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diff --git a/man/systemd.xml b/man/systemd.xml
index 8f58b665c..d19094c38 100644
--- a/man/systemd.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.xml
@@ -62,17 +62,24 @@
systemd is a system and session manager for
Linux operating systems. When run as first process on
- boot (as PID 1) it may act as init system that brings
- up and maintains userspace.
+ boot (as PID 1), it acts as init system that brings
+ up and maintains userspace services.
- For compatibility with SysV if systemd is called
+ For compatibility with SysV, if systemd is called
as init and a PID that is not
- 1 it will execute telinit and pass
+ 1, it will execute telinit and pass
all command line arguments unmodified. That means
init and telinit
are mostly equivalent when invoked from normal login sessions. See
telinit8
for more information.
+
+ When run as system instance, systemd interprets
+ the configuration file
+ system.conf, otherwise
+ session.conf. See
+ systemd.conf5
+ for more information.
@@ -88,28 +95,6 @@
Prints a short help
text and exits.
-
-
-
- Set default unit to
- activate on startup. If not specified
- defaults to
- default.target.
-
-
-
-
- Tell systemd to run in
- a particular mode. Argument is one of
- ,
- . Normally it
- should not be necessary to pass this
- option, as systemd automatically
- detects the mode it is started
- in. This call is hence of little use
- except for
- debugging.
-
@@ -127,25 +112,75 @@
configuration items understood in unit
definition files.
-
-
-
- Ask for confirmation when spawning processes.
- Extract D-Bus
interface introspection data. This is
- mostly useful at build at install time
+ mostly useful at install time
to generate data suitable for the
D-Bus interfaces
repository. Optionally the interface
name for the introspection data may be
- specified. If omitted the
+ specified. If omitted, the
introspection data for all interfaces
is dumped.
+
+
+
+ Set default unit to
+ activate on startup. If not specified
+ defaults to
+ default.target.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Tell systemd to run a
+ system instance (resp. session
+ instance), even if the process ID is
+ not 1 (resp. is 1), i.e. system is not
+ (resp. is) run as init process.
+ Normally it should not be necessary to
+ pass these options, as systemd
+ automatically detects the mode it is
+ started in. These options are hence of
+ little use except for
+ debugging.
+
+
+
+
+ Dump core on crash. This switch has no effect when run as session instance.
+
+
+
+
+ Run shell on crash. This switch has no effect when run as session instance.
+
+
+
+
+ Ask for confirmation when spawning processes. This switch has no effect when run as session instance.
+
+
+
+
+ Show terse service status information while booting. This switch has no effect when run as session instance.
+
+
+
+
+ Set log
+ target. Argument must be one of
+ ,
+ ,
+ ,
+ ,
+ .
+
@@ -162,17 +197,6 @@
,
.
-
-
-
- Set log
- target. Argument must be one of
- ,
- ,
- ,
- ,
- .
-
@@ -196,6 +220,170 @@
+
+ Concepts
+
+ systemd provides a dependency system between
+ various entities called "units". Units encapsulate
+ various objects that are relevant for system boot-up
+ and maintainance. The majority of units are configured
+ in unit configuration files, whose syntax and basic
+ set of options is described in
+ systemd.unit5,
+ however some are created automatically from other
+ configuration or dynamically from system state. Units
+ may be active (meaning started, bound, plugged in, ...
+ depending on the unit type), or inactive (meaning
+ stopped, unbound, unplugged, ...), as well as in the
+ process of being activated or deactivated,
+ i.e. between the two states. The following unit types
+ are available:
+
+
+ Service units, which control
+ daemons and the processes they consist of. For
+ details see
+ systemd.service5.
+
+ Socket units, which
+ encapsulate local IPC or network sockets in
+ the system, useful for socket-based
+ activation. For details about socket units see
+ systemd.socket5,
+ for details on socket-based activation and
+ other forms of activation, see
+ daemon7.
+
+ Target units are useful to
+ group units, or provide well-known
+ synchronization points during boot-up, see
+ systemd.target5.
+
+ Device units expose kernel
+ devices in systemd and may be used to
+ implement device-based activation. For details
+ see
+ systemd.device5.
+
+ Mount units control mount
+ points in the file system, for details see
+ systemd.mount5.
+
+ Automount units provide
+ automount capabilities, for on-demand mounting
+ of file systems as well as parallelized
+ boot-up. See
+ systemd.automount5.
+
+ Snapshot units can be used to
+ temporarily save the state of the set of
+ systemd units, which later may be restored by
+ activating the saved snapshot unit. For more
+ information see
+ systemd.automount5.
+
+ Timer units are useful for
+ triggering activation of other units based on
+ timers. You may find details in
+ systemd.timer5.
+
+ Swap units are very similar to
+ mount units and encapsulated memory swap
+ partitions or files of the operating
+ systemd. They are described in systemd.swap5.
+
+ Path units may be used
+ to activate other services when file system
+ objects change or are modified. See
+ systemd.path5.
+
+
+
+ Units are named as their configuration
+ files. Some units have special semantics. A detailed
+ list you may find in
+ systemd.special7.
