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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:
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27 Lennart Poettering
28 Kay Sievers
29 ...and many others
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673eab9b 31LICENSE:
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32 LGPLv2.1+ for all code
33 - except sd-daemon.[ch] and sd-readahead.[ch] which are MIT
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34 - except src/shared/MurmurHash3.c which is Public Domain
35 - except src/journal/lookup3.c which is Public Domain
36 - except src/udev/* which is (currently still) GPLv2, GPLv2+
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31cee6f6 38REQUIREMENTS:
e946948e 39 Linux kernel >= 3.0
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40 CONFIG_DEVTMPFS
41 CONFIG_CGROUPS (it's OK to disable all controllers)
42 CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER
43 CONFIG_SIGNALFD
44 CONFIG_TIMERFD
45 CONFIG_EPOLL
41938693 46 CONFIG_NET
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47 CONFIG_SYSFS
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49 Linux kernel >= 3.8 for Smack support
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713bc0cf 51 Udev will fail to work with the legacy layout:
f28cbd03 52 CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n
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54 Legacy hotplug slows down the system and confuses udev:
55 CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH=""
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57 Userspace firmware loading is deprecated, will go away, and
58 sometimes causes problems:
59 CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n
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61 Some udev rules and virtualization detection relies on it:
62 CONFIG_DMIID
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64 Mount and bind mount handling might require it:
65 CONFIG_FHANDLE
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67 Support for some SCSI devices serial number retrieval, to
68 create additional symlinks in /dev/disk/ and /dev/tape:
69 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG
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71 Optional but strongly recommended:
72 CONFIG_IPV6
73 CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS
74 CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
75 CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR
f28cbd03 76 CONFIG_SECCOMP
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78 For systemd-bootchart, a kernel with procfs support and
79 several proc output options enabled is required:
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80 CONFIG_PROC_FS
81 CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
82 CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
83
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84 For UEFI systems:
85 CONFIG_EFI_VARS
86 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION
87
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88 Note that kernel auditing is broken when used with systemd's
89 container code. When using systemd in conjunction with
19aadacf 90 containers, please make sure to either turn off auditing at
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91 runtime using the kernel command line option "audit=0", or
92 turn it off at kernel compile time using:
93 CONFIG_AUDIT=n
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ff70c61b 95 glibc >= 2.14
3ede835a 96 libcap
e3043162 97 libblkid >= 2.20 (from util-linux) (optional)
a18535d9 98 libkmod >= 15 (optional)
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99 PAM >= 1.1.2 (optional)
100 libcryptsetup (optional)
101 libaudit (optional)
19d5d4cb 102 libacl (optional)
fb0951b0 103 libattr (optional)
3ede835a 104 libselinux (optional)
19d5d4cb 105 liblzma (optional)
3ede835a 106 tcpwrappers (optional)
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107 libgcrypt (optional)
108 libqrencode (optional)
109 libmicrohttpd (optional)
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110 libpython (optional)
111 make, gcc, and similar tools
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113 During runtime, you need the following additional
114 dependencies:
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c3d2d86d 116 util-linux >= v2.19 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s)
df41776d 117 dbus >= 1.4.0 (strictly speaking optional, but recommended)
c3d2d86d 118 sulogin (from util-linux >= 2.22 or sysvinit-tools, optional but recommended)
2cc86f09 119 dracut (optional)
46ba8aae 120 PolicyKit (optional)
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122 When building from git, you need the following additional
123 dependencies:
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125 docbook-xsl
126 xsltproc
127 automake
128 autoconf
129 libtool
19d5d4cb 130 intltool
b62cfcea 131 gperf
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132 gtkdocize (optional)
133 python (optional)
9015fa64 134 sphinx (optional)
80cb917e 135 python-lxml (entirely optional)
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137 When systemd-hostnamed is used, it is strongly recommended to
138 install nss-myhostname to ensure that, in a world of
139 dynamically changing hostnames, the hostname stays resolvable
fff2e5b5 140 under all circumstances. In fact, systemd-hostnamed will warn
bf9e477c 141 if nss-myhostname is not installed.
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143 To build HTML documentation for python-systemd using sphinx,
144 please first install systemd (using 'make install'), and then
145 invoke sphinx-build with 'make sphinx-<target>', with <target>
146 being 'html' or 'latexpdf'. If using DESTDIR for installation,
147 pass the same DESTDIR to 'make sphinx-html' invocation.
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a24c64f0 149USERS AND GROUPS:
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150 Default udev rules use the following standard system group
151 names, which need to be resolvable by getgrnam() at any time,
152 even in the very early boot stages, where no other databases
153 and network are available:
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155 tty, dialout, kmem, video, audio, lp, floppy, cdrom, tape, disk
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19aadacf 157 During runtime, the journal daemon requires the
1a9ce3f7 158 "systemd-journal" system group to exist. New journal files will
19aadacf 159 be readable by this group (but not writable), which may be used
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160 to grant specific users read access.
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162 It is also recommended to grant read access to all journal
163 files to the system groups "wheel" and "adm" with a command
164 like the following in the post installation script of the
165 package:
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167 # setfacl -nm g:wheel:rx,d:g:wheel:rx,g:adm:rx,d:g:adm:rx /var/log/journal/
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1a9ce3f7 170 "systemd-journal-gateway" system user and group to
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171 exist. During execution this network facing service will drop
172 privileges and assume this uid/gid for security reasons.
173
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174WARNINGS:
175 systemd will warn you during boot if /etc/mtab is not a
176 symlink to /proc/mounts. Please ensure that /etc/mtab is a
177 proper symlink.
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179 systemd will warn you during boot if /usr is on a different
180 file system than /. While in systemd itself very little will
19aadacf 181 break if /usr is on a separate partition, many of its
21bc923a 182 dependencies very likely will break sooner or later in one
19aadacf 183 form or another. For example, udev rules tend to refer to
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184 binaries in /usr, binaries that link to libraries in /usr or
185 binaries that refer to data files in /usr. Since these
19aadacf 186 breakages are not always directly visible, systemd will warn
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187 about this, since this kind of file system setup is not really
188 supported anymore by the basic set of Linux OS components.
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190 For more information on this issue consult
191 http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
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193 To run systemd under valgrind, compile with VALGRIND defined
194 (e.g. ./configure CPPFLAGS='... -DVALGRIND=1'). Otherwise,
195 false positives will be triggered by code which violates
196 some rules but is actually safe.