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   Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
 
   systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
   Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
 
   systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.
 
   systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
   (at your option) any later version.
 
   systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
-  General Public License for more details.
+  Lesser General Public License for more details.
 
 
-  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
   along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 -->
 
   along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 -->
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
         <refnamediv>
                 <refname>systemd.exec</refname>
 
         <refnamediv>
                 <refname>systemd.exec</refname>
-                <refpurpose>systemd execution environment configuration</refpurpose>
+                <refpurpose>Execution environment configuration</refpurpose>
         </refnamediv>
 
         <refsynopsisdiv>
         </refnamediv>
 
         <refsynopsisdiv>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Takes an absolute
                                 directory path. Sets the working
 
                                 <listitem><para>Takes an absolute
                                 directory path. Sets the working
-                                directory for executed
-                                processes.</para></listitem>
+                                directory for executed processes. If
+                                not set defaults to the root directory
+                                when systemd is running as a system
+                                instance and the respective user's
+                                home directory if run as
+                                user.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 assignments. Empty lines and lines
                                 starting with ; or # will be ignored,
                                 which may be used for commenting. The
                                 assignments. Empty lines and lines
                                 starting with ; or # will be ignored,
                                 which may be used for commenting. The
+                                parser strips leading and
+                                trailing whitespace from the values
+                                of assignments, unless you use
+                                double quotes (").
+                                The
                                 argument passed should be an absolute
                                 file name, optionally prefixed with
                                 "-", which indicates that if the file
                                 argument passed should be an absolute
                                 file name, optionally prefixed with
                                 "-", which indicates that if the file
                                 <option>tty</option>,
                                 <option>syslog</option>,
                                 <option>kmsg</option>,
                                 <option>tty</option>,
                                 <option>syslog</option>,
                                 <option>kmsg</option>,
+                                <option>journal</option>,
+                                <option>syslog+console</option>,
                                 <option>kmsg+console</option>,
                                 <option>kmsg+console</option>,
-                                <option>syslog+console</option> or
+                                <option>journal+console</option> or
                                 <option>socket</option>. If set to
                                 <option>inherit</option> the file
                                 descriptor of standard input is
                                 <option>socket</option>. If set to
                                 <option>inherit</option> the file
                                 descriptor of standard input is
                                 service. <option>kmsg</option>
                                 connects it with the kernel log buffer
                                 which is accessible via
                                 service. <option>kmsg</option>
                                 connects it with the kernel log buffer
                                 which is accessible via
-                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dmesg</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>. <option>syslog+console</option>
-                                and <option>kmsg+console</option> work
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dmesg</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>. <option>journal</option>
+                                connects it with the journal which is
+                                accessible via
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                                (Note that everything that is written
+                                to syslog or kmsg is implicitly stored
+                                in the journal as well, those options
+                                are hence supersets of this
+                                one). <option>syslog+console</option>,
+                                <option>journal+console</option> and
+                                <option>kmsg+console</option> work
                                 similarly but copy the output to the
                                 system console as
                                 well. <option>socket</option> connects
                                 similarly but copy the output to the
                                 system console as
                                 well. <option>socket</option> connects
                                 socket activation, semantics are
                                 similar to the respective option of
                                 <varname>StandardInput=</varname>.
                                 socket activation, semantics are
                                 similar to the respective option of
                                 <varname>StandardInput=</varname>.
-                                This setting defaults to
-                                <option>inherit</option>.</para></listitem>
+                                This setting defaults to the value set
+                                with
+                                <option>DefaultStandardOutput=</option>
+                                in
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                                which defaults to
+                                <option>journal</option>.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>StandardError=</varname></term>
                         </varlistentry>
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>StandardError=</varname></term>
                                 <option>inherit</option> the file
                                 descriptor used for standard output is
                                 duplicated for standard error. This
                                 <option>inherit</option> the file
                                 descriptor used for standard output is
                                 duplicated for standard error. This
-                                setting defaults to
+                                setting defaults to the value set with
+                                <option>DefaultStandardError=</option>
+                                in
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                                which defaults to
                                 <option>inherit</option>.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <option>inherit</option>.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                         <varlistentry>
                                 prefixes may be disabled with
                                 <varname>SyslogLevelPrefix=</varname>,
                                 see below. For details see
                                 prefixes may be disabled with
                                 <varname>SyslogLevelPrefix=</varname>,
                                 see below. For details see
-                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
 
                                 Defaults to
                                 <option>info</option>.</para></listitem>
 
