<listitem><para>Sets the supplementary
Unix groups the processes are executed
- as. This takes a space separated list
+ as. This takes a space-separated list
of group names or IDs. This option may
be specified more than once in which
case all listed groups are set as
variables is reset, all prior
assignments have no effect.
Variable expansion is not performed
- inside the strings, and $ has no special
- meaning.
+ inside the strings, however, specifier
+ expansion is possible. $ character has
+ no special meaning.
If you need to assign a value containing spaces
to a variable, use double quotes (")
for the assignment.</para>
<varname>Environment=</varname> but
reads the environment variables from a
text file. The text file should
- contain new-line separated variable
+ contain new-line-separated variable
assignments. Empty lines and lines
starting with ; or # will be ignored,
which may be used for commenting. A line
double quotes (").</para>
<para>The argument passed should be an
- absolute file name or wildcard
+ absolute filename or wildcard
expression, optionally prefixed with
- "-", which indicates that if the file
- does not exist it won't be read and no
- error or warning message is logged.
- This option may be specified more than
- once in which case all specified files
- are read. If the empty string is
- assigned to this option the list of
- file to read is reset, all prior
- assignments have no effect.</para>
+ <literal>-</literal>, which indicates
+ that if the file does not exist it
+ won't be read and no error or warning
+ message is logged. This option may be
+ specified more than once in which case
+ all specified files are read. If the
+ empty string is assigned to this
+ option the list of file to read is
+ reset, all prior assignments have no
+ effect.</para>
<para>The files listed with this
directive will be read shortly before
capability bounding set for the
executed process. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>capabilities</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- for details. Takes a whitespace
- separated list of capability names as
- read by
+ for details. Takes a whitespace-separated
+ list of capability names as read by
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>cap_from_name</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- e.g. <literal>CAP_SYS_ADMIN
- CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE
- CAP_SYS_PTRACE</literal>.
+ e.g. <constant>CAP_SYS_ADMIN</constant>,
+ <constant>CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE</constant>,
+ <constant>CAP_SYS_PTRACE</constant>.
Capabilities listed will be included
in the bounding set, all others are
removed. If the list of capabilities
<listitem><para>Control access to
specific device nodes by the executed processes. Takes two
- space separated strings: a device node
+ space-separated strings: a device node
path (such as
<filename>/dev/null</filename>)
followed by a combination of r, w, m
processes. Takes either a single
weight value (between 10 and 1000) to
set the default block IO weight, or a
- space separated pair of a file path
+ space-separated pair of a file path
and a weight value to specify the
device specific weight value (Example:
"/dev/sda 500"). The file path may be
<listitem><para>Set the per-device
overall block IO bandwidth limit for
- the executed processes. Takes a space
- separated pair of a file path and a
+ the executed processes. Takes a
+ space-separated pair of a file path and a
bandwidth value (in bytes per second)
to specify the device specific
bandwidth. The file path may be
<term><varname>InaccessibleDirectories=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Sets up a new
- file-system name space for executed
+ file system namespace for executed
processes. These options may be used
to limit access a process might have
- to the main file-system
+ to the main file system
hierarchy. Each setting takes a
space-separated list of absolute
directory paths. Directories listed in
<term><varname>IgnoreSIGPIPE=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a boolean
- argument. If true causes SIGPIPE to be
+ argument. If true, causes <constant>SIGPIPE</constant> to be
ignored in the executed
- process. Defaults to true, since
- SIGPIPE generally is useful only in
+ process. Defaults to true because
+ <constant>SIGPIPE</constant> generally is useful only in
shell pipelines.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term><varname>NoNewPrivileges=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a boolean
- argument. If true ensures that the
+ argument. If true, ensures that the
service process and all its children
can never gain new privileges. This
option is more powerful than the respective
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>SystemCallFilter=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Takes a space
- separated list of system call
- names. If this setting is used all
+ <listitem><para>Takes a space-separated
+ list of system call
+ names. If this setting is used, all
system calls executed by the unit
process except for the listed ones
will result in immediate process
- termination with the SIGSYS signal
+ termination with the
+ <constant>SIGSYS</constant> signal
(whitelisting). If the first character
of the list is <literal>~</literal>
the effect is inverted: only the
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