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d657c51f 1systemd System and Service Manager
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3DETAILS:
4 http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
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6WEB SITE:
7 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
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9GIT:
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10 git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
11 ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd
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13GITWEB:
9fa2f410 14 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
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16MAILING LIST:
17 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
18 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-commits
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20IRC:
21 #systemd on irc.freenode.org
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23BUG REPORTS:
24 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=systemd
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26AUTHOR:
27 Lennart Poettering with major support from Kay Sievers
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30 GPLv2+ for all code, except sd-daemon.[ch] and
31 sd-readahead.[ch] which are MIT
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31cee6f6 33REQUIREMENTS:
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34 Linux kernel >= 2.6.39
35 with devtmpfs
36 with cgroups (but it's OK to disable all controllers)
37 optional but strongly recommended: autofs4, ipv6
ae446765 38 libudev >= 172
c1c8ca81 39 dbus >= 1.4.0
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40 libcap
41 gtk+ >= 2.20 (optional)
42 PAM >= 1.1.2 (optional)
43 libcryptsetup (optional)
44 libaudit (optional)
45 libselinux (optional)
46 tcpwrappers (optional)
47 libnotify (optional)
48
49 When you build from git you need the following additional dependencies:
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c1c8ca81 51 vala >= 0.10
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52 docbook-xsl
53 xsltproc
54 automake
55 autoconf
56 libtool
b62cfcea 57 gperf
21bc923a 58 make, gcc, and similar tools
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60 During runtime you need the following dependencies:
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c1c8ca81 62 util-linux > v2.18 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s)
21bc923a 63 sulogin (from sysvinit-tools, optional but recommended)
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64 plymouth (optional)
65 dracut (optional)
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67 When systemd-hostnamed is used it is strongly recommended to
68 install nss-myhostname to ensure that in a world of
69 dynamically changing hostnames the hostname stays resolveable
70 under all circumstances. In fact, systemd-hostnamed will warn
71 if nss-myhostname is not installed. Packagers are encouraged to
72 add a dependency on nss-myhostname to the package that
73 includes systemd-hostnamed.
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75 Note that D-Bus can link against libsystemd-login.so, which
76 results in a cyclic build dependency. To accomodate for this
77 please build D-Bus without systemd first, then build systemd,
78 then rebuild D-Bus with systemd support.
79
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80WARNINGS:
81 systemd will warn you during boot if /etc/mtab is not a
82 symlink to /proc/mounts. Please ensure that /etc/mtab is a
83 proper symlink.
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85 systemd will warn you during boot if /usr is on a different
86 file system than /. While in systemd itself very little will
ed1c99fc 87 break if /usr is on a separate partition many of its
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88 dependencies very likely will break sooner or later in one
89 form or another. For example udev rules tend to refer to
90 binaries in /usr, binaries that link to libraries in /usr or
91 binaries that refer to data files in /usr. Since these
92 breakages are not always directly visible systemd will warn
93 about this, since this kind of file system setup is not really
94 supported anymore by the basic set of Linux OS components.
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96 For more information on this issue consult
97 http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
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99ENGINEERING AND CONSULTING SERVICES:
100 ProFUSION <http://profusion.mobi> offers professional
101 engineering and consulting services for systemd for embedded
102 and other use. Please contact Gustavo Barbieri
103 <barbieri@profusion.mobi> for more information.
104
105 Disclaimer: This notice is not a recommendation or official
106 endorsement. However, ProFUSION's upstream work has been very
107 beneficial for the systemd project.