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 <refentry id="busctl"
           xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">

   <refentryinfo>
     <title>busctl</title>
     <productname>systemd</productname>

     <authorgroup>
       <author>
         <contrib>A monkey with a typewriter</contrib>
         <firstname>Zbigniew</firstname>
         <surname>Jędrzejewski-Szmek</surname>
         <email>zbyszek@in.waw.pl</email>
       </author>
     </authorgroup>
   </refentryinfo>

   <refmeta>
     <refentrytitle>busctl</refentrytitle>
     <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
   </refmeta>

   <refnamediv>
     <refname>busctl</refname>
     <refpurpose>Introspect the bus</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>

   <refsynopsisdiv>
     <cmdsynopsis>
       <command>busctl</command>
       <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
       <arg choice="opt">COMMAND</arg>
       <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>NAME</replaceable></arg>
     </cmdsynopsis>
   </refsynopsisdiv>

   <refsect1>
     <title>Description</title>

     <para><command>busctl</command> may be used to
     introspect and monitor the D-Bus bus.</para>
   </refsect1>

   <refsect1>
     <title>Options</title>

     <para>The following options are understood:</para>

     <variablelist>
       <varlistentry>
           <term><option>--address=<replaceable>ADDRESS</replaceable></option></term>

           <listitem><para>Connect to the bus specified by
           <replaceable>ADDRESS</replaceable> instead of using suitable
           defaults for either the system or user bus (see
           <option>--system</option> and <option>--user</option>
           options).</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
           <term><option>--show-machine</option></term>

           <listitem><para>When showing the list of peers, show a
           column containing the names of containers they belong to.
           See
           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machined.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
           </para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
           <term><option>--unique</option></term>

           <listitem><para>When showing the list of peers, show only
           "unique" names (of the form
           <literal>:<replaceable>number</replaceable>.<replaceable>number</replaceable></literal>).
           </para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
           <term><option>--acquired</option></term>

           <listitem><para>The opposite of <option>--unique</option> —
           only "well-known" names will be shown.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
           <term><option>--activatable</option></term>

           <listitem><para>When showing the list of peers, show only
           peers which have actually not been activated yet, but may be
           started automatically if accessed.</para>
           </listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
           <term><option>--match=<replaceable>MATCH</replaceable></option></term>

           <listitem><para>When showing messages being exchanged, show only the
           subset matching <replaceable>MATCH</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
           <!-- TODO: link to sd_bus_add_match when it is written? -->
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><option>--size=</option></term>

         <listitem>
           <para>When used with the <command>capture</command> command
           specifies the maximum bus message size to capture
           ("snaplen"). Defaults to 4096 bytes.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><option>--list</option></term>

         <listitem>
           <para>When used with the <command>tree</command> command shows a
           flat list of object paths instead of a tree.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><option>--quiet</option></term>

         <listitem>
           <para>When used with the <command>call</command> command
           suppresses display of the response message payload. Note that even
           if this option is specified errors returned will still be
           printed and the tool will indicate success or failure with
           the process exit code.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><option>--verbose</option></term>

         <listitem>
           <para>When used with the <command>call</command> or
           <command>get-property</command> command shows output in a
           more verbose format.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><option>--expect-reply=</option><replaceable>BOOL</replaceable></term>

         <listitem>
           <para>When used with the <command>call</command> command
           specifies whether <command>busctl</command> shall wait for
           completion of the method call, output the returned method
           response data, and return success or failure via the process
           exit code. If this is set to <literal>no</literal> the
           method call will be issued but no response is expected, the
           tool terminates immediately, and thus no response can be
           shown, and no success or failure is returned via the exit
           code. To only suppress output of the reply message payload
           use <option>--quiet</option> above. Defaults to
           <literal>yes</literal>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><option>--auto-start=</option><replaceable>BOOL</replaceable></term>

         <listitem>
           <para>When used with the <command>call</command> command specifies
           whether the method call should implicitly activate the
           called service should it not be running yet but is
           configured to be auto-started. Defaults to
           <literal>yes</literal>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><option>--allow-interactive-authorization=</option><replaceable>BOOL</replaceable></term>

         <listitem>
           <para>When used with the <command>call</command> command
           specifies whether the services may enforce interactive
           authorization while executing the operation, if the security
           policy is configured for this. Defaults to
           <literal>yes</literal>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><option>--timeout=</option><replaceable>SECS</replaceable></term>

