-systemd System and Session Manager
+systemd System and Service Manager
DETAILS:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
GIT:
- git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd
- ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd
+ git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
+ ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd
GITWEB:
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/
+ http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
MAILING LIST:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=systemd
AUTHOR:
- Lennart Poettering with major support from Kay Sievers
+ Lennart Poettering
+ Kay Sievers
+ ...and many others
+
+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 >= 2.6.30 (with autofs4, devtmpfs, cgroups)
- libudev >= 163
- dbus >= 1.4.0
+ Linux kernel >= 3.0
+ CONFIG_DEVTMPFS
+ CONFIG_CGROUPS (it's OK to disable all controllers)
+ CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER
+ CONFIG_SIGNALFD
+ CONFIG_TIMERFD
+ CONFIG_EPOLL
+ CONFIG_NET
+ CONFIG_SYSFS
+ CONFIG_PROC_FS
+ CONFIG_FHANDLE (libudev, mount and bind mount handling)
+
+ Linux kernel >= 3.8 for Smack support
+
+ 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
+
+ Support for some SCSI devices serial number retrieval, to
+ create additional symlinks in /dev/disk/ and /dev/tape:
+ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG
+
+ Optional but strongly recommended:
+ CONFIG_IPV6
+ CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS
+ CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
+ CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR
+ CONFIG_SECCOMP
+
+ For systemd-bootchart, several proc debug interfaces are required:
+ CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
+ CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
+
+ For UEFI systems:
+ CONFIG_EFI_VARS
+ CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION
+
+ 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
+
+ glibc >= 2.14
libcap
- gtk+ >= 2.20 (optional)
+ libseccomp >= 1.0.0 (optional)
+ libblkid >= 2.20 (from util-linux) (optional)
+ libkmod >= 15 (optional)
PAM >= 1.1.2 (optional)
libcryptsetup (optional)
libaudit (optional)
+ libacl (optional)
+ libattr (optional)
libselinux (optional)
+ liblzma (optional)
tcpwrappers (optional)
- libnotify (optional)
+ libgcrypt (optional)
+ libqrencode (optional)
+ libmicrohttpd (optional)
+ libpython (optional)
+ make, gcc, and similar tools
+
+ To sucessfully use --compat-libs, gcc >= 4.8 seems necessary.
- When you build from git you need the following additional dependencies:
+ During runtime, you need the following additional
+ dependencies:
+
+ util-linux >= v2.19 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s),
+ v2.21 required for tests in test/
+ 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)
+
+ When building from git, you need the following additional
+ dependencies:
- vala >= 0.10
docbook-xsl
xsltproc
automake
autoconf
libtool
+ intltool
+ gperf
+ gtkdocize (optional)
+ python (optional)
+ python-lxml (optional, but required to build the indices)
+ sphinx (optional)
- During runtime you need the following dependencies:
+ 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.
- util-linux > v2.18 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s)
- sulogin (from sysvinit-tools)
- plymouth (optional)
- dracut (optional)
+ 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.
+
+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:
+
+ tty, dialout, kmem, video, audio, lp, floppy, cdrom, tape, disk
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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/
+
+ 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.
+
+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
+ 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.
+
+ For more information on this issue consult
+ http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
+
+ 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.