| systemd System and Service Manager |
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| DETAILS: |
| http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html |
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| WEB SITE: |
| http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd |
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| GIT: |
| git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd |
| ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd |
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| GITWEB: |
| http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd |
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| MAILING LIST: |
| http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel |
| http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-commits |
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| IRC: |
| #systemd on irc.freenode.org |
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| BUG REPORTS: |
| https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=systemd |
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| AUTHOR: |
| Lennart Poettering |
| Kay Sievers |
| ...and many others |
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| LICENSE: |
| LGPLv2.1+ for all code |
| - except sd-daemon.[ch] and sd-readahead.[ch] which are MIT |
| - except src/udev/ which is (currently still) GPLv2+ |
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| REQUIREMENTS: |
| Linux kernel >= 2.6.39 |
| CONFIG_DEVTMPFS |
| CONFIG_CGROUPS (it's OK to disable all controllers) |
| CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER |
| CONFIG_SIGNALFD |
| CONFIG_TIMERFD |
| CONFIG_EPOLL |
| CONFIG_NET |
| CONFIG_SYSFS |
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| Linux kernel >= 3.8 for Smack support |
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| Udev will fail to work with the legacy layout: |
| CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n |
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| Legacy hotplug slows down the system and confuses udev: |
| CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="" |
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| Userspace firmware loading is deprecated, will go away, and |
| sometimes causes problems: |
| CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n |
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| Some udev rules and virtualization detection relies on it: |
| CONFIG_DMIID |
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| Mount and bind mount handling might require it: |
| CONFIG_FHANDLE |
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| Optional but strongly recommended: |
| CONFIG_IPV6 |
| CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS |
| CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL |
| CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR |
| CONFIG_SECCOMP |
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| For systemd-bootchart a kernel with procfs support and several |
| proc output options enabled is required: |
| CONFIG_PROC_FS |
| CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS |
| CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG |
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| For UEFI systems: |
| CONFIG_EFI_VARS |
| CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION |
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| Note that kernel auditing is broken when used with systemd's |
| container code. When using systemd in conjunction with |
| containers please make sure to either turn off auditing at |
| runtime using the kernel command line option "audit=0", or |
| turn it off at kernel compile time using: |
| CONFIG_AUDIT=n |
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| dbus >= 1.4.0 |
| libcap |
| libblkid >= 2.20 (from util-linux) (optional) |
| libkmod >= 5 (optional) |
| PAM >= 1.1.2 (optional) |
| libcryptsetup (optional) |
| libaudit (optional) |
| libacl (optional) |
| libattr (optional) |
| libselinux (optional) |
| liblzma (optional) |
| tcpwrappers (optional) |
| libgcrypt (optional) |
| libqrencode (optional) |
| libmicrohttpd (optional) |
| libpython (optional) |
| make, gcc, and similar tools |
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| During runtime you need the following additional dependencies: |
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| util-linux >= v2.19 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s) |
| sulogin (from util-linux >= 2.22 or sysvinit-tools, optional but recommended) |
| dracut (optional) |
| PolicyKit (optional) |
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| When building from git you need the following additional dependencies: |
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| docbook-xsl |
| xsltproc |
| automake |
| autoconf |
| libtool |
| intltool |
| gperf |
| gtkdocize (optional) |
| python (optional) |
| sphinx (optional) |
| python-lxml (entirely optional) |
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| When systemd-hostnamed is used it is strongly recommended to |
| install nss-myhostname to ensure that in a world of |
| dynamically changing hostnames the hostname stays resolvable |
| under all circumstances. In fact, systemd-hostnamed will warn |
| if nss-myhostname is not installed. |
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| Note that D-Bus can link against libsystemd-login.so, which |
| results in a cyclic build dependency. To accommodate for this |
| please build D-Bus without systemd first, then build systemd, |
| then rebuild D-Bus with systemd support. |
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| To build HTML documentation for python-systemd using sphinx, |
| please first install systemd (using 'make install'), and then |
| invoke sphinx-build with 'make sphinx-<target>', with <target> |
| being 'html' or 'latexpdf'. If using DESTDIR for installation, |
| pass the same DESTDIR to 'make sphinx-html' invocation. |
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| USERS AND GROUPS: |
| Default udev rules use the following standard system group |
| names, which need to be resolvable by getgrnam() at any time, |
| even in the very early boot stages, where no other databases |
| and network are available: |
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| tty, dialout, kmem, video, audio, lp, floppy, cdrom, tape, disk |
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| During runtime the journal daemon requires the |
| "systemd-journal" system group to exist. New journal files will |
| be readable by this group (but not writable) which may be used |
| to grant specific users read access. |
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| It is also recommended to grant read access to all journal |
| files to the system groups "wheel" and "adm" with a command |
| like the following in the post installation script of the |
| package: |
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| # setfacl -nm g:wheel:rx,d:g:wheel:rx,g:adm:rx,d:g:adm:rx /var/log/journal/ |
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| The journal gateway daemon requires the |
| "systemd-journal-gateway" system user and group to |
| exist. During execution this network facing service will drop |
| privileges and assume this uid/gid for security reasons. |
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| WARNINGS: |
| systemd will warn you during boot if /etc/mtab is not a |
| symlink to /proc/mounts. Please ensure that /etc/mtab is a |
| proper symlink. |
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| systemd will warn you during boot if /usr is on a different |
| file system than /. While in systemd itself very little will |
| break if /usr is on a separate partition many of its |
| dependencies very likely will break sooner or later in one |
| form or another. For example udev rules tend to refer to |
| binaries in /usr, binaries that link to libraries in /usr or |
| binaries that refer to data files in /usr. Since these |
| breakages are not always directly visible systemd will warn |
| about this, since this kind of file system setup is not really |
| supported anymore by the basic set of Linux OS components. |
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| For more information on this issue consult |
| http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken |
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| To run systemd under valgrind, compile with VALGRIND defined |
| (e.g. ./configure CPPFLAGS='... -DVALGRIND=1'). Otherwise, |
| false positives will be triggered by code which violates |
| some rules but is actually safe. |