                                 Defaults to
                                 <option>info</option>.</para></listitem>
                                 these prefixes is disabled and the
                                 logged lines are passed on as-is. For
                                 details about this prefixing see
                                 these prefixes is disabled and the
                                 logged lines are passed on as-is. For
                                 details about this prefixing see
-                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
                                 Defaults to true.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                 Defaults to true.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                 <term><varname>TimerSlackNSec=</varname></term>
                                 <listitem><para>Sets the timer slack
                                 in nanoseconds for the executed
                                 <term><varname>TimerSlackNSec=</varname></term>
                                 <listitem><para>Sets the timer slack
                                 in nanoseconds for the executed
-                                processes. The timer slack controls the
-                                accuracy of wake-ups triggered by
+                                processes. The timer slack controls
+                                the accuracy of wake-ups triggered by
                                 timers. See
                                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>prctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                                 for more information. Note that in
                                 contrast to most other time span
                                 definitions this parameter takes an
                                 timers. See
                                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>prctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                                 for more information. Note that in
                                 contrast to most other time span
                                 definitions this parameter takes an
-                                integer value in nano-seconds and does
-                                not understand any other
-                                units.</para></listitem>
+                                integer value in nano-seconds if no
+                                unit is specified. The usual time
+                                units are understood
+                                too.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 conjunction with socket-activated
                                 services, and stream sockets (TCP) in
                                 particular. It has no effect on other
                                 conjunction with socket-activated
                                 services, and stream sockets (TCP) in
                                 particular. It has no effect on other
-                                socket types (e.g. datagram/UDP) and on processes
-                                unrelated to socket-based
+                                socket types (e.g. datagram/UDP) and
+                                on processes unrelated to socket-based
                                 activation. If the tcpwrap
                                 verification fails daemon start-up
                                 will fail and the connection is
                                 terminated. See
                                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tcpd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                                 activation. If the tcpwrap
                                 verification fails daemon start-up
                                 will fail and the connection is
                                 terminated. See
                                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tcpd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                                for details.</para></listitem>
+                                for details. Note that this option may
+                                be used to do access control checks
+                                only. Shell commands and commands
+                                described in
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>hosts_options</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                                are not supported.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 is prefixed with ~ all but the listed
                                 capabilities will be included, the
                                 effect of the assignment
                                 is prefixed with ~ all but the listed
                                 capabilities will be included, the
                                 effect of the assignment
-                                inverted. Note that this option does
-                                not actually set or unset any
-                                capabilities in the effective,
-                                permitted or inherited capability
-                                sets. That's what
-                                <varname>Capabilities=</varname> is
-                                for. If this option is not used the
+                                inverted. Note that this option also
+                                effects the respective capabilities in
+                                the effective, permitted and
+                                inheritable capability sets, on top of
+                                what <varname>Capabilities=</varname>
+                                does. If this option is not used the
                                 capability bounding set is not
                                 modified on process execution, hence
                                 no limits on the capabilities of the
                                 capability bounding set is not
                                 modified on process execution, hence
                                 no limits on the capabilities of the
-                                process are enforced.</para></listitem>
+                                process are
+                                enforced.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 the group.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                 the group.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>ControlGroupPersistent=</varname></term>
+                                <listitem><para>Takes a boolean
+                                argument. If true, the control groups
+                                created for this unit will be marked
+                                to be persistent, i.e. systemd will
+                                not remove them when stopping the
+                                unit. The default is false, meaning
+                                that the control groups will be
+                                removed when the unit is stopped. For
+                                details about the semantics of this
+                                logic see <ulink
+                                url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PaxControlGroups">PaxControlGroups</ulink>.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>ControlGroupAttribute=</varname></term>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>ControlGroupAttribute=</varname></term>
 
                                 <term><varname>BlockIOWriteBandwidth=</varname></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Set the per-device
                                 <term><varname>BlockIOWriteBandwidth=</varname></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Set the per-device
-                                overall block IO bandwith limit for
+                                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
-                                bandwith value (in bytes per second)
+                                bandwidth value (in bytes per second)
                                 to specify the device specific
                                 bandwidth. The file path may be
                                 specified as path to a block device
                                 node or as any other file in which
                                 case the backing block device of the
                                 file system of the file is determined.
                                 to specify the device specific
                                 bandwidth. The file path may be
                                 specified as path to a block device
                                 node or as any other file in which
                                 case the backing block device of the
                                 file system of the file is determined.
-                                If the bandwith is suffixed with K, M,
-                                G, or T the specified bandwith is
+                                If the bandwidth is suffixed with K, M,
+                                G, or T the specified bandwidth is
                                 parsed as Kilobytes, Megabytes,
                                 Gigabytes, resp. Terabytes (Example:
                                 "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0
                                 parsed as Kilobytes, Megabytes,
                                 Gigabytes, resp. Terabytes (Example:
                                 "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0
                                 and
                                 <literal>blkio.write_bps_device</literal>
                                 control group attributes. Use this
                                 and
                                 <literal>blkio.write_bps_device</literal>
                                 control group attributes. Use this
-                                option multiple times to set bandwith
+                                option multiple times to set bandwidth
                                 limits for multiple devices. For
                                 details about these control group
                                 attributes see <ulink
                                 limits for multiple devices. For
                                 details about these control group
                                 attributes see <ulink
                                 this service.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                 this service.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>IgnoreSIGPIPE=</varname></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Takes a boolean
+                                argument. If true causes SIGPIPE to be
+                                ignored in the executed
+                                process. Defaults to true, since
+                                SIGPIPE generally is useful only in
+                                shell pipelines.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>NoNewPrivileges=</varname></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Takes a boolean
+                                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
+                                secure bits flags (see above), as it
+                                also prohibits UID changes of any
+                                kind. This is the simplest, most
+                                effective way to ensure that a process
+                                and its children can never elevate
+                                privileges again.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>SystemCallFilter=</varname></term>
+
+                                <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
+                                (whitelisting). If the first character
+                                of the list is <literal>~</literal>
+                                the effect is inverted: only the
+                                listed system calls will result in
+                                immediate process termination
+                                (blacklisting). If this option is used
+                                <varname>NoNewPrivileges=yes</varname>
+                                is implied. This feature makes use of
+                                the Secure Computing Mode 2 interfaces
+                                of the kernel ('seccomp filtering')
+                                and is useful for enforcing a minimal
+                                sandboxing environment. Note that the
+                                <function>execve</function>,
+                                <function>rt_sigreturn</function>,
+                                <function>sigreturn</function>,
+                                <function>exit_group</function>,
+                                <function>exit</function> system calls
+                                are implicitly whitelisted and don't
+                                need to be listed
+                                explicitly.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
                 </variablelist>
         </refsect1>
 
                 </variablelist>
         </refsect1>
 
                   <para>
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                   <para>
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.swap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.swap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                   </para>
         </refsect1>
 
                   </para>
         </refsect1>