit code
<constant>0</constant> if at least one is active, or
non-zero otherwise. Unless <option>--quiet</option> is
specified, this will also print the current unit state to
standard output.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>is-failed <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Check whether any of the specified units are in a
"failed" state. Returns an exit code
<constant>0</constant> if at least one has failed,
non-zero otherwise. Unless <option>--quiet</option> is
specified, this will also print the current unit state to
standard output.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>status</command> <optional><replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>…|<replaceable>PID</replaceable>…]</optional></term>
<listitem>
<para>Show terse runtime status information about one or
more units, followed by most recent log data from the
journal. If no units are specified, show system status. If
combined with <option>--all</option>, also show the status of
all units (subject to limitations specified with
<option>-t</option>). If a PID is passed, show information
about the unit the process belongs to.</para>
<para>This function is intended to generate human-readable
output. If you are looking for computer-parsable output,
use <command>show</command> 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 <option>--lines</option> and <option>--full</option>,
see above. In addition, <command>journalctl
--unit=<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></command> or
<command>journalctl
--user-unit=<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></command> use
a similar filter for messages and might be more
convenient.
</para>
<para>systemd implicitly loads units as necessary, so just running the <command>status</command> 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.
</para>
<example>
<title>Example output from systemctl status </title>
<programlisting>$ systemctl status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2017-01-04 13:54:04 EST; 1 weeks 0 days ago
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 930 (bluetoothd)
Status: "Running"
Tasks: 1
Memory: 648.0K
CPU: 435ms
CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
└─930 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd
Jan 12 10:46:45 example.com bluetoothd[8900]: Not enough free handles to register service
Jan 12 10:46:45 example.com bluetoothd[8900]: Current Time Service could not be registered
Jan 12 10:46:45 example.com bluetoothd[8900]: gatt-time-server: Input/output error (5)
</programlisting>
<para>The dot ("●") uses color on supported terminals to summarize the unit state at a glance. White
indicates an <literal>inactive</literal> or <literal>deactivating</literal> state. Red indicates a
<literal>failed</literal> or <literal>error</literal> state and green indicates an
<literal>active</literal>, <literal>reloading</literal> or <literal>activating</literal> state.
</para>
<para>The "Loaded:" line in the output will show <literal>loaded</literal> if the unit has been loaded into
memory. Other possible values for "Loaded:" include: <literal>error</literal> if there was a problem
loading it, <literal>not-found</literal> if no unit file was found for this unit,
<literal>bad-setting</literal> if an essential unit file setting could not be parsed and
<literal>masked</literal> if the unit file has been masked. Along with showing the path to the unit file,
this line will also show the enablement state. Enabled commands start at boot. See the full table of
possible enablement states — including the definition of <literal>masked</literal> — in the documentation
for the <command>is-enabled</command> command.
</para>
<para>The "Active:" line shows active state. The value is usually <literal>active</literal> or
<literal>inactive</literal>. Active could mean started, bound, plugged in, etc depending on the unit type.
The unit could also be in process of changing states, reporting a state of <literal>activating</literal> or
<literal>deactivating</literal>. A special <literal>failed</literal> state is entered when the service
failed in some way, such as a crash, exiting with an error code or timing out. If the failed state is
entered the cause will be logged for later reference.</para>
</example>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>show</command> <optional><replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>…|<replaceable>JOB</replaceable></optional></term>
<listitem>
<para>Show properties of one or more units, jobs, or the manager itself. If no argument is specified,
properties of the manager will be shown. If a unit name is specified, properties of the unit are shown, and
if a job ID is specified, properties of the job are shown. By default, empty properties are suppressed. Use
<option>--all</option> to show those too. To select specific properties to show, use
<option>--property=</option>. This command is intended to be used whenever computer-parsable output is
required. Use <command>status</command> if you are looking for formatted human-readable output.</para>
<para>Many properties shown by <command>systemctl show</command> map directly to configuration settings of
the system and service manager and its unit files. Note that the properties shown by the command are
generally more low-level, normalized versions of the original configuration settings and expose runtime
state in addition to configuration. For example, properties shown for service units include the service's
current main process identifier as <literal>MainPID</literal> (which is runtime state), and time settings
are always exposed as properties ending in the <literal>…USec</literal> suffix even if a matching
configuration options end in <literal>…Sec</literal>, because microseconds is the normalized time unit used
internally by the system and service manager.</para>
<para>For details about many of these properties, see the documentation of the D-Bus interface
backing these properties, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>org.freedesktop.systemd1</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>cat <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Show backing files of one or more units. Prints the
