From 4fa226ff3b875bf353f0e9131835da271ecae04f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lucas Werkmeister Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 15:41:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] man: systemctl: document effect of --all on journal output MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Based on the journalctl documentation of this option added in 23ad99b519 (#10527), but with the first reference to “fields” replaced by “journal messages”, since I think it’s less common to show other fields with `systemctl status` (though it’s possible with the `-o` option). --- man/systemctl.xml | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml index b9077c55a1..08aacd8f41 100644 --- a/man/systemctl.xml +++ b/man/systemctl.xml @@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ When listing units with list-dependencies, recursively show dependencies of all dependent units (by default only dependencies of target units are shown). + + When used with status, show journal messages in full, even if they include + unprintable characters or are very long. By default, fields with unprintable characters are + abbreviated as "blob data". (Note that the pager may escape unprintable characters again.)