         <listitem>
           <para>When used with the <command>call</command> command
           specifies the maximum time to wait for method call
           completion. If no time unit is specified assumes
           seconds. The usual other units are understood, too (ms, us,
           s, min, h, d, w, month, y). Note that this timeout does not
           apply if <option>--expect-reply=no</option> is used as the
           tool does not wait for any reply message then. When not
           specified or when set to 0 the default of
           <literal>25s</literal> is assumed.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><option>--augment-creds=</option><replaceable>BOOL</replaceable></term>

         <listitem>
           <para>Controls whether credential data reported by
           <command>list</command> or <command>status</command> shall
           be augmented with data from
           <filename>/proc</filename>. When this is turned on the data
           shown is possibly inconsistent, as the data read from
           <filename>/proc</filename> might be more recent than rest of
           the credential information. Defaults to <literal>yes</literal>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="user" />
       <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="system" />
       <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="host" />
       <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="machine" />

       <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-pager" />
       <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-legend" />
       <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
       <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
     </variablelist>
   </refsect1>

   <refsect1>
     <title>Commands</title>

     <para>The following commands are understood:</para>

     <variablelist>
       <varlistentry>
         <term><command>list</command></term>

         <listitem><para>Show all peers on the bus, by their service
         names. By default shows both unique and well-known names, but
         this may be changed with the <option>--unique</option> and
         <option>--acquired</option> switches. This is the default
         operation if no command is specified.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><command>status</command> <arg choice="opt"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg></term>

         <listitem><para>Show process information and credentials of a
         bus service (if one is specified by its unique or well-known
         name), a process (if one is specified by its numeric PID), or
         the owner of the bus (if no parameter is
         specified).</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><command>monitor</command> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg></term>

         <listitem><para>Dump messages being exchanged. If
         <replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable> is specified, show messages
         to or from this peer, identified by its well-known or unique
         name. Otherwise, show all messages on the bus. Use Ctrl-C to
         terminate dump.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><command>capture</command> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg></term>

         <listitem><para>Similar to <command>monitor</command> but
         writes the output in pcap format (for details see the <ulink
         url="http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LibpcapFileFormat">Libpcap
         File Format</ulink> description. Make sure to redirect the
         output to STDOUT to a file. Tools like
         <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>wireshark</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
         may be used to dissect and view the generated
         files.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><command>tree</command> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg></term>

         <listitem><para>Shows an object tree of one or more
         services. If <replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable> is specified,
         show object tree of the specified services only. Otherwise,
         show all object trees of all services on the bus that acquired
         at least one well-known name.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><command>introspect</command> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>OBJECT</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="opt"><replaceable>INTERFACE</replaceable></arg></term>

         <listitem><para>Show interfaces, methods, properties and
         signals of the specified object (identified by its path) on
         the specified service. If the interface argument is passed the
         output is limited to members of the specified
         interface.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><command>call</command> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>OBJECT</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>INTERFACE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>METHOD</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="opt"><replaceable>SIGNATURE</replaceable> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>ARGUMENT</replaceable></arg></arg></term>

         <listitem><para>Invoke a method and show the response. Takes a
         service name, object path, interface name and method name. If
         parameters shall be passed to the method call a signature
         string is required, followed by the arguments, individually
         formatted as strings. For details on the formatting used, see
         below. To suppress output of the returned data use the
         <option>--quiet</option> option.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><command>get-property</command> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>OBJECT</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>INTERFACE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>PROPERTY</replaceable></arg></term>

         <listitem><para>Retrieve the current value of one or more
         object properties. Takes a service name, object path,
         interface name and property name. Multiple properties may be
         specified at once in which case their values will be shown one
         after the other, separated by newlines. The output is by
         default in terse format. Use <option>--verbose</option> for a
         more elaborate output format.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><command>set-property</command> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>OBJECT</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>INTERFACE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>PROPERTY</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SIGNATURE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>ARGUMENT</replaceable></arg></term>

         <listitem><para>Set the current value an object
         property. Takes a service name, object path, interface name,
         property name, property signature, followed by a list of
         parameters formatted as strings.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>
         <term><command>help</command></term>

