On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 18:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/13/15 18:17, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 17:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On 08/13/15 16:38, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > throws up a whole bunch of of hits which don't include the word > > > > EnvironmentFile. > > > Oh, I think I parsed your statement wrong. I should have read it > > > as > > > "more than EnvironmentFile contains that syntax such as > > > ExecStartPre". > > > > > > But that then results in a different question which can be answer > > > in > > > the same manner which results in finding the same man page and > > > the > > > following output.... > > > > > > ExecStartPre=, ExecStartPost= > > > Additional commands that are executed before or after > > > the > > > command in > > > ExecStart=, respectively. Syntax is the same as for > > > ExecStart=, > > > except that multiple command lines are allowed and the > > > commands are > > > executed one after the other, serially. > > > > > > If any of those commands (not prefixed with "-") fail, > > > the > > > rest are > > > not executed and the unit is considered failed. > > You can argue that if you like, but my point is that on seeing the > > examples the natural conclusion is that here is some new syntax I > > don't > > know about, so let me look in the systemd docs for some > > explanation. > > The fact that it's only documented in specific examples makes it > > much > > harder to find. I don't expect the syntax of environment variable > > assignments to be explained every time one of them shows up in a > > man > > page. > > I'm not arguing, I'm making statements. And, BTW, as I said I think > the usage of "-" is context dependent. Have a look at "man > systemd.slice". So it seems the question "what is the general > meaning of -" may be an invalid question. > > The only point I'm making is, the answer to the original question > seems easy to come by if one just makes the effort. Nothing more, > nothing less. And my point is that it depends. I did make a considerable effort without finding this and I'm not a newbie at this stuff. Maybe if you had just given the straight dope instead of insisting it was easy to find we wouldn't be having this discussion. I propose to leave it at that. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
