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systemd System and Service Manager
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DETAILS:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
WEB SITE:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
GIT:
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git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd
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GITWEB:
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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
IRC:
#systemd on irc.freenode.org
BUG REPORTS:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=systemd
AUTHOR:
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Lennart Poettering
Kay Sievers
...and many others
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LICENSE:
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LGPLv2.1+ for all code
- except sd-daemon.[ch] and sd-readahead.[ch] which are MIT
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- except src/udev/ which is GPLv2.0+
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REQUIREMENTS:
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Linux kernel >= 2.6.39
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CONFIG_DEVTMPFS
CONFIG_CGROUPS (it's OK to disable all controllers)
CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER
CONFIG_SIGNALFD
CONFIG_TIMERFD
CONFIG_EPOLL
CONFIG_HOTPLUG
CONFIG_SYSFS
Udev will fail to work with the legacy layout:
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED*=n
Legacy hotplug slows down the system and confuses udev:
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH=""
Userspace firmware loading is deprecated, will go away, and
sometimes causes problems:
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n
Some udev rules and virtualization detection relies on it:
CONFIG_DMIID
Mount and bind mount handling might require it:
CONFIG_FHANDLE
Optional but strongly recommended:
CONFIG_IPV6
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS
CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR
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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dbus >= 1.4.0
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libcap
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libblkid >= 2.20 (from util-linux) (optional)
libkmod >= 5 (optional)
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PAM >= 1.1.2 (optional)
libcryptsetup (optional)
libaudit (optional)
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libacl (optional)
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libattr (optional)
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libselinux (optional)
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liblzma (optional)
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tcpwrappers (optional)
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libgcrypt (optional)
libqrencode (optional)
libmicrohttpd (optional)
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libpython (optional)
make, gcc, and similar tools
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)
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dracut (optional)
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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
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intltool
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gperf
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gtkdocize (optional)
python (optional)
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sphinx (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
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dynamically changing hostnames the hostname stays resolvable
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under all circumstances. In fact, systemd-hostnamed will warn
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if nss-myhostname is not installed.
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Note that D-Bus can link against libsystemd-login.so, which
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results in a cyclic build dependency. To accommodate for this
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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:
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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:
tty, dialout, kmem, video, audio, lp, floppy, cdrom, tape, disk
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During runtime the journal daemon requires the
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"systemd-journal" system group to exist. New journal files will
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be readable by this group (but not writable) which may be used
to grant specific users read access.
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:
# 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
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"systemd-journal-gateway" system user and group to
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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.
systemd will warn you during boot if /usr is on a different
file system than /. While in systemd itself very little will
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break if /usr is on a separate partition many of its
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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.