         <listitem><para>Show command syntax help.</para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
     </variablelist>
   </refsect1>

   <refsect1>
     <title>Parameter Formatting</title>

     <para>The <command>call</command> and
     <command>set-property</command> commands take a signature string
     followed by a list of parameters formatted as string (for details
     on D-Bus signature strings see the <ulink
     url="http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#type-system">Type
     system chapter of the D-Bus specification</ulink>). For simple
     types each parameter following the signature should simply be the
     parameter's value formatted as string. Positive boolean values may
     be formatted as <literal>true</literal>, <literal>yes</literal>,
     <literal>on</literal>, <literal>1</literal>; negative boolean
     values may be specified as <literal>false</literal>,
     <literal>no</literal>, <literal>off</literal>,
     <literal>0</literal>. For arrays, a numeric argument for the
     number of entries followed by the entries shall be specified. For
     variants the signature of the contents shall be specified,
     followed by the contents. For dictionaries and structs the
     contents of them shall be directly specified.</para>

     <para>For example,
     <programlisting>s jawoll</programlisting> is the formatting
     of a single string <literal>jawoll</literal>.</para>

     <para>
     <programlisting>as 3 hello world foobar</programlisting>
     is the formatting of a string array with three entries,
     <literal>hello</literal>, <literal>world</literal> and
     <literal>foobar</literal>.</para>

     <para>
     <programlisting>a{sv} 3 One s Eins Two u 2 Yes b true</programlisting>
     is the formatting of a dictionary
     array that maps strings to variants, consisting of three
     entries. The string <literal>One</literal> is assigned the
     string <literal>Eins</literal>. The string
     <literal>Two</literal> is assigned the 32bit unsigned
     integer 2. The string <literal>Yes</literal> is assigned a
     positive boolean.</para>

     <para>Note that the <command>call</command>,
     <command>get-property</command>, <command>introspect</command>
     commands will also generate output in this format for the returned
     data. Since this format is sometimes too terse to be easily
     understood, the <command>call</command> and
     <command>get-property</command> commands may generate a more
     verbose, multi-line output when passed the
     <option>--verbose</option> option.</para>
   </refsect1>

   <refsect1>
     <title>Examples</title>

     <example>
       <title>Write and Read a Property</title>

       <para>The following two commands first write a property and then
       read it back. The property is found on the
       <literal>/org/freedesktop/systemd1</literal> object of the
       <literal>org.freedesktop.systemd1</literal> service. The name of
       the property is <literal>LogLevel</literal> on the
       <literal>org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager</literal>
       interface. The property contains a single string:</para>

       <programlisting># busctl set-property org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1 org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager LogLevel s debug
 # busctl get-property org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1 org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager LogLevel
 s "debug"</programlisting>

     </example>

     <example>
       <title>Terse and Verbose Output</title>

       <para>The following two commands read a property that contains
       an array of strings, and first show it in terse format, followed
       by verbose format:</para>

       <programlisting>$ busctl get-property org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1 org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager Environment
 as 2 "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" "PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"
 $ busctl get-property --verbose org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1 org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager Environment
 ARRAY "s" {
         STRING "LANG=en_US.UTF-8";
         STRING "PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin";
 };</programlisting>
     </example>

     <example>
       <title>Invoking a Method</title>

       <para>The following command invokes a the
       <literal>StartUnit</literal> method on the
       <literal>org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager</literal>
       interface of the
       <literal>/org/freedesktop/systemd1</literal> object
       of the <literal>org.freedesktop.systemd1</literal>
       service, and passes it two strings
       <literal>cups.service</literal> and
       <literal>replace</literal>. As result of the method
       call a single object path parameter is received and
       shown:</para>

       <programlisting># busctl call org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1 org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager StartUnit ss "cups.service" "replace"
 o "/org/freedesktop/systemd1/job/42684"</programlisting>
     </example>
   </refsect1>

   <refsect1>
     <title>See Also</title>

     <para>
       <citerefentry project='dbus'><refentrytitle>dbus-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
       <ulink url="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus">D-Bus</ulink>,
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-bus</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-bus-proxyd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machinectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
       <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>wireshark</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
     </para>
   </refsect1>
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	<refentry id="busctl"
	xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">

