systemd-notify(1)

SYSTEMD-NOTIFY(1)               systemd-notify               SYSTEMD-NOTIFY(1)

NAME
       systemd-notify - Notify service manager 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= is set for the service unit this command
       is called from.

       Note that sd_notify() notifications may be attributed to units
       correctly only if either the sending process is still around at the
       time PID 1 processes the message, or if the sending process is
       explicitly runtime-tracked by the service manager. The latter is the
       case if the service manager originally forked off the process, i.e. on
       all processes that match NotifyAccess=main or NotifyAccess=exec.
       Conversely, if an auxiliary process of the unit sends an sd_notify()
       message and immediately exits, the service manager might not be able to
       properly attribute the message to the unit, and thus will ignore it,
       even if NotifyAccess=all is set for it.

       systemd-notify will first attempt to invoke sd_notify() pretending to
       have the PID of the invoking process. This will only succeed when
       invoked with sufficient privileges. On failure, it will then fall back
       to invoking it under its own PID. This behaviour is useful in order
       that when the tool is invoked from a shell script the shell process --
       and not the systemd-notify process -- appears as sender of the message,
       which in turn is helpful if the shell process is the main process of a
       service, due to the limitations of NotifyAccess=all described above.

OPTIONS
       The following options are understood:

       --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).

       --uid=USER
           Set the user ID to send the notification from. Takes a UNIX user
           name or numeric UID. When specified the notification message will
           be sent with the specified UID as sender, in place of the user the
           command was invoked as. This option requires sufficient privileges
           in order to be able manipulate the user identity of the process.

       --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). An alternate way to
           check for this state is to call systemctl(1) with the
           is-system-running command. It will return "offline" if the system
           was not booted with systemd.

       -h, --help
           Print a short help text and exit.

       --version
           Print a short version string and exit.

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)

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