X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fdaemon.xml;h=99c75a7a18eb9b5d48452b012ef33100c9aae411;hp=0085ad34faa51e1df2e6cb3e50502b1d6a9612d9;hb=9700d6980f7c212b10a69399e6430b82a6f45587;hpb=0afedd300cbe53bd5a54aefc81cede1eae9a9ab8;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/man/daemon.xml b/man/daemon.xml index 0085ad34f..99c75a7a1 100644 --- a/man/daemon.xml +++ b/man/daemon.xml @@ -85,13 +85,14 @@ with a fallback of iterating from file descriptor 3 to the value returned by getrlimit() for - RLIMIT_NOFILE. + RLIMIT_NOFILE. + Reset all signal handlers to their default. This is best done by iterating through the available signals up to the limit of - _NSIG and resetting them to + _NSIG and resetting them to SIG_DFL. Reset the signal mask @@ -321,29 +322,21 @@ interface. Instead of using the - syslog() call to log directly to the - system syslog service, a new-style daemon may - choose to simply log to standard error via - fprintf(), which is then forwarded to - syslog by the init system. If log - priorities are necessary, these can be - encoded by prefixing individual log - lines with strings like "<4>" - (for log priority 4 "WARNING" in the - syslog priority scheme), following a - similar style as the Linux kernel's - printk() priority system. In fact, - using this style of logging also - enables the init system to optionally - direct all application logging to the - kernel log buffer (kmsg), as - accessible via - dmesg1. This - kind of logging may be enabled by - setting - StandardError=syslog - in the service unit file. For details, - see + syslog() call to + log directly to the system syslog + service, a new-style daemon may choose + to simply log to standard error via + fprintf(), which + is then forwarded to syslog by the + init system. If log priorities are + necessary, these can be encoded by + prefixing individual log lines with + strings like <4> (for log + priority 4 "WARNING" in the syslog + priority scheme), following a similar + style as the Linux kernel's + printk() priority + system. For details, see sd-daemon3 and systemd.exec5. @@ -618,7 +611,7 @@ on a network interface, because network sockets shall be bound to the address. However, an alternative to implement - this is by utilizing the Linux IP_FREEBIND + this is by utilizing the Linux IP_FREEBIND socket option, as accessible via FreeBind=yes in systemd socket files (see @@ -756,7 +749,7 @@ boot. Packages using - autoconf1 + autoconf1 are recommended to use a configure script excerpt like the following to determine the unit installation path during source @@ -791,7 +784,7 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_SYSTEMD], [test "x$with_systemdsystemunitdir" != "xno"])

Makefile.am file in - automake1-based + automake1-based projects:
DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS = \ @@ -806,7 +799,7 @@ systemdsystemunit_DATA = \ endif In the - rpm8 + rpm8 .spec file, use snippets like the following to enable/disable the service during @@ -940,6 +933,14 @@ fi + + Placing Daemon Data + + It is recommended to follow the general + guidelines for placing package files, as discussed in + file-hierarchy7. + + See Also @@ -948,7 +949,8 @@ fi sd_listen_fds3, sd_notify3, daemon3, - systemd.service5 + systemd.service5, + file-hierarchy7