From d38802e8810f95674c30be97010873920986989d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 03:26:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] man: document explicitly that network-online.target doesn't track connectivity state dynamically (#7345) Fixes: #5909 --- man/systemd.special.xml | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/systemd.special.xml b/man/systemd.special.xml index bb0c796377..30fd8f6b0c 100644 --- a/man/systemd.special.xml +++ b/man/systemd.special.xml @@ -443,6 +443,10 @@ it. Note that networking daemons that simply provide functionality to other hosts generally do not need to pull this in. + + Note that this unit is only useful during the original system start-up logic. After the system has + completed booting up, it will not track the online state of the system anymore. Due to this it cannot be used + as a network connection monitor concept, it is purely a one-time system start-up concept.