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1b907b5c 26<refentry id="systemd-system.conf"
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27 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
28 <refentryinfo>
29 <title>systemd-system.conf</title>
30 <productname>systemd</productname>
31
32 <authorgroup>
33 <author>
34 <contrib>Developer</contrib>
35 <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
36 <surname>Poettering</surname>
37 <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
38 </author>
39 </authorgroup>
40 </refentryinfo>
41
42 <refmeta>
43 <refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf</refentrytitle>
44 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
45 </refmeta>
46
47 <refnamediv>
48 <refname>systemd-system.conf</refname>
49 <refname>system.conf.d</refname>
50 <refname>systemd-user.conf</refname>
51 <refname>user.conf.d</refname>
52 <refpurpose>System and session service manager configuration files</refpurpose>
53 </refnamediv>
54
55 <refsynopsisdiv>
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56 <para><filename>/etc/systemd/system.conf</filename>,
57 <filename>/etc/systemd/system.conf.d/*.conf</filename>,
58 <filename>/run/systemd/system.conf.d/*.conf</filename>,
59 <filename>/usr/lib/systemd/system.conf.d/*.conf</filename></para>
60 <para><filename>/etc/systemd/user.conf</filename>,
61 <filename>/etc/systemd/user.conf.d/*.conf</filename>,
62 <filename>/run/systemd/user.conf.d/*.conf</filename>,
63 <filename>/usr/lib/systemd/user.conf.d/*.conf</filename></para>
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64 </refsynopsisdiv>
65
66 <refsect1>
67 <title>Description</title>
68
69 <para>When run as a system instance, systemd interprets the
70 configuration file <filename>system.conf</filename> and the files
71 in <filename>system.conf.d</filename> directories; when run as a
72 user instance, systemd interprets the configuration file
73 <filename>user.conf</filename> and the files in
74 <filename>user.conf.d</filename> directories. These configuration
75 files contain a few settings controlling basic manager
76 operations.</para>
77 </refsect1>
78
e93549ef 79 <xi:include href="standard-conf.xml" xpointer="main-conf" />
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80
81 <refsect1>
82 <title>Options</title>
83
84 <para>All options are configured in the
85 <literal>[Manager]</literal> section:</para>
86
87 <variablelist class='systemd-directives'>
88
89 <varlistentry>
90 <term><varname>LogLevel=</varname></term>
91 <term><varname>LogTarget=</varname></term>
92 <term><varname>LogColor=</varname></term>
93 <term><varname>LogLocation=</varname></term>
94 <term><varname>DumpCore=yes</varname></term>
b9e74c39 95 <term><varname>CrashChangeVT=no</varname></term>
798d3a52 96 <term><varname>CrashShell=no</varname></term>
b9e74c39 97 <term><varname>CrashReboot=no</varname></term>
798d3a52 98 <term><varname>ShowStatus=yes</varname></term>
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99 <term><varname>DefaultStandardOutput=journal</varname></term>
100 <term><varname>DefaultStandardError=inherit</varname></term>
101
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102 <listitem><para>Configures various parameters of basic manager operation. These options may be overridden by
103 the respective process and kernel command line arguments. See
104 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
105 details.</para></listitem>
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106 </varlistentry>
107
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108 <varlistentry>
109 <term><varname>CtrlAltDelBurstAction=</varname></term>
110
111 <listitem><para>Defines what action will be performed
2dd67817 112 if user presses Ctrl-Alt-Delete more than 7 times in 2s.
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113 Can be set to <literal>reboot-force</literal>, <literal>poweroff-force</literal>,
114 <literal>reboot-immediate</literal>, <literal>poweroff-immediate</literal>
115 or disabled with <literal>none</literal>. Defaults to
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116 <literal>reboot-force</literal>.
