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authorColin Walters <walters@verbum.org>2003-05-18 02:39:47 +0000
committerColin Walters <walters@verbum.org>2003-05-18 02:39:47 +0000
commitfc5e3a06cf4876fb10d0205a626e51109f29eb82 (patch)
treed769ade2a3a00f707c525aa605e3e85396bfb35a /tools/dbus-send.1
parent8826fea41716e30987511b7739f9cffab7b814c4 (diff)
2003-05-17 Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
* tools/dbus-send.c: Don't exit with an error code if --help was passed. Default to using the session bus instead of the system one. * tools/dbus-launch.c: Ditto. * tools/dbus-monitor.c: Ditto. * tools/dbus-send.1: Update with new arguments. * tools/dbus-launch.c: Emit code to export variables. New arguments -s and -c to specify shell syntax, and a bit of code to autodetect syntax. Also, allow specifying a program to run. * tools/dbus-launch.1: Update with new arguments. * tools/dbus-send.1: Ditto. * tools/dbus-monitor.1: Ditto.
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diff --git a/tools/dbus-send.1 b/tools/dbus-send.1
index 6f125c35..87aea49d 100644
--- a/tools/dbus-send.1
+++ b/tools/dbus-send.1
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dbus-send \- Send a message to a message bus
.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
.B dbus-send
-[\-\-session] [\-\-dest=SERVICE] [\-\-print-reply] <message name> [contents ...]
+[\-\-system] [\-\-dest=SERVICE] [\-\-print-reply] <message name> [contents ...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ information about the big picture.
There are two well-known message buses: the systemwide message bus
(installed on many systems as the "messagebus" service) and the
per-user-login-session message bus (started each time a user logs in).
-\fIdbus-send\fP sends messages to the system bus by default, and
-to the per-session bus if you specify \-\-session.
+\fIdbus-send\fP sends messages to the session bus by default, and
+to the system bus if you specify \-\-system.
.PP
Nearly all uses of \fIdbus-send\fP must provide the \-\-dest
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ Specify the service to receive the message.
.I "--print-reply"
Block for a reply to the message sent, and print any reply received.
.TP
-.I "--session"
-Use the per-login-session message bus instead of the systemwide bus.
+.I "--system"
+Use the system message bus instead of the session bus.
.SH AUTHOR
dbus-send was written by Philip Blundell.