NAME¶
systemd-inhibit - Execute a program with an inhibition lock
taken
SYNOPSIS¶
systemd-inhibit [OPTIONS...]
[COMMAND] [ARGUMENTS...]
systemd-inhibit [OPTIONS...] --list
DESCRIPTION¶
systemd-inhibit may be used to execute a program with a
shutdown, sleep, or idle inhibitor lock taken. The lock will be acquired
before the specified command line is executed and released afterwards.
Inhibitor locks may be used to block or delay system sleep and
shutdown requests from the user, as well as automatic idle handling of the
OS. This is useful to avoid system suspends while an optical disc is being
recorded, or similar operations that should not be interrupted.
For more information see the Inhibitor Lock Developer
Documentation[1].
OPTIONS¶
The following options are understood:
--what=
Takes a colon-separated list of one or more operations to
inhibit: "shutdown", "sleep", "idle",
"handle-power-key", "handle-suspend-key",
"handle-hibernate-key", "handle-lid-switch", for
inhibiting reboot/power-off/halt/kexec, suspending/hibernating, the automatic
idle detection, or the low-level handling of the power/sleep key and the lid
switch, respectively. If omitted, defaults to
"idle:sleep:shutdown".
--who=
Takes a short, human-readable descriptive string for the
program taking the lock. If not passed, defaults to the command line
string.
--why=
Takes a short, human-readable descriptive string for the
reason for taking the lock. Defaults to "Unknown reason".
--mode=
Takes either "block" or "delay" and
describes how the lock is applied. If "block" is used (the default),
the lock prohibits any of the requested operations without time limit, and
only privileged users may override it. If "delay" is used, the lock
can only delay the requested operations for a limited time. If the time
elapses, the lock is ignored and the operation executed. The time limit may be
specified in
logind.conf(5). Note that "delay" is only
available for "sleep" and "shutdown".
--list
Lists all active inhibition locks instead of acquiring
one.
--no-pager
Do not pipe output into a pager.
-h, --help
Print a short help text and exit.
--version
Print a short version string and exit.
EXIT STATUS¶
Returns the exit status of the executed program.
EXAMPLE¶
# systemd-inhibit wodim foobar.iso
This burns the ISO image foobar.iso on a CD using wodim(1),
and inhibits system sleeping, shutdown and idle while doing so.
ENVIRONMENT¶
$SYSTEMD_PAGER
Pager to use when
--no-pager is not given;
overrides
$PAGER. If neither
$SYSTEMD_PAGER nor
$PAGER
are set, a set of well-known pager implementations are tried in turn,
including
less(1) and
more(1), until one is found. If no pager
implementation is discovered no pager is invoked. Setting this environment
variable to an empty string or the value "cat" is equivalent to
passing
--no-pager.
$SYSTEMD_LESS
Override the options passed to less (by default
"FRSXMK").
$SYSTEMD_LESSCHARSET
Override the charset passed to less (by default
"utf-8", if the invoking terminal is determined to be UTF-8
compatible).
$SYSTEMD_PAGERSECURE
Takes a boolean argument. When true, the
"secure" mode of the pager is enabled; if false, disabled. If
$SYSTEMD_PAGERSECURE is not set at all, secure mode is enabled if the
effective UID is not the same as the owner of the login session, see
geteuid(2) and
sd_pid_get_owner_uid(3). In secure mode,
LESSSECURE=1 will be set when invoking the pager, and the pager shall
disable commands that open or create new files or start new subprocesses. When
$SYSTEMD_PAGERSECURE is not set at all, pagers which are not known to
implement secure mode will not be used. (Currently only
less(1)
implements secure mode.)
Note: when commands are invoked with elevated privileges, for
example under sudo(8) or pkexec(1), care must be taken to
ensure that unintended interactive features are not enabled.
"Secure" mode for the pager may be enabled automatically as
describe above. Setting SYSTEMD_PAGERSECURE=0 or not removing it from
the inherited environment allows the user to invoke arbitrary commands. Note
that if the $SYSTEMD_PAGER or $PAGER variables are to be
honoured, $SYSTEMD_PAGERSECURE must be set too. It might be
reasonable to completly disable the pager using --no-pager
instead.
NOTES¶
- 1.
- Inhibitor Lock Developer Documentation