117 </para></listitem>
118 </varlistentry>
119
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120 <varlistentry>
121 <term><varname>CPUAffinity=</varname></term>
122
123 <listitem><para>Configures the initial CPU affinity for the
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124 init process. Takes a list of CPU indices or ranges separated
125 by either whitespace or commas. CPU ranges are specified by
126 the lower and upper CPU indices separated by a
127 dash.</para></listitem>
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128 </varlistentry>
129
130 <varlistentry>
131 <term><varname>JoinControllers=cpu,cpuacct net_cls,netprio</varname></term>
132
133 <listitem><para>Configures controllers that shall be mounted
134 in a single hierarchy. By default, systemd will mount all
135 controllers which are enabled in the kernel in individual
136 hierarchies, with the exception of those listed in this
137 setting. Takes a space-separated list of comma-separated
138 controller names, in order to allow multiple joined
139 hierarchies. Defaults to 'cpu,cpuacct'. Pass an empty string
140 to ensure that systemd mounts all controllers in separate
141 hierarchies.</para>
142
143 <para>Note that this option is only applied once, at very
144 early boot. If you use an initial RAM disk (initrd) that uses
145 systemd, it might hence be necessary to rebuild the initrd if
146 this option is changed, and make sure the new configuration
147 file is included in it. Otherwise, the initrd might mount the
148 controller hierarchies in a different configuration than
149 intended, and the main system cannot remount them
150 anymore.</para></listitem>
151 </varlistentry>
152
153 <varlistentry>
154 <term><varname>RuntimeWatchdogSec=</varname></term>
155 <term><varname>ShutdownWatchdogSec=</varname></term>
156
157 <listitem><para>Configure the hardware watchdog at runtime and
158 at reboot. Takes a timeout value in seconds (or in other time
159 units if suffixed with <literal>ms</literal>,
160 <literal>min</literal>, <literal>h</literal>,
161 <literal>d</literal>, <literal>w</literal>). If
162 <varname>RuntimeWatchdogSec=</varname> is set to a non-zero
163 value, the watchdog hardware
164 (<filename>/dev/watchdog</filename>) will be programmed to
165 automatically reboot the system if it is not contacted within
166 the specified timeout interval. The system manager will ensure
167 to contact it at least once in half the specified timeout
168 interval. This feature requires a hardware watchdog device to
169 be present, as it is commonly the case in embedded and server
170 systems. Not all hardware watchdogs allow configuration of the
171 reboot timeout, in which case the closest available timeout is
172 picked. <varname>ShutdownWatchdogSec=</varname> may be used to
173 configure the hardware watchdog when the system is asked to
174 reboot. It works as a safety net to ensure that the reboot
175 takes place even if a clean reboot attempt times out. By
176 default <varname>RuntimeWatchdogSec=</varname> defaults to 0
177 (off), and <varname>ShutdownWatchdogSec=</varname> to 10min.
178 These settings have no effect if a hardware watchdog is not
179 available.</para></listitem>
180 </varlistentry>
181
182 <varlistentry>
183 <term><varname>CapabilityBoundingSet=</varname></term>
184
185 <listitem><para>Controls which capabilities to include in the
186 capability bounding set for PID 1 and its children. See
187 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>capabilities</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
188 for details. Takes a whitespace-separated list of capability
189 names as read by
3ba3a79d 190 <citerefentry project='mankier'><refentrytitle>cap_from_name</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
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191 Capabilities listed will be included in the bounding set, all
192 others are removed. If the list of capabilities is prefixed
193 with ~, all but the listed capabilities will be included, the
194 effect of the assignment inverted. Note that this option also
195 affects the respective capabilities in the effective,
196 permitted and inheritable capability sets. The capability
197 bounding set may also be individually configured for units
198 using the <varname>CapabilityBoundingSet=</varname> directive
199 for units, but note that capabilities dropped for PID 1 cannot
200 be regained in individual units, they are lost for
201 good.</para></listitem>
202 </varlistentry>
203
204 <varlistentry>
205 <term><varname>SystemCallArchitectures=</varname></term>
206
207 <listitem><para>Takes a space-separated list of architecture
208 identifiers. Selects from which architectures system calls may
209 be invoked on this system. This may be used as an effective
210 way to disable invocation of non-native binaries system-wide,
211 for example to prohibit execution of 32-bit x86 binaries on
212 64-bit x86-64 systems. This option operates system-wide, and
213 acts similar to the
214 <varname>SystemCallArchitectures=</varname> setting of unit
215 files, see
216 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
217 for details. This setting defaults to the empty list, in which
218 case no filtering of system calls based on architecture is
219 applied. Known architecture identifiers are
220 <literal>x86</literal>, <literal>x86-64</literal>,
221 <literal>x32</literal>, <literal>arm</literal> and the special
222 identifier <literal>native</literal>. The latter implicitly
223 maps to the native architecture of the system (or more
224 specifically, the architecture the system manager was compiled
225 for). Set this setting to <literal>native</literal> to
226 prohibit execution of any non-native binaries. When a binary
227 executes a system call of an architecture that is not listed
228 in this setting, it will be immediately terminated with the
229 SIGSYS signal.</para></listitem>
230 </varlistentry>
231
232 <varlistentry>
233 <term><varname>TimerSlackNSec=</varname></term>
234
235 <listitem><para>Sets the timer slack in nanoseconds for PID 1,
236 which is inherited by all executed processes, unless
237 overridden individually, for example with the
238 <varname>TimerSlackNSec=</varname> setting in service units
239 (for details see
240 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>).