+
+ On boot systemd activates the target unit
+ default.target whose job is to
+ activate on-boot services and other on-boot units by
+ pulling them in via dependencies. Usually the unit
+ name is just an alias (symlink) for either
+ graphical.target (for
+ fully-featured boots into the UI) or
+ multi-user.target (for limited
+ console-only boots for use in embedded or server
+ environments, or similar; a subset of
+ graphical.target). However it is at the discretion of
+ the administrator to configure it as an alias to any
+ other target unit. See
+ systemd.special7
+ for details about these target units.
+
+ Processes systemd spawns are placed in
+ individual Linux control groups named after the unit
+ which they belong to in the private systemd
+ hierarchy. (see cgroups.txt
+ for more information about control groups, or short
+ "cgroups"). systemd uses this to effectively keep
+ track of processes. Control group information is
+ maintained in the kernel, and is accessible via the
+ file system hierarchy (beneath
+ /cgroup/systemd/), or in tools
+ such as
+ ps1
+ (ps xawf -eo pid,user,cgroup,args
+ is particularly useful to list all processes and the
+ systemd units they belong to.).
+
+ systemd is compatible with the SysV init system
+ to a large degree: SysV init scripts are supported and
+ simply read as an alternative (though limited)
+ configuration file format. The SysV
+ /dev/initctl interface is
+ provided, and compatibility implementations of the
+ various SysV client tools are available. In addition to
+ that, various established Unix functionality such as
+ /etc/fstab or the
+ utmp database are
+ supported.
+
+ systemd has a minimal transaction system: if a
+ unit is requested to start up or shut down it will add
+ it and all its dependencies to a temporary
+ transaction. Then, it will verify if the transaction
+ is consistent (i.e. whether the ordering of all units
+ is cycle-free). If it is not, systemd will try to fix
+ it up, and removes non-essential jobs from the
+ transaction that might remove the loop. Also, systemd
+ tries to suppress non-essential jobs in the
+ transaction that would stop a running service. Finally
+ it is checked whether the jobs of the transaction
+ contradict jobs that have already been queued, and
+ optionally the transaction is aborted then. If all
+ worked out and the transaction is consistent and
+ minimized in its impact it is merged with all already
+ outstanding jobs and added to the run
+ queue. Effectively this means that before executing a
+ requested operation, systemd will verify that it makes
+ sense, fixing it if possible, and only failing if it
+ really cannot work.
+
+ Systemd contains native implementations of
+ various tasks that need to be executed as part of the
+ boot process. For example, it sets the host name or
+ configures the loopback network device. It also sets
+ up and mounts various API file systems, such as
+ /sys or
+ /proc.
+
+ For more information about the concepts and
+ ideas behind systemd please refer to the Original
+ Design Document.
+
+
Directories
@@ -220,8 +408,8 @@
--variable=systemdsystemconfdir
returns the path of the system
configuration directory. Packages
- should alter this directory only with
- the
+ should alter the content of these directories
+ only with the
systemd-install1
tool.
@@ -261,7 +449,7 @@
SysV init script directory varies
between distributions. If systemd
cannot find a native unit file for a
- requested service it will look for a
+ requested service, it will look for a
SysV init script of the same name
(with the
.service suffix
@@ -280,7 +468,7 @@
when figuring out whether a service
shall be enabled. Note that a service
unit with a native unit configuration
- file can be started by activating it
+ file cannot be started by activating it
in the SysV runlevel link
farm.
@@ -550,6 +738,87 @@
+
+ Kernel Command Line
+
+ When run as system instance systemd parses a few kernel command line arguments:
+
+
+
+ systemd.unit=
+
+ Overrides the unit to
+ activate on boot. Defaults to
+ default.target. This
+ may be used to temporarily boot into a
+ different boot unit, for example
+ rescue.target or
+ emergency.service. See
+ systemd.special7
+ for details about these
+ units.
+
+
+
+ systemd.log_target=
+ systemd.log_level=
+ systemd.log_color=
+ systemd.log_location=
+
+ Controls log output,
+ with the same effect as the
+ $SYSTEMD_LOG_TARGET, $SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL, $SYSTEMD_LOG_COLOR, $SYSTEMD_LOG_LOCATION
+ environment variables described above.
+
+
+
+ systemd.dump_core=
+
+ Takes a boolean
+ argument. If
+ systemd dumps core when it
+ crashes. Otherwise no core dump is
+ created. Defaults to
+ .
+
+
+
+ systemd.crash_shell=
+
+ Takes a boolean
+ argument. If
+ systemd spawns a shell when it
+ crashes. Otherwise no core dump is
+ created. Defaults to
+ , for security
+ reasons, as the shell is not protected
+ by any password
+ authentication.
+
+
+
+ systemd.crash_chvt=
+
+ Takes an integer
+ argument. If positive systemd
+ activates the specified virtual
+ terminal when it crashes. Defaults to
+ -1.
+
+
+
+ systemd.show_status=
+
+ Takes a boolean
+ argument. If
+ shows terse service status updates on
+ the console during bootup. Defaults to
+ .
+
+
+
+
+
Sockets and FIFOs