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)
120 liblz4 >= 119 (optional)
122 libqrencode (optional)
123 libmicrohttpd (optional)
126 gobject-introspection > 1.40.0 (optional)
127 elfutils >= 158 (optional)
128 make, gcc, and similar tools
130 During runtime, you need the following additional
133 util-linux >= v2.19 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s),
134 v2.21 required for tests in test/
135 dbus >= 1.4.0 (strictly speaking optional, but recommended)
136 sulogin (from util-linux >= 2.22 or sysvinit-tools, optional but recommended,
137 required for tests in test/)
141 When building from git, you need the following additional
153 python-lxml (optional, but required to build the indices)
156 When systemd-hostnamed is used, it is strongly recommended to
157 install nss-myhostname to ensure that, in a world of
158 dynamically changing hostnames, the hostname stays resolvable
159 under all circumstances. In fact, systemd-hostnamed will warn
160 if nss-myhostname is not installed.
162 To build HTML documentation for python-systemd using sphinx,
163 please first install systemd (using 'make install'), and then
164 invoke sphinx-build with 'make sphinx-<target>', with <target>
165 being 'html' or 'latexpdf'. If using DESTDIR for installation,
166 pass the same DESTDIR to 'make sphinx-html' invocation.
169 Default udev rules use the following standard system group
170 names, which need to be resolvable by getgrnam() at any time,
171 even in the very early boot stages, where no other databases
172 and network are available:
174 audio, cdrom, dialout, disk, input, kmem, lp, tape, tty, video
176 During runtime, the journal daemon requires the
177 "systemd-journal" system group to exist. New journal files will
178 be readable by this group (but not writable), which may be used
179 to grant specific users read access.
181 It is also recommended to grant read access to all journal
182 files to the system groups "wheel" and "adm" with a command
183 like the following in the post installation script of the
186 # setfacl -nm g:wheel:rx,d:g:wheel:rx,g:adm:rx,d:g:adm:rx /var/log/journal/
188 The journal gateway daemon requires the
189 "systemd-journal-gateway" system user and group to
190 exist. During execution this network facing service will drop
191 privileges and assume this uid/gid for security reasons.
193 Similarly, the NTP daemon requires the "systemd-timesync" system
194 user and group to exist.
196 Similarly, the network management daemon requires the
197 "systemd-network" system user and group to exist.
199 Similarly, the name resolution daemon requires the
200 "systemd-resolve" system user and group to exist.
202 Similarly, the kdbus dbus1 proxy daemon requires the
203 "systemd-bus-proxy" system user and group to exist.
206 systemd ships with three NSS modules:
208 nss-myhostname resolves the local hostname to locally
209 configured IP addresses, as well as "localhost" to
212 nss-resolve enables DNS resolution via the systemd-resolved
213 DNS/LLMNR caching stub resolver "systemd-resolved".
215 nss-mymachines enables resolution of all local containers
216 registered with machined to their respective IP addresses.
218 To make use of these NSS modules, please add them to the
219 "hosts: " line in /etc/nsswitch.conf. The "resolve" module
220 should replace the glibc "dns" module in this file.
222 The three modules should be used in the following order:
224 hosts: files mymachines resolve myhostname
227 systemd will warn you during boot if /etc/mtab is not a
228 symlink to /proc/mounts. Please ensure that /etc/mtab is a
231 systemd will warn you during boot if /usr is on a different
232 file system than /. While in systemd itself very little will
233 break if /usr is on a separate partition, many of its
234 dependencies very likely will break sooner or later in one
235 form or another. For example, udev rules tend to refer to
236 binaries in /usr, binaries that link to libraries in /usr or
237 binaries that refer to data files in /usr. Since these
238 breakages are not always directly visible, systemd will warn
239 about this, since this kind of file system setup is not really
240 supported anymore by the basic set of Linux OS components.
242 systemd requires that the /run mount point exists. systemd also
243 requires that /var/run is a a symlink to /run.
245 For more information on this issue consult
246 http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
248 To run systemd under valgrind, compile with VALGRIND defined
249 (e.g. ./configure CPPFLAGS='... -DVALGRIND=1'). Otherwise,
250 false positives will be triggered by code which violates
251 some rules but is actually safe.