241 The timer slack controls the accuracy of wake-ups triggered by
242 system timers. See
243 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>prctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
244 for more information. Note that in contrast to most other time
245 span definitions this parameter takes an integer value in
246 nano-seconds if no unit is specified. The usual time units are
247 understood too.</para></listitem>
248 </varlistentry>
249
250 <varlistentry>
251 <term><varname>DefaultTimerAccuracySec=</varname></term>
252
253 <listitem><para>Sets the default accuracy of timer units. This
254 controls the global default for the
255 <varname>AccuracySec=</varname> setting of timer units, see
256 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.timer</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
257 for details. <varname>AccuracySec=</varname> set in individual
258 units override the global default for the specific unit.
259 Defaults to 1min. Note that the accuracy of timer units is
260 also affected by the configured timer slack for PID 1, see
261 <varname>TimerSlackNSec=</varname> above.</para></listitem>
262 </varlistentry>
263
264 <varlistentry>
265 <term><varname>DefaultTimeoutStartSec=</varname></term>
266 <term><varname>DefaultTimeoutStopSec=</varname></term>
267 <term><varname>DefaultRestartSec=</varname></term>
268
269 <listitem><para>Configures the default timeouts for starting
270 and stopping of units, as well as the default time to sleep
271 between automatic restarts of units, as configured per-unit in
272 <varname>TimeoutStartSec=</varname>,
273 <varname>TimeoutStopSec=</varname> and
274 <varname>RestartSec=</varname> (for services, see
275 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
276 for details on the per-unit settings). For non-service units,
277 <varname>DefaultTimeoutStartSec=</varname> sets the default
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278 <varname>TimeoutSec=</varname>
279 value. <varname>DefaultTimeoutStartSec=</varname> and
280 <varname>DefaultTimeoutStopSec=</varname> default to
281 90s. <varname>DefaultRestartSec=</varname> defaults to
282 100ms.</para></listitem>
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283 </varlistentry>
284
285 <varlistentry>
f0367da7 286 <term><varname>DefaultStartLimitIntervalSec=</varname></term>
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287 <term><varname>DefaultStartLimitBurst=</varname></term>
288
289 <listitem><para>Configure the default unit start rate
290 limiting, as configured per-service by
f0367da7 291 <varname>StartLimitIntervalSec=</varname> and
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292 <varname>StartLimitBurst=</varname>. See
293 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
f5a05fb5 294 for details on the per-service settings.
