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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2020-05-21 14:05:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2020-05-26 10:28:59 +0200 |
| commit | fdf3c16d7576466b7cfa8e278e81da91cf3748ca (patch) | |
| tree | ffd9c21f99ec7de93a283cf2506b60a3944aed89 /man/systemd.service.xml | |
| parent | 253acc229cecc19a46d86cc7c329a238a552aa7e (diff) | |
| download | systemd-fdf3c16d7576466b7cfa8e278e81da91cf3748ca.tar.gz | |
man: beef up $MAINPID examples
Inspired by https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15400#discussion_r428537955.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd.service.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.service.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml index 0cfd0853c6..e8c869244a 100644 --- a/man/systemd.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd.service.xml @@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ of the daemon, and may be used for command lines like the following:</para> - <programlisting>/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID</programlisting> + <programlisting>ExecReload=kill -HUP $MAINPID</programlisting> <para>Note however that reloading a daemon by sending a signal (as with the example line above) is usually not a good choice, @@ -473,7 +473,14 @@ other. It is strongly recommended to set <varname>ExecReload=</varname> to a command that not only triggers a configuration reload of the daemon, but also - synchronously waits for it to complete.</para> + synchronously waits for it to complete. For example, + <citerefentry project='mankier'><refentrytitle>dbus-broker</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> + uses the following:</para> + + <programlisting>ExecReload=busctl call org.freedesktop.DBus \ + /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus \ + ReloadConfig +</programlisting> </listitem> </varlistentry> |