[systemd-devel] What exactly does 'systemctl hibernate/suspend' do? Request for better documentation.

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 30/10/12 01:26 did gyre and gimble:
> On Mon, 29.10.12 10:24, Jakob Hetzelein (nasenatmer at posteo.de) wrote:
> 
>> Dear devs,
>>
>> I appreciate your work and enjoy getting rid of the one or other package
>> which is not necessary anymore since its functionality is included in
>> systemd.
>>
>> However, in the area of suspend/hibernate, I think it would be helpful,
>> if the man pages would include more nformation as to which command is
>> used to send the system into suspend/hibernate mode. And be it only the
>> line "echo disk > /sys/power/state".
> 
> There's actually some docs available about it, try:
> 
>         systemctl help systemd-suspend.service
> 
> Of course, the missing link is figuring out that this is pulled in by
> "suspend.target", and that "systemctl suspend" just pulls that it.
> 
> I have now changed the systemctl man page to add the information so that
> people actually can discover the missing connection. (not commited yet
> though.)
> 
> (I have also updated the systemd-suspend.service man page a tiny bit to
> explain that it at its core echoes "disk" into /sys/power/state).


s/disk/mem/ I presume for suspend... :) (although I grant you that
suspend and hibernate services do share the same man page!)

Col


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