"fragment" and "drop-ins" (source files) of units. Each
file is preceded by a comment which includes the file
name. Note that this shows the contents of the backing files
on disk, which may not match the system manager's
understanding of these units if any unit files were
updated on disk and the <command>daemon-reload</command>
command wasn't issued since.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>help <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>…|<replaceable>PID</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Show manual pages for one or more units, if
available. If a PID is given, the manual pages for the unit
the process belongs to are shown.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<command>list-dependencies</command>
<optional><replaceable>UNIT</replaceable>...</optional>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Shows units required and wanted by the specified
units. This recursively lists units following the
<varname>Requires=</varname>,
<varname>Requisite=</varname>,
<varname>ConsistsOf=</varname>,
<varname>Wants=</varname>, <varname>BindsTo=</varname>
dependencies. If no units are specified,
<filename>default.target</filename> is implied.</para>
<para>By default, only target units are recursively
expanded. When <option>--all</option> is passed, all other
units are recursively expanded as well.</para>
<para>Options <option>--reverse</option>,
<option>--after</option>, <option>--before</option>
may be used to change what types of dependencies
are shown.</para>
<para>Note that this command only lists units currently loaded into memory by the service manager. In
particular, this command is not suitable to get a comprehensive list at all reverse dependencies on a
specific unit, as it won't list the dependencies declared by units currently not loaded.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<!-- Commands that modify unit state start here -->
<varlistentry>
<term><command>start <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable></command></term>
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processes in the unit's cgroup.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>is-active <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Check whether any of the specified units are active
(i.e. running). Returns an exit code
<constant>0</constant> if at least one is active, or
non-zero otherwise. Unless <option>--quiet</option> is
specified, this will also print the current unit state to
standard output.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>is-failed <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Check whether any of the specified units are in a
"failed" state. Returns an exit code
<constant>0</constant> if at least one has failed,
non-zero otherwise. Unless <option>--quiet</option> is
specified, this will also print the current unit state to
standard output.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>status</command> <optional><replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>…|<replaceable>PID</replaceable>…]</optional></term>
<listitem>
<para>Show terse runtime status information about one or
more units, followed by most recent log data from the
journal. If no units are specified, show system status. If
combined with <option>--all</option>, also show the status of
all units (subject to limitations specified with
<option>-t</option>). If a PID is passed, show information
about the unit the process belongs to.</para>
<para>This function is intended to generate human-readable
output. If you are looking for computer-parsable output,
use <command>show</command> 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 <option>--lines</option> and <option>--full</option>,
see above. In addition, <command>journalctl
--unit=<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></command> or
<command>journalctl
--user-unit=<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></command> use
a similar filter for messages and might be more
convenient.
</para>
<para>systemd implicitly loads units as necessary, so just running the <command>status</command> 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.
</para>
<example>
<title>Example output from systemctl status </title>
<programlisting>$ systemctl status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2017-01-04 13:54:04 EST; 1 weeks 0 days ago
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 930 (bluetoothd)
Status: "Running"
Tasks: 1
Memory: 648.0K
CPU: 435ms
CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
└─930 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd
Jan 12 10:46:45 example.com bluetoothd[8900]: Not enough free handles to register service
Jan 12 10:46:45 example.com bluetoothd[8900]: Current Time Service could not be registered
Jan 12 10:46:45 example.com bluetoothd[8900]: gatt-time-server: Input/output error (5)
</programlisting>
<para>The dot ("●") uses color on supported terminals to summarize the unit state at a glance. White
indicates an <literal>inactive</literal> or <literal>deactivating</literal> state. Red indicates a
<literal>failed</literal> or <literal>error</literal> state and green indicates an
<literal>active</literal>, <literal>reloading</literal> or <literal>activating</literal> state.
</para>
<para>The "Loaded:" line in the output will show <literal>loaded</literal> if the unit has been loaded into
memory. Other possible values for "Loaded:" include: <literal>error</literal> if there was a problem
loading it, <literal>not-found</literal> if no unit file was found for this unit,
<literal>bad-setting</literal> if an essential unit file setting could not be parsed and
<literal>masked</literal> if the unit file has been masked. Along with showing the path to the unit file,
this line will also show the enablement state. Enabled commands start at boot. See the full table of
possible enablement states — including the definition of <literal>masked</literal> — in the documentation
for the <command>is-enabled</command> command.
</para>
<para>The "Active:" line shows active state. The value is usually <literal>active</literal> or
<literal>inactive</literal>. Active could mean started, bound, plugged in, etc depending on the unit type.
