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As you likely know, Arch Linux is in the process of moving to systemd. So I was reading through the various systemd docs and quickly became baffled by this new abbreviation "resp.", which I've never seen before in my English-mother-tongue life. Some quick Googling turned up a reference: <http://www.transblawg.eu/index.php?/archives/870-Resp.-and-other-non-existent-English-wordsNicht-existente-englische-Woerter.html> I guess it's a literal translation of the German "Beziehungsweise", but English doesn't work the same way. The word "respectively" is used exclusively to provide an ordering connection between two lists. E.g. "the prefixes k, M, and G refer to kilo-, mega-, and giga-, respectively." It is also never abbreviated to "resp." So the sentence "Sets the default output resp. error output for all services and sockets" makes no sense to a natural English speaker. This patch removes all instances of "resp." in the man pages and replaces them with sentences which are much more clear and, hopefully, grammatically valid. In almost all instances, it was simply replacing "resp." with "or," which the original author (Lennart?) could probably just do in the future. The only other instances of "resp." are in the src/ subtree, which I don't feel privileged to correct. Signed-off-by: Andrew Eikum <aeikum@codeweavers.com>
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<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
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<!--
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This file is part of systemd.
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Copyright 2012 Lennart Poettering
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systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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Lesser General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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-->
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<refentry id="systemd-cat">
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<refentryinfo>
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<title>systemd-cat</title>
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<productname>systemd</productname>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<contrib>Developer</contrib>
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<firstname>Lennart</firstname>
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<surname>Poettering</surname>
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<email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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</refentryinfo>
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<refmeta>
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<refentrytitle>systemd-cat</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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</refmeta>
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<refnamediv>
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<refname>systemd-cat</refname>
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<refpurpose>Connect a pipeline or program's output with the journal</refpurpose>
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</refnamediv>
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<refsynopsisdiv>
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<cmdsynopsis>
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<command>systemd-cat <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> <arg>COMMAND</arg> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">ARGUMENTS</arg></command>
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</cmdsynopsis>
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<cmdsynopsis>
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<command>systemd-cat <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg></command>
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</cmdsynopsis>
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</refsynopsisdiv>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Description</title>
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<para><command>systemd-cat</command> may be used to
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connect STDOUT and STDERR of a process with the
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journal, or as a filter tool in a shell pipeline to
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pass the output the previous pipeline element
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generates to the journal.</para>
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<para>If no parameter is passed
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<command>systemd-cat</command> will write
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everything it reads from standard input (STDIN) to the journal.</para>
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<para>If parameters are passed they are executed as
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command line with standard output (STDOUT) and standard
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error output (STDERR) connected to the journal, so
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that all it writes is stored in the journal.</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Options</title>
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<para>The following options are understood:</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><option>-h</option></term>
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<term><option>--help</option></term>
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<listitem><para>Prints a short help
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text and exits.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><option>--version</option></term>
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<listitem><para>Prints a short version
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string and exits.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><option>-t</option></term>
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<term><option>--identifier=</option></term>
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<listitem><para>Specify a short string
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that is used to identify the logging
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tool. If not specified no identifying
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string is written to the journal.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><option>-p</option></term>
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<term><option>--priority=</option></term>
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<listitem><para>Specify the default
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priority level for the logged
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messages. Pass one of
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<literal>emerg</literal>,
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<literal>alert</literal>,
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<literal>crit</literal>,
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<literal>err</literal>,
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<literal>warning</literal>,
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<literal>notice</literal>,
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<literal>info</literal>,
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<literal>debug</literal>, or a
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value between 0 and 7 (corresponding
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to the same named levels). These
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priority values are the same as
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defined by
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Defaults
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to <literal>info</literal>. Note that
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this simply controls the default,
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individual lines may be logged with
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different levels if they are prefixed
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accordingly. For details see
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<option>--level-prefix=</option>
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below.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><option>--level-prefix=</option></term>
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<listitem><para>Controls whether lines
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read are parsed for syslog priority
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level prefixes. If enabled (the
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default) a line prefixed with a
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priority prefix such as
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<literal><5></literal> is logged
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at priority 5
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(<literal>notice</literal>), and
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similar for the other priority
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levels. Takes a boolean
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argument.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Exit status</title>
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<para>On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
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code otherwise.</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Examples</title>
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<example>
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<title>Invoke a program</title>
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<para>This calls <filename>/bin/ls</filename>
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with STDOUT/STDERR connected to the
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journal:</para>
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<programlisting># systemd-cat ls</programlisting>
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</example>
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<example>
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<title>Usage in a shell pipeline</title>
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<para>This builds a shell pipeline also
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invoking <filename>/bin/ls</filename> and
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writes the output it generates to the
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journal:</para>
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<programlisting># ls | systemd-cat</programlisting>
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</example>
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<para>Even though the two examples have very similar
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effects the first is preferable since only one process
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is running at a time, and both STDOUT and STDERR are
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captured while in the second example only STDOUT is
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captured.</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>See Also</title>
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<para>
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>logger</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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</refentry>
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