list-dependencies [UNIT...]

Action

Prints a chain of dependencies required for the service to start

Options

--all

Purpose

Expand every unit

Example

systemctl list-dependencies --all

--reverse

--after

--before

Example output

% systemctl list-dependencies dbus.service
dbus.service
● ├─dbus.socket
● ├─system.slice
● └─sysinit.target
●   ├─apparmor.service
●   ├─dev-hugepages.mount
●   ├─dev-mqueue.mount
●   ├─keyboard-setup.service
●   ├─kmod-static-nodes.service
●   ├─plymouth-read-write.service
●   ├─plymouth-start.service
●   ├─proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount
●   ├─setvtrgb.service
●   ├─sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
●   ├─sys-kernel-config.mount
●   ├─sys-kernel-debug.mount
●   ├─sys-kernel-tracing.mount
○   ├─systemd-ask-password-console.path
○   ├─systemd-binfmt.service
○   ├─systemd-boot-system-token.service
●   ├─systemd-journal-flush.service
●   ├─systemd-journald.service
○   ├─systemd-machine-id-commit.service
●   ├─systemd-modules-load.service
○   ├─systemd-pstore.service
●   ├─systemd-random-seed.service
●   ├─systemd-sysctl.service
●   ├─systemd-sysusers.service
●   ├─systemd-timesyncd.service
●   ├─systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
●   ├─systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
●   ├─systemd-udev-trigger.service
●   ├─systemd-udevd.service
●   ├─systemd-update-utmp.service
●   ├─cryptsetup.target
●   ├─local-fs.target
●   │ ├─-.mount
●   │ ├─boot-efi.mount
○   │ ├─systemd-fsck-root.service
●   │ └─systemd-remount-fs.service
●   ├─swap.target
●   │ └─swapfile.swap
●   └─veritysetup.target