SYSTEMD-NOTIFY(1)

NAME
systemd-notify - Notify init system about start-up completion and other daemon status changes

SYNOPSIS

systemd-notify [OPTIONS...] [VARIABLE=VALUE...]

DESCRIPTION

systemd-notify may be called by daemon scripts to notify the init system about status changes. It can be used to send arbitrary information, encoded in an environment-block-like list of strings. Most importantly it can be used for start-up completion notification.

This is mostly just a wrapper around sd_notify() and makes this functionality available to shell scripts. For details see sd_notify(3).

The command line may carry a list of environment variables to send as part of the status update.

Note that systemd will refuse reception of status updates from this command unless NotifyAccess=all is set for the service unit this command is called from.

OPTIONS

The following options are understood:

--h, --help
    Prints a short help text and exits.

--version
    Prints a short version string and exits.

--ready
    Inform the init system about service start-up completion. This is equivalent to systemd-notify READY=1. For details about the semantics of this option see sd_notify(3).

--pid=
    Inform the init system about the main PID of the daemon. Takes a PID as argument. If the argument is omitted the PID of the process that invoked systemd-notify is used. This is equivalent to systemd-notify MAINPID=$PID. For details about the semantics of this option see sd_notify(3).

--status=
    Send a free-form status string for the daemon to the init systemd. This option takes the status string as argument. This is equivalent to systemd-notify STATUS=.... For details about the semantics of this option see sd_notify(3).

--booted
    Returns 0 if the system was booted up with systemd, non-zero otherwise. If this option is passed no message is sent. This option is hence unrelated to the other options. For details about the semantics of this option see sd_booted(3).

--readahead=
    Controls disk read-ahead operations. The argument must be a string, and either "cancel", "done" or "noreplay". For details about the semantics of this option see sd_readahead(3).

EXIT STATUS

On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

EXAMPLE

Example 1. Start-up Notification and Status Updates

A simple shell daemon that sends start-up notifications after having set up its communication channel. During runtime it sends further status updates to the init system:

    #!/bin/bash
    mkfifo /tmp/waldo
    systemd-notify --ready --status="Waiting for data..."
    while : ; do
            read a < /tmp/waldo
            systemd-notify --status="Processing $a"
            # Do something with $a ...
            systemd-notify --status="Waiting for data..."
    done

SEE ALSO

systemd(1), systemctl(1), systemd.unit(5), sd_notify(3), sd_booted(3)

AUTHOR

Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
    Developer