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6 <refentry id=
"systemd-sysv-generator" conditional=
"HAVE_SYSV_COMPAT">
9 <title>systemd-sysv-generator
</title>
10 <productname>systemd
</productname>
14 <refentrytitle>systemd-sysv-generator
</refentrytitle>
15 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
19 <refname>systemd-sysv-generator
</refname>
20 <refpurpose>Unit generator for SysV init scripts
</refpurpose>
24 <para><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-sysv-generator
</filename></para>
28 <title>Description
</title>
30 <para><filename>systemd-sysv-generator
</filename> is a generator
31 that creates wrapper .service units for
32 <ulink url=
"https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit">SysV init
</ulink>
33 scripts in
<filename>/etc/init.d/*
</filename> at boot and when
34 configuration of the system manager is reloaded. This will allow
35 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
36 to support them similarly to native units.
</para>
38 <para><ulink url=
"http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.1.1/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html">LSB headers
</ulink>
39 in SysV init scripts are interpreted, and the ordering specified
40 in the header is turned into dependencies between the generated
41 unit and other units. The LSB facilities
42 <literal>$remote_fs
</literal>,
<literal>$network
</literal>,
43 <literal>$named
</literal>,
<literal>$portmap
</literal>,
44 <literal>$time
</literal> are supported and will be turned into
45 dependencies on specific native systemd targets. See
46 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
47 for more details.
</para>
49 <para>SysV runlevels have corresponding systemd targets
50 (
<filename>runlevel
<replaceable>X
</replaceable>.target
</filename>).
51 The wrapper unit that is generated will be wanted by those targets
52 which correspond to runlevels for which the script is
55 <para><command>systemd
</command> does not support SysV scripts as
56 part of early boot, so all wrapper units are ordered after
57 <filename>basic.target
</filename>.
</para>
59 <para><filename>systemd-sysv-generator
</filename> implements
60 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.generator
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
64 <title>See Also
</title>
66 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
67 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
68 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.target
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>