From 59e78701ecb4039f42f5e77692af97e498118479 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephane Chazelas Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:53:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] systemd-cat does not connect the standard *input* of a process to the journal The first paragraph of the description of the systemd-cat utility incorrectly referred to stdin when it obviously meant stderr: the other fd that it connects to the journal via a unix(7) domain socket, as clarified in the following paragraphs. I've also replaced "process" with "command" as in that mode, systemd-cat executes a file and does not spawn a process. --- man/systemd-cat.xml | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/systemd-cat.xml b/man/systemd-cat.xml index b60984b8a0..6691fc4d56 100644 --- a/man/systemd-cat.xml +++ b/man/systemd-cat.xml @@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ Description systemd-cat may be used to connect the - standard input and output of a process to the journal, or as a - filter tool in a shell pipeline to pass the output the previous - pipeline element generates to the journal. + standard output and error output of a command to the journal, or + as a filter tool in a shell pipeline to pass the output the + previous pipeline element generates to the journal. If no parameter is passed, systemd-cat will write everything it reads from standard input (stdin) to the