X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=a16f342ecf2fed36957940a977cbfd4dfedc46fd;hp=b6e347ec2b33f4d3b82f3475cf8080648c39f5d5;hb=d137a488afb59801177dc34c218f339bfbbdb044;hpb=37495eede95d3212b797c8459d7ed6258fb23c6a diff --git a/README b/README index b6e347ec2..a16f342ec 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -31,17 +31,67 @@ AUTHOR: LICENSE: LGPLv2.1+ for all code - except sd-daemon.[ch] and sd-readahead.[ch] which are MIT - - except src/udev/ which is GPLv2.0+ + - except src/shared/MurmurHash3.c which is Public Domain + - except src/journal/lookup3.c which is Public Domain + - except src/udev/* which is (currently still) GPLv2, GPLv2+ REQUIREMENTS: - Linux kernel >= 2.6.39 - with devtmpfs - with cgroups (but it's OK to disable all controllers) - optional but strongly recommended: autofs4, ipv6 + 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 + + 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 + + Mount and bind mount handling might require it: + CONFIG_FHANDLE + + Optional but strongly recommended: + CONFIG_IPV6 + CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS + CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL + CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR + CONFIG_SECCOMP + + For systemd-bootchart a kernel with procfs support and several + proc output options enabled is required: + CONFIG_PROC_FS + 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 + dbus >= 1.4.0 libcap libblkid >= 2.20 (from util-linux) (optional) - libkmod >= 5 (optional) + libkmod >= 14 (optional) PAM >= 1.1.2 (optional) libcryptsetup (optional) libaudit (optional) @@ -63,13 +113,6 @@ REQUIREMENTS: dracut (optional) PolicyKit (optional) - For systmed-bootchart a kernel with procfs support and several - proc output options enabled is required: - - CONFIG_PROC_FS - CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS - CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG - When building from git you need the following additional dependencies: docbook-xsl @@ -82,6 +125,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS: gtkdocize (optional) python (optional) sphinx (optional) + python-lxml (entirely optional) When systemd-hostnamed is used it is strongly recommended to install nss-myhostname to ensure that in a world of @@ -109,7 +153,7 @@ USERS AND GROUPS: tty, dialout, kmem, video, audio, lp, floppy, cdrom, tape, disk During runtime the journal daemon requires the - "system-journal" system group to exist. New journal files will + "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. @@ -121,7 +165,7 @@ USERS AND GROUPS: # 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 - "system-journal-gateway" system user and group to + "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.