	<refentryinfo>
	<title>busctl</title>
	<productname>systemd</productname>

	<authorgroup>
	<author>
	<contrib>A monkey with a typewriter</contrib>
	<firstname>Zbigniew</firstname>
	<surname>Jędrzejewski-Szmek</surname>
	<email>zbyszek@in.waw.pl</email>
	</author>
	</authorgroup>
	</refentryinfo>

	<refmeta>
	<refentrytitle>busctl</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
	</refmeta>

	<refnamediv>
	<refname>busctl</refname>
	<refpurpose>Introspect the bus</refpurpose>
	</refnamediv>

	<refsynopsisdiv>
	<cmdsynopsis>
	<command>busctl</command>
	<arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
	<arg choice="opt">COMMAND</arg>
	<arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>NAME</replaceable></arg>
	</cmdsynopsis>
	</refsynopsisdiv>

	<refsect1>
	<title>Description</title>

	<para><command>busctl</command> may be used to
	introspect and monitor the D-Bus bus.</para>
	</refsect1>

	<refsect1>
	<title>Options</title>

	<para>The following options are understood:</para>

	<variablelist>
	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--address=<replaceable>ADDRESS</replaceable></option></term>

	<listitem><para>Connect to the bus specified by
	<replaceable>ADDRESS</replaceable> instead of using suitable
	defaults for either the system or user bus (see
	<option>--system</option> and <option>--user</option>
	options).</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--show-machine</option></term>

	<listitem><para>When showing the list of peers, show a
	column containing the names of containers they belong to.
	See
	<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machined.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
	</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--unique</option></term>

	<listitem><para>When showing the list of peers, show only
	"unique" names (of the form
	<literal>:<replaceable>number</replaceable>.<replaceable>number</replaceable></literal>).
	</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--acquired</option></term>

	<listitem><para>The opposite of <option>--unique</option> —
	only "well-known" names will be shown.</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--activatable</option></term>

	<listitem><para>When showing the list of peers, show only
	peers which have actually not been activated yet, but may be
	started automatically if accessed.</para>
	</listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--match=<replaceable>MATCH</replaceable></option></term>

	<listitem><para>When showing messages being exchanged, show only the
	subset matching <replaceable>MATCH</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
	<!-- TODO: link to sd_bus_add_match when it is written? -->
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--size=</option></term>

	<listitem>
	<para>When used with the <command>capture</command> command
	specifies the maximum bus message size to capture
	("snaplen"). Defaults to 4096 bytes.</para>
	</listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--list</option></term>

	<listitem>
	<para>When used with the <command>tree</command> command shows a
	flat list of object paths instead of a tree.</para>
	</listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--quiet</option></term>

	<listitem>
	<para>When used with the <command>call</command> command
	suppresses display of the response message payload. Note that even
	if this option is specified errors returned will still be
	printed and the tool will indicate success or failure with
	the process exit code.</para>
	</listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--verbose</option></term>

	<listitem>
	<para>When used with the <command>call</command> or
	<command>get-property</command> command shows output in a
	more verbose format.</para>
	</listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--expect-reply=</option><replaceable>BOOL</replaceable></term>

	<listitem>
	<para>When used with the <command>call</command> command
	specifies whether <command>busctl</command> shall wait for
	completion of the method call, output the returned method
	response data, and return success or failure via the process
	exit code. If this is set to <literal>no</literal> the
	method call will be issued but no response is expected, the
	tool terminates immediately, and thus no response can be
	shown, and no success or failure is returned via the exit
	code. To only suppress output of the reply message payload
	use <option>--quiet</option> above. Defaults to
	<literal>yes</literal>.</para>
	</listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--auto-start=</option><replaceable>BOOL</replaceable></term>

	<listitem>
	<para>When used with the <command>call</command> command specifies
	whether the method call should implicitly activate the
	called service should it not be running yet but is
	configured to be auto-started. Defaults to
	<literal>yes</literal>.</para>
	</listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--allow-interactive-authorization=</option><replaceable>BOOL</replaceable></term>

	<listitem>
	<para>When used with the <command>call</command> command
	specifies whether the services may enforce interactive
	authorization while executing the operation, if the security
	policy is configured for this. Defaults to
	<literal>yes</literal>.</para>
	</listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--timeout=</option><replaceable>SECS</replaceable></term>

