1 systemd System and Service Manager
4 http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
7 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
10 git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
11 ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd
14 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
17 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
18 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-commits
21 #systemd on irc.freenode.org
24 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=systemd
32 LGPLv2.1+ for all code
33 - except sd-readahead.[ch] which is MIT
34 - except src/shared/MurmurHash2.c which is Public Domain
35 - except src/shared/siphash24.c which is CC0 Public Domain
36 - except src/journal/lookup3.c which is Public Domain
37 - except src/udev/* which is (currently still) GPLv2, GPLv2+
41 Linux kernel >= 3.3 for loop device partition support features with nspawn
42 Linux kernel >= 3.8 for Smack support
44 Kernel Config Options:
46 CONFIG_CGROUPS (it is OK to disable all controllers)
54 CONFIG_FHANDLE (libudev, mount and bind mount handling)
56 Udev will fail to work with the legacy layout:
57 CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n
59 Legacy hotplug slows down the system and confuses udev:
60 CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH=""
62 Userspace firmware loading is deprecated, will go away, and
63 sometimes causes problems:
64 CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n
66 Some udev rules and virtualization detection relies on it:
69 Support for some SCSI devices serial number retrieval, to
70 create additional symlinks in /dev/disk/ and /dev/tape:
73 Required for PrivateNetwork in service units:
76 Optional but strongly recommended:
79 CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
83 Required for CPUShares in resource control unit settings
85 CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
87 For systemd-bootchart, several proc debug interfaces are required:
95 Note that kernel auditing is broken when used with systemd's
96 container code. When using systemd in conjunction with
97 containers, please make sure to either turn off auditing at
98 runtime using the kernel command line option "audit=0", or
99 turn it off at kernel compile time using:
101 If systemd is compiled with libseccomp support on
102 architectures which do not use socketcall() and where seccomp
103 is supported (this effectively means x86-64 and ARM, but
104 excludes 32-bit x86!), then nspawn will now install a
105 work-around seccomp filter that makes containers boot even
106 with audit being enabled. This works correctly only on kernels
107 3.14 and newer though. TL;DR: turn audit off, still.
111 libseccomp >= 1.0.0 (optional)
112 libblkid >= 2.20 (from util-linux) (optional)
113 libkmod >= 15 (optional)
114 PAM >= 1.1.2 (optional)
115 libcryptsetup (optional)
118 libselinux (optional)
121 libqrencode (optional)
122 libmicrohttpd (optional)
124 gobject-introspection > 1.40.0 (optional)
125 elfutils >= 158 (optional)
126 make, gcc, and similar tools
128 During runtime, you need the following additional
131 util-linux >= v2.19 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s),
132 v2.21 required for tests in test/
133 dbus >= 1.4.0 (strictly speaking optional, but recommended)
134 sulogin (from util-linux >= 2.22 or sysvinit-tools, optional but recommended,
135 required for tests in test/)
139 When building from git, you need the following additional
151 python-lxml (optional, but required to build the indices)
154 When systemd-hostnamed is used, it is strongly recommended to
155 install nss-myhostname to ensure that, in a world of
156 dynamically changing hostnames, the hostname stays resolvable
157 under all circumstances. In fact, systemd-hostnamed will warn
158 if nss-myhostname is not installed.
160 To build HTML documentation for python-systemd using sphinx,
161 please first install systemd (using 'make install'), and then
162 invoke sphinx-build with 'make sphinx-<target>', with <target>
163 being 'html' or 'latexpdf'. If using DESTDIR for installation,
164 pass the same DESTDIR to 'make sphinx-html' invocation.
167 Default udev rules use the following standard system group
168 names, which need to be resolvable by getgrnam() at any time,
169 even in the very early boot stages, where no other databases
170 and network are available:
172 audio, cdrom, dialout, disk, input, kmem, lp, tape, tty, video
174 During runtime, the journal daemon requires the
175 "systemd-journal" system group to exist. New journal files will
176 be readable by this group (but not writable), which may be used
177 to grant specific users read access.
179 It is also recommended to grant read access to all journal
180 files to the system groups "wheel" and "adm" with a command
181 like the following in the post installation script of the
184 # setfacl -nm g:wheel:rx,d:g:wheel:rx,g:adm:rx,d:g:adm:rx /var/log/journal/
186 The journal gateway daemon requires the
187 "systemd-journal-gateway" system user and group to
188 exist. During execution this network facing service will drop
189 privileges and assume this uid/gid for security reasons.
191 Similarly, the NTP daemon requires the "systemd-timesync" system
192 user and group to exist.
194 Similarly, the network management daemon requires the
195 "systemd-network" system user and group to exist.
197 Similarly, the name resolution daemon requires the
198 "systemd-resolve" system user and group to exist.
200 Similarly, the kdbus dbus1 proxy daemon requires the
201 "systemd-bus-proxy" system user and group to exist.
204 systemd will warn you during boot if /etc/mtab is not a
205 symlink to /proc/mounts. Please ensure that /etc/mtab is a
208 systemd will warn you during boot if /usr is on a different
209 file system than /. While in systemd itself very little will
210 break if /usr is on a separate partition, many of its
211 dependencies very likely will break sooner or later in one
212 form or another. For example, udev rules tend to refer to
213 binaries in /usr, binaries that link to libraries in /usr or
214 binaries that refer to data files in /usr. Since these
215 breakages are not always directly visible, systemd will warn
216 about this, since this kind of file system setup is not really
217 supported anymore by the basic set of Linux OS components.
219 systemd requires that the /run mount point exists. systemd also
220 requires that /var/run is a a symlink to /run.
222 For more information on this issue consult
223 http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
225 To run systemd under valgrind, compile with VALGRIND defined
226 (e.g. ./configure CPPFLAGS='... -DVALGRIND=1'). Otherwise,
227 false positives will be triggered by code which violates
228 some rules but is actually safe.