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6 systemd-run-generator - Generator for invoking commands specified on
7 the kernel command line as system service
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10 /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-run-generator
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13 systemd-run-generator is a generator that reads the kernel command line
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16 If the systemd.run= option is specified and followed by a command line,
17 a unit named kernel-command-line.service is generated for it and booted
18 into. The service has Type=oneshot set, and has SuccessAction=exit and
19 FailureAction=exit configured by default, thus ensuring that the system
20 is shut down as soon as the command completes. The exit status of the
21 command line is propagated to the invoking container manager, if this
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23 e.g. systemd-nspawn(7) does this). If this option is used multiple
24 times the unit file will contain multiple ExecStart= lines, to execute
25 all commands in order. The command is started as regular service, i.e.
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28 Use systemd.run_success_action= and systemd.run_failure_action= to
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30 "none" will leave the system running after the command completes. For
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33 systemd-run-generator implements systemd.generator(7).
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36 Use a command like the following to add a user to the user database
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42 first level of quoting ('') is processed and removed by the command
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45 and removed by systemd-run-generator. Both together make sure both
46 words of the specified command line adduser test end up in the
47 generated unit file together and are neither split apart by the command
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51 systemd(1), systemctl(1), kernel-command-line(7), systemd-nspawn(7),
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