	<listitem>
	<para>When used with the <command>call</command> command
	specifies the maximum time to wait for method call
	completion. If no time unit is specified assumes
	seconds. The usual other units are understood, too (ms, us,
	s, min, h, d, w, month, y). Note that this timeout does not
	apply if <option>--expect-reply=no</option> is used as the
	tool does not wait for any reply message then. When not
	specified or when set to 0 the default of
	<literal>25s</literal> is assumed.</para>
	</listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><option>--augment-creds=</option><replaceable>BOOL</replaceable></term>

	<listitem>
	<para>Controls whether credential data reported by
	<command>list</command> or <command>status</command> shall
	be augmented with data from
	<filename>/proc</filename>. When this is turned on the data
	shown is possibly inconsistent, as the data read from
	<filename>/proc</filename> might be more recent than rest of
	the credential information. Defaults to <literal>yes</literal>.</para>
	</listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="user" />
	<xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="system" />
	<xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="host" />
	<xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="machine" />

	<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-pager" />
	<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-legend" />
	<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
	<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
	</variablelist>
	</refsect1>

	<refsect1>
	<title>Commands</title>

	<para>The following commands are understood:</para>

	<variablelist>
	<varlistentry>
	<term><command>list</command></term>

	<listitem><para>Show all peers on the bus, by their service
	names. By default shows both unique and well-known names, but
	this may be changed with the <option>--unique</option> and
	<option>--acquired</option> switches. This is the default
	operation if no command is specified.</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><command>status</command> <arg choice="opt"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg></term>

	<listitem><para>Show process information and credentials of a
	bus service (if one is specified by its unique or well-known
	name), a process (if one is specified by its numeric PID), or
	the owner of the bus (if no parameter is
	specified).</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><command>monitor</command> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg></term>

	<listitem><para>Dump messages being exchanged. If
	<replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable> is specified, show messages
	to or from this peer, identified by its well-known or unique
	name. Otherwise, show all messages on the bus. Use Ctrl-C to
	terminate dump.</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><command>capture</command> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg></term>

	<listitem><para>Similar to <command>monitor</command> but
	writes the output in pcap format (for details see the <ulink
	url="http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LibpcapFileFormat">Libpcap
	File Format</ulink> description. Make sure to redirect the
	output to STDOUT to a file. Tools like
	<citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>wireshark</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
	may be used to dissect and view the generated
	files.</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><command>tree</command> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg></term>

	<listitem><para>Shows an object tree of one or more
	services. If <replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable> is specified,
	show object tree of the specified services only. Otherwise,
	show all object trees of all services on the bus that acquired
	at least one well-known name.</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><command>introspect</command> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>OBJECT</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="opt"><replaceable>INTERFACE</replaceable></arg></term>

	<listitem><para>Show interfaces, methods, properties and
	signals of the specified object (identified by its path) on
	the specified service. If the interface argument is passed the
	output is limited to members of the specified
	interface.</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><command>call</command> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>OBJECT</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>INTERFACE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>METHOD</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="opt"><replaceable>SIGNATURE</replaceable> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>ARGUMENT</replaceable></arg></arg></term>

	<listitem><para>Invoke a method and show the response. Takes a
	service name, object path, interface name and method name. If
	parameters shall be passed to the method call a signature
	string is required, followed by the arguments, individually
	formatted as strings. For details on the formatting used, see
	below. To suppress output of the returned data use the
	<option>--quiet</option> option.</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><command>get-property</command> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>OBJECT</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>INTERFACE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>PROPERTY</replaceable></arg></term>

	<listitem><para>Retrieve the current value of one or more
	object properties. Takes a service name, object path,
	interface name and property name. Multiple properties may be
	specified at once in which case their values will be shown one
	after the other, separated by newlines. The output is by
	default in terse format. Use <option>--verbose</option> for a
	more elaborate output format.</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><command>set-property</command> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>OBJECT</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>INTERFACE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>PROPERTY</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>SIGNATURE</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>ARGUMENT</replaceable></arg></term>

	<listitem><para>Set the current value an object
	property. Takes a service name, object path, interface name,
	property name, property signature, followed by a list of
	parameters formatted as strings.</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>

