1 systemd System and Service Manager
4 http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
7 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
10 git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
11 ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/systemd/systemd
14 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
17 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
18 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-commits
21 #systemd on irc.freenode.org
24 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=systemd
32 LGPLv2.1+ for all code
33 - except sd-readahead.[ch] which is MIT
34 - except src/shared/MurmurHash2.c which is Public Domain
35 - except src/shared/siphash24.c which is CC0 Public Domain
36 - except src/journal/lookup3.c which is Public Domain
37 - except src/udev/* which is (currently still) GPLv2, GPLv2+
41 Linux kernel >= 3.3 for loop device partition support features with nspawn
42 Linux kernel >= 3.8 for Smack support
44 Kernel Config Options:
46 CONFIG_CGROUPS (it is OK to disable all controllers)
54 CONFIG_FHANDLE (libudev, mount and bind mount handling)
56 Udev will fail to work with the legacy layout:
57 CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n
59 Legacy hotplug slows down the system and confuses udev:
60 CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH=""
62 Userspace firmware loading is deprecated, will go away, and
63 sometimes causes problems:
64 CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n
66 Some udev rules and virtualization detection relies on it:
69 Support for some SCSI devices serial number retrieval, to
70 create additional symlinks in /dev/disk/ and /dev/tape:
73 Required for PrivateNetwork in service units:
76 Optional but strongly recommended:
79 CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
83 Required for CPUShares in resource control unit settings
85 CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
87 For systemd-bootchart, several proc debug interfaces are required:
95 Note that kernel auditing is broken when used with systemd's
96 container code. When using systemd in conjunction with
97 containers, please make sure to either turn off auditing at
98 runtime using the kernel command line option "audit=0", or
99 turn it off at kernel compile time using:
101 If systemd is compiled with libseccomp support on
102 architectures which do not use socketcall() and where seccomp
103 is supported (this effectively means x86-64 and ARM, but
104 excludes 32-bit x86!), then nspawn will now install a
105 work-around seccomp filter that makes containers boot even
106 with audit being enabled. This works correctly only on kernels
107 3.14 and newer though. TL;DR: turn audit off, still.
111 libseccomp >= 1.0.0 (optional)
112 libblkid >= 2.20 (from util-linux) (optional)
113 libkmod >= 15 (optional)
114 PAM >= 1.1.2 (optional)
115 libcryptsetup (optional)
119 libselinux (optional)
122 libqrencode (optional)
123 libmicrohttpd (optional)
125 make, gcc, and similar tools
127 During runtime, you need the following additional
130 util-linux >= v2.19 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s),
131 v2.21 required for tests in test/
132 dbus >= 1.4.0 (strictly speaking optional, but recommended)
133 sulogin (from util-linux >= 2.22 or sysvinit-tools, optional but recommended,
134 required for tests in test/)
138 When building from git, you need the following additional
150 python-lxml (optional, but required to build the indices)
153 When systemd-hostnamed is used, it is strongly recommended to
154 install nss-myhostname to ensure that, in a world of
155 dynamically changing hostnames, the hostname stays resolvable
156 under all circumstances. In fact, systemd-hostnamed will warn
157 if nss-myhostname is not installed.
159 To build HTML documentation for python-systemd using sphinx,
160 please first install systemd (using 'make install'), and then
161 invoke sphinx-build with 'make sphinx-<target>', with <target>
162 being 'html' or 'latexpdf'. If using DESTDIR for installation,
163 pass the same DESTDIR to 'make sphinx-html' invocation.
166 Default udev rules use the following standard system group
167 names, which need to be resolvable by getgrnam() at any time,
168 even in the very early boot stages, where no other databases
169 and network are available:
171 audio, cdrom, dialout, disk, input, kmem, lp, tape, tty, video
173 During runtime, the journal daemon requires the
174 "systemd-journal" system group to exist. New journal files will
175 be readable by this group (but not writable), which may be used
176 to grant specific users read access.
178 It is also recommended to grant read access to all journal
179 files to the system groups "wheel" and "adm" with a command
180 like the following in the post installation script of the
183 # setfacl -nm g:wheel:rx,d:g:wheel:rx,g:adm:rx,d:g:adm:rx /var/log/journal/
185 The journal gateway daemon requires the
186 "systemd-journal-gateway" system user and group to
187 exist. During execution this network facing service will drop
188 privileges and assume this uid/gid for security reasons.
190 Similar, the NTP daemon requires the "systemd-timesync" system
191 user and group to exist.
193 Similar, the network management daemon requires the
194 "systemd-network" system user and group to exist.
196 Similar, the name resolution daemon requires the
197 "systemd-resolve" system user and group to exist.
199 Similar, the kdbus dbus1 proxy daemon requires the
200 "systemd-bus-proxy" system user and group to exist.
203 systemd will warn you during boot if /etc/mtab is not a
204 symlink to /proc/mounts. Please ensure that /etc/mtab is a
207 systemd will warn you during boot if /usr is on a different
208 file system than /. While in systemd itself very little will
209 break if /usr is on a separate partition, many of its
210 dependencies very likely will break sooner or later in one
211 form or another. For example, udev rules tend to refer to
212 binaries in /usr, binaries that link to libraries in /usr or
213 binaries that refer to data files in /usr. Since these
214 breakages are not always directly visible, systemd will warn
215 about this, since this kind of file system setup is not really
216 supported anymore by the basic set of Linux OS components.
218 systemd requires that the /run mount point exists. systemd also
219 requires that /var/run is a a symlink to /run.
221 For more information on this issue consult
222 http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
224 To run systemd under valgrind, compile with VALGRIND defined
225 (e.g. ./configure CPPFLAGS='... -DVALGRIND=1'). Otherwise,
226 false positives will be triggered by code which violates
227 some rules but is actually safe.