The unit could also be in process of changing states, reporting a state of <literal>activating</literal> or
<literal>deactivating</literal>. A special <literal>failed</literal> state is entered when the service
failed in some way, such as a crash, exiting with an error code or timing out. If the failed state is
entered the cause will be logged for later reference.</para>
</example>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>show</command> <optional><replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>…|<replaceable>JOB</replaceable></optional></term>
<listitem>
<para>Show properties of one or more units, jobs, or the manager itself. If no argument is specified,
properties of the manager will be shown. If a unit name is specified, properties of the unit are shown, and
if a job ID is specified, properties of the job are shown. By default, empty properties are suppressed. Use
<option>--all</option> to show those too. To select specific properties to show, use
<option>--property=</option>. This command is intended to be used whenever computer-parsable output is
required. Use <command>status</command> if you are looking for formatted human-readable output.</para>
<para>Many properties shown by <command>systemctl show</command> map directly to configuration settings of
the system and service manager and its unit files. Note that the properties shown by the command are
generally more low-level, normalized versions of the original configuration settings and expose runtime
state in addition to configuration. For example, properties shown for service units include the service's
current main process identifier as <literal>MainPID</literal> (which is runtime state), and time settings
are always exposed as properties ending in the <literal>…USec</literal> suffix even if a matching
configuration options end in <literal>…Sec</literal>, because microseconds is the normalized time unit used
internally by the system and service manager.</para>
<para>For details about many of these properties, see the documentation of the D-Bus interface
backing these properties, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>org.freedesktop.systemd1</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>cat <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Show backing files of one or more units. Prints the
"fragment" and "drop-ins" (source files) of units. Each
file is preceded by a comment which includes the file
name. Note that this shows the contents of the backing files
on disk, which may not match the system manager's
understanding of these units if any unit files were
updated on disk and the <command>daemon-reload</command>
command wasn't issued since.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>set-property <replaceable>UNIT</replaceable> <replaceable>PROPERTY</replaceable>=<replaceable>VALUE</replaceable></command></term>
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</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>help <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>…|<replaceable>PID</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Show manual pages for one or more units, if
available. If a PID is given, the manual pages for the unit
the process belongs to are shown.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>reset-failed [<replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>…]</command></term>
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to be started again, use this command to make it startable again.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<command>list-dependencies</command>
<optional><replaceable>UNIT</replaceable>...</optional>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Shows units required and wanted by the specified
units. This recursively lists units following the
<varname>Requires=</varname>,
<varname>Requisite=</varname>,
<varname>ConsistsOf=</varname>,
<varname>Wants=</varname>, <varname>BindsTo=</varname>
dependencies. If no units are specified,
<filename>default.target</filename> is implied.</para>
<para>By default, only target units are recursively
expanded. When <option>--all</option> is passed, all other
units are recursively expanded as well.</para>
<para>Options <option>--reverse</option>,
<option>--after</option>, <option>--before</option>
may be used to change what types of dependencies
are shown.</para>
<para>Note that this command only lists units currently loaded into memory by the service manager. In
particular, this command is not suitable to get a comprehensive list at all reverse dependencies on a
specific unit, as it won't list the dependencies declared by units currently not loaded.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect2>

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" ordered by address\n"
" list-timers [PATTERN...] List timer units currently in memory,\n"
" ordered by next elapse\n"
" is-active PATTERN... Check whether units are active\n"
" is-failed PATTERN... Check whether units are failed\n"
" status [PATTERN...|PID...] Show runtime status of one or more units\n"
" show [PATTERN...|JOB...] Show properties of one or more\n"
" units/jobs or the manager\n"
" cat PATTERN... Show files and drop-ins of specified units\n"
" help PATTERN...|PID... Show manual for one or more units\n"
" list-dependencies [UNIT...] Recursively show units which are required\n"
" or wanted by the units or by which those\n"
" units are required or wanted\n"
" start UNIT... Start (activate) one or more units\n"
" stop UNIT... Stop (deactivate) one or more units\n"
" reload UNIT... Reload one or more units\n"
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" configuration of unit\n"
" freeze PATTERN... Freeze execution of unit processes\n"
" thaw PATTERN... Resume execution of a frozen unit\n"
" is-active PATTERN... Check whether units are active\n"
" is-failed PATTERN... Check whether units are failed\n"
" status [PATTERN...|PID...] Show runtime status of one or more units\n"
" show [PATTERN...|JOB...] Show properties of one or more\n"
" units/jobs or the manager\n"
" cat PATTERN... Show files and drop-ins of specified units\n"
" set-property UNIT PROPERTY=VALUE... Sets one or more properties of a unit\n"
" help PATTERN...|PID... Show manual for one or more units\n"
" reset-failed [PATTERN...] Reset failed state for all, one, or more\n"
" units\n"
" list-dependencies [UNIT...] Recursively show units which are required\n"
" or wanted by the units or by which those\n"
" units are required or wanted"
" units"
"\n%3$sUnit File Commands:%4$s\n"
" list-unit-files [PATTERN...] List installed unit files\n"
" enable [UNIT...|PATH...] Enable one or more unit files\n"