systemd-system-update-generator(8)

systemd-system-update-generator8

Generator for redirecting boot to offline update mode

Usage

/usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-system-update-generator

Overview

systemd-system-update-generator is a generator that automatically redirects the boot process to system-update.target, if /system-update or /etc/system-update exists. This is required to implement the logic explained in the systemd.offline-updates(7).

systemd-system-update-generator implements systemd.generator(7).

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

From systemd 262.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.