f0367da7 295 <varname>DefaultStartLimitIntervalSec=</varname> defaults to
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296 10s. <varname>DefaultStartLimitBurst=</varname> defaults to
297 5.</para></listitem>
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298 </varlistentry>
299
300 <varlistentry>
301 <term><varname>DefaultEnvironment=</varname></term>
302
303 <listitem><para>Sets manager environment variables passed to
304 all executed processes. Takes a space-separated list of
305 variable assignments. See
306 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
307 for details about environment variables.</para>
308
309 <para>Example:
310
311 <programlisting>DefaultEnvironment="VAR1=word1 word2" VAR2=word3 "VAR3=word 5 6"</programlisting>
312
313 Sets three variables
314 <literal>VAR1</literal>,
315 <literal>VAR2</literal>,
316 <literal>VAR3</literal>.</para></listitem>
317 </varlistentry>
318
319 <varlistentry>
320 <term><varname>DefaultCPUAccounting=</varname></term>
321 <term><varname>DefaultBlockIOAccounting=</varname></term>
322 <term><varname>DefaultMemoryAccounting=</varname></term>
03a7b521 323 <term><varname>DefaultTasksAccounting=</varname></term>
8d8631d4 324 <term><varname>DefaultIPAccounting=</varname></term>
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326 <listitem><para>Configure the default resource accounting settings, as configured per-unit by
327 <varname>CPUAccounting=</varname>, <varname>BlockIOAccounting=</varname>, <varname>MemoryAccounting=</varname>,
328 <varname>TasksAccounting=</varname> and <varname>IPAccounting=</varname>. See
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330 for details on the per-unit settings. <varname>DefaultTasksAccounting=</varname> defaults to on, the other
331 four settings to off.</para></listitem>
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332 </varlistentry>
333
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334 <varlistentry>
335 <term><varname>DefaultTasksMax=</varname></term>
336
79baeeb9 337 <listitem><para>Configure the default value for the per-unit <varname>TasksMax=</varname> setting. See
0af20ea2 338 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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339 for details. This setting applies to all unit types that support resource control settings, with the exception
340 of slice units. Defaults to 15%, which equals 4915 with the kernel's defaults on the host, but might be smaller
341 in OS containers.</para></listitem>
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342 </varlistentry>
343
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344 <varlistentry>
345 <term><varname>DefaultLimitCPU=</varname></term>
346 <term><varname>DefaultLimitFSIZE=</varname></term>
347 <term><varname>DefaultLimitDATA=</varname></term>
348 <term><varname>DefaultLimitSTACK=</varname></term>
349 <term><varname>DefaultLimitCORE=</varname></term>
350 <term><varname>DefaultLimitRSS=</varname></term>
351 <term><varname>DefaultLimitNOFILE=</varname></term>
352 <term><varname>DefaultLimitAS=</varname></term>
353 <term><varname>DefaultLimitNPROC=</varname></term>
354 <term><varname>DefaultLimitMEMLOCK=</varname></term>
355 <term><varname>DefaultLimitLOCKS=</varname></term>
356 <term><varname>DefaultLimitSIGPENDING=</varname></term>
357 <term><varname>DefaultLimitMSGQUEUE=</varname></term>
358 <term><varname>DefaultLimitNICE=</varname></term>
359 <term><varname>DefaultLimitRTPRIO=</varname></term>
360 <term><varname>DefaultLimitRTTIME=</varname></term>
361
362 <listitem><para>These settings control various default
363 resource limits for units. See
364 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>setrlimit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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365 for details. The resource limit is possible to specify in two formats,
366 <option>value</option> to set soft and hard limits to the same value,
367 or <option>soft:hard</option> to set both limits individually (e.g. DefaultLimitAS=4G:16G).
368 Use the string <varname>infinity</varname> to
369 configure no limit on a specific resource. The multiplicative
370 suffixes K (=1024), M (=1024*1024) and so on for G, T, P and E
371 may be used for resource limits measured in bytes
372 (e.g. DefaultLimitAS=16G). For the limits referring to time values,
373 the usual time units ms, s, min, h and so on may be used (see
374 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.time</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
375 for details). Note that if no time unit is specified for
376 <varname>DefaultLimitCPU=</varname> the default unit of seconds is
377 implied, while for <varname>DefaultLimitRTTIME=</varname> the default
378 unit of microseconds is implied. Also, note that the effective
379 granularity of the limits might influence their
380 enforcement. For example, time limits specified for
381 <varname>DefaultLimitCPU=</varname> will be rounded up implicitly to
382 multiples of 1s. These settings may be overridden in individual units
383 using the corresponding LimitXXX= directives. Note that these resource
384 limits are only defaults for units, they are not applied to PID 1
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385 itself.</para></listitem>
386 </varlistentry>
387 </variablelist>
388 </refsect1>
389
390 <refsect1>
391 <title>See Also</title>
392 <para>
393 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
394 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.directives</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
395 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
396 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
397 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
398 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>capabilities</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
399 </para>
400 </refsect1>
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402</refentry>