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SYSTEMD-INHIBIT(1)		systemd-inhibit		    SYSTEMD-INHIBIT(1)

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.

OPTIONS
       The following options are understood:

       --h, --help
	   Prints a short help text and exits.

       --version
	   Prints a short version string and exits.

       --what=
	   Takes a colon separated list of one or more operations to inhibit:
	   shutdown, sleep, idle, for inhibiting reboot/power-off/halt/kexec,
	   suspending/hibernating, resp. the automatic idle detection.

       --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 systemd-logind.conf(5).

       --list
	   Lists all active inhibition locks instead of acquiring one.

EXIT STATUS
       Returns the exit status of the executed program.

SEE ALSO
       systemd(1), systemd-logind.conf(5)

AUTHOR
       Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
	   Developer

systemd				  02/15/2013		    SYSTEMD-INHIBIT(1)

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