LICENSE:
LGPLv2.1+ for all code
- - except sd-readahead.[ch] which is MIT
- except src/shared/MurmurHash2.c which is Public Domain
- except src/shared/siphash24.c which is CC0 Public Domain
- except src/journal/lookup3.c which is Public Domain
- except src/udev/* which is (currently still) GPLv2, GPLv2+
REQUIREMENTS:
- Linux kernel >= 3.0
- Linux kernel >= 3.3 for loop device partition support features with nspawn
+ Linux kernel >= 3.7
Linux kernel >= 3.8 for Smack support
Kernel Config Options:
CONFIG_PROC_FS
CONFIG_FHANDLE (libudev, mount and bind mount handling)
- Udev will fail to work with the legacy layout:
+ udev will fail to work with the legacy sysfs 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:
+ Userspace firmware loading is not supported and should
+ be disabled in the kernel:
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n
Some udev rules and virtualization detection relies on it:
CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR
CONFIG_SECCOMP
+ Required for CPUShares in resource control unit settings
+ CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED
+ CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
+
+ Required for CPUQuota in resource control unit settings
+ CONFIG_CFS_BANDWIDTH
+
For systemd-bootchart, several proc debug interfaces are required:
CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
glibc >= 2.14
libcap
+ libmount >= 2.20 (from util-linux)
libseccomp >= 1.0.0 (optional)
libblkid >= 2.20 (from util-linux) (optional)
libkmod >= 15 (optional)
libcryptsetup (optional)
libaudit (optional)
libacl (optional)
- libattr (optional)
libselinux (optional)
liblzma (optional)
+ liblz4 >= 119 (optional)
libgcrypt (optional)
libqrencode (optional)
libmicrohttpd (optional)
libpython (optional)
+ libidn (optional)
+ gobject-introspection > 1.40.0 (optional)
+ elfutils >= 158 (optional)
make, gcc, and similar tools
During runtime, you need the following additional
dependencies:
- util-linux >= v2.19 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s),
- v2.21 required for tests in test/
+ util-linux >= v2.25 required
dbus >= 1.4.0 (strictly speaking optional, but recommended)
- sulogin (from util-linux >= 2.22 or sysvinit-tools, optional but recommended,
- required for tests in test/)
dracut (optional)
PolicyKit (optional)
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
+ audio, cdrom, dialout, disk, input, kmem, lp, tape, tty, video
During runtime, the journal daemon requires the
"systemd-journal" system group to exist. New journal files will
exist. During execution this network facing service will drop
privileges and assume this uid/gid for security reasons.
+ Similarly, the NTP daemon requires the "systemd-timesync" system
+ user and group to exist.
+
+ Similarly, the network management daemon requires the
+ "systemd-network" system user and group to exist.
+
+ Similarly, the name resolution daemon requires the
+ "systemd-resolve" system user and group to exist.
+
+ Similarly, the kdbus dbus1 proxy daemon requires the
+ "systemd-bus-proxy" system user and group to exist.
+
+NSS:
+ systemd ships with three NSS modules:
+
+ nss-myhostname resolves the local hostname to locally
+ configured IP addresses, as well as "localhost" to
+ 127.0.0.1/::1.
+
+ nss-resolve enables DNS resolution via the systemd-resolved
+ DNS/LLMNR caching stub resolver "systemd-resolved".
+
+ nss-mymachines enables resolution of all local containers
+ registered with machined to their respective IP addresses.
+
+ To make use of these NSS modules, please add them to the
+ "hosts: " line in /etc/nsswitch.conf. The "resolve" module
+ should replace the glibc "dns" module in this file.
+
+ The three modules should be used in the following order:
+
+ hosts: files mymachines resolve myhostname
+
WARNINGS:
systemd will warn you during boot if /etc/mtab is not a
symlink to /proc/mounts. Please ensure that /etc/mtab is a
supported anymore by the basic set of Linux OS components.
systemd requires that the /run mount point exists. systemd also
- requires that /var/run is a a symlink → /run.
+ requires that /var/run is a a symlink to /run.
For more information on this issue consult
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
(e.g. ./configure CPPFLAGS='... -DVALGRIND=1'). Otherwise,
false positives will be triggered by code which violates
some rules but is actually safe.
+
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+ engineering and consulting services for systemd. Please
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