	<varlistentry>
	<term><command>help</command></term>

	<listitem><para>Show command syntax help.</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	</variablelist>
	</refsect1>

	<refsect1>
	<title>Parameter Formatting</title>

	<para>The <command>call</command> and
	<command>set-property</command> commands take a signature string
	followed by a list of parameters formatted as string (for details
	on D-Bus signature strings see the <ulink
	url="http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#type-system">Type
	system chapter of the D-Bus specification</ulink>). For simple
	types each parameter following the signature should simply be the
	parameter's value formatted as string. Positive boolean values may
	be formatted as <literal>true</literal>, <literal>yes</literal>,
	<literal>on</literal>, <literal>1</literal>; negative boolean
	values may be specified as <literal>false</literal>,
	<literal>no</literal>, <literal>off</literal>,
	<literal>0</literal>. For arrays, a numeric argument for the
	number of entries followed by the entries shall be specified. For
	variants the signature of the contents shall be specified,
	followed by the contents. For dictionaries and structs the
	contents of them shall be directly specified.</para>

	<para>For example,
	<programlisting>s jawoll</programlisting> is the formatting
	of a single string <literal>jawoll</literal>.</para>

	<para>
	<programlisting>as 3 hello world foobar</programlisting>
	is the formatting of a string array with three entries,
	<literal>hello</literal>, <literal>world</literal> and
	<literal>foobar</literal>.</para>

	<para>
	<programlisting>a{sv} 3 One s Eins Two u 2 Yes b true</programlisting>
	is the formatting of a dictionary
	array that maps strings to variants, consisting of three
	entries. The string <literal>One</literal> is assigned the
	string <literal>Eins</literal>. The string
	<literal>Two</literal> is assigned the 32bit unsigned
	integer 2. The string <literal>Yes</literal> is assigned a
	positive boolean.</para>

	<para>Note that the <command>call</command>,
	<command>get-property</command>, <command>introspect</command>
	commands will also generate output in this format for the returned
	data. Since this format is sometimes too terse to be easily
	understood, the <command>call</command> and
	<command>get-property</command> commands may generate a more
	verbose, multi-line output when passed the
	<option>--verbose</option> option.</para>
	</refsect1>

	<refsect1>
	<title>Examples</title>

	<example>
	<title>Write and Read a Property</title>

	<para>The following two commands first write a property and then
	read it back. The property is found on the
	<literal>/org/freedesktop/systemd1</literal> object of the
	<literal>org.freedesktop.systemd1</literal> service. The name of
	the property is <literal>LogLevel</literal> on the
	<literal>org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager</literal>
	interface. The property contains a single string:</para>

	<programlisting># busctl set-property org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1 org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager LogLevel s debug
	# busctl get-property org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1 org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager LogLevel
	s "debug"</programlisting>

	</example>

	<example>
	<title>Terse and Verbose Output</title>

	<para>The following two commands read a property that contains
	an array of strings, and first show it in terse format, followed
	by verbose format:</para>

	<programlisting>$ busctl get-property org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1 org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager Environment
	as 2 "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" "PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"
	$ busctl get-property --verbose org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1 org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager Environment
	ARRAY "s" {
	STRING "LANG=en_US.UTF-8";
	STRING "PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin";
	};</programlisting>
	</example>

	<example>
	<title>Invoking a Method</title>

	<para>The following command invokes a the
	<literal>StartUnit</literal> method on the
	<literal>org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager</literal>
	interface of the
	<literal>/org/freedesktop/systemd1</literal> object
	of the <literal>org.freedesktop.systemd1</literal>
	service, and passes it two strings
	<literal>cups.service</literal> and
	<literal>replace</literal>. As result of the method
	call a single object path parameter is received and
	shown:</para>

	<programlisting># busctl call org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1 org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager StartUnit ss "cups.service" "replace"
	o "/org/freedesktop/systemd1/job/42684"</programlisting>
	</example>
	</refsect1>

	<refsect1>
	<title>See Also</title>

	<para>
	<citerefentry project='dbus'><refentrytitle>dbus-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
	<ulink url="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus">D-Bus</ulink>,
	<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-bus</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
	<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
	<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-bus-proxyd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
	<citerefentry><refentrytitle>machinectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
	<citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>wireshark</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
	</para>
	</refsect1>
	</refentry>