From 24ba452628f38e39890710fbb02022faa045221e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabien Poussin Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 11:09:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Updated documentation for the new user flag --- README.md | 16 +++++++++------- doc/manpages/dinitctl.8.m4 | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index dfc12a7..db37cee 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -311,10 +311,12 @@ dependents are configured). If stopping a service would also require a dependent service to stop, a warning will be issued and the `--force` option will be required. -Use the "-s" switch to talk the "system" instance of Dinit, rather than a -personal instance, e.g: +Use the "-u" switch to talk the "user" instance of Dinit, rather than the system +instance, e.g: - dinitctl -s start mysql # start system mysql service + dinitctl -u start mysql # start user mysql service + +The -u flag is implicitely set when calling dinitctl as a regular user, not when root. For complete details on the command line, use: @@ -324,9 +326,9 @@ You can "pin" a service in either the stopped or started state, which prevents it from changing state either due to a dependency/dependent or a direct command: - dinitctl -s start --pin mysql # start mysql service, pin it as "started" - dinitctl -s stop mysql # issues stop, but doesn't take effect due to pin - dinitctl -s unpin mysql # release pin; service will now stop + dinitctl start --pin mysql # start mysql service, pin it as "started" + dinitctl stop mysql # issues stop, but doesn't take effect due to pin + dinitctl unpin mysql # release pin; service will now stop You can pin a service in the stopped state in order to make sure it doesn't get started accidentally (either via a dependency or directly). You can also @@ -336,7 +338,7 @@ to restart automatically). Finally, you can list the state of all loaded services: - dinitctl -s list + dinitctl list This may result in something like the following: diff --git a/doc/manpages/dinitctl.8.m4 b/doc/manpages/dinitctl.8.m4 index 4040d0b..ca3aa37 100644 --- a/doc/manpages/dinitctl.8.m4 +++ b/doc/manpages/dinitctl.8.m4 @@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ service status. \fB\-\-help\fR display this help and exit .TP -\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-system\fR -Control the system init process. The default is to control the user process. This option selects +\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-user\fR +Control the user init process. The default is to control the system process. This option selects the path to the control socket used to communicate with the \fBdinit\fR daemon process. .TP \fB\-\-socket\-path\fR \fIsocket-path\fR, \fB\-p\fR \fIsocket-path\fR -- 2.25.1