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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-systemd" role="wrap" revision="systemd">
9 <?dbhtml filename="systemd.html"?>
10
11 <sect1info condition="script">
12 <productname>systemd</productname>
13 <productnumber>&systemd-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&systemd-url;</address>
15 </sect1info>
16
17 <title>Systemd-&systemd-version;</title>
18
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd">
20 <primary sortas="a-systemd">systemd</primary>
21 </indexterm>
22
23 <sect2 role="package">
24 <title/>
25
26 <para>The systemd package contains programs for controlling the startup,
27 running, and shutdown of the system.</para>
28
29 <segmentedlist>
30 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
31 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
32
33 <seglistitem>
34 <seg>&systemd-fin-sbu;</seg>
35 <seg>&systemd-fin-du;</seg>
36 </seglistitem>
37 </segmentedlist>
38 </sect2>
39
40 <sect2 role="installation">
41 <title>Installation of systemd</title>
42
43 <para>Remove two unneeded groups,
44 <systemitem class="groupname">render</systemitem> and
45 <systemitem class="groupname">sgx</systemitem>, from the default udev
46 rules:</para>
47
48 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e 's/GROUP="render"/GROUP="video"/' \
49 -e 's/GROUP="sgx", //' rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.in</userinput></screen>
50
51 <!-- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/30549 -->
52 <para>Now fix a security vulnerability in the DNSSEC verification of
53 <command>systemd-resolved</command> and a bug breaking running
54 <command>systemd-analyze verify</command> on an instantiated systemd
55 unit:</para>
56
57<screen><userinput remap='pre'>patch -Np1 -i ../&systemd-upstream-patch;</userinput></screen>
58
59 <para>Prepare systemd for compilation:</para>
60
61<screen><userinput remap="configure">mkdir -p build
62cd build
63
64CFLAGS+=" -Wno-format-overflow" \
65meson setup \
66 --prefix=/usr \
67 --buildtype=release \
68 -Ddefault-dnssec=no \
69 -Dfirstboot=false \
70 -Dinstall-tests=false \
71 -Dldconfig=false \
72 -Dsysusers=false \
73 -Drpmmacrosdir=no \
74 -Dhomed=disabled \
75 -Duserdb=false \
76 -Dman=disabled \
77 -Dmode=release \
78 -Dpamconfdir=no \
79 -Ddev-kvm-mode=0660 \
80 -Dnobody-group=nogroup \
81 -Dsysupdate=disabled \
82 -Dukify=disabled \
83 -Ddocdir=/usr/share/doc/systemd-&systemd-version; \
84 ..</userinput></screen>
85
86 <variablelist>
87 <title>The meaning of the meson options:</title>
88
89 <varlistentry>
90 <term><parameter>--buildtype=release</parameter></term>
91 <listitem>
92 <para>This switch overrides the default buildtype
93 (<quote>debug</quote>), which produces unoptimized
94 binaries.</para>
95 </listitem>
96 </varlistentry>
97
98 <varlistentry>
99 <term><parameter>-Ddefault-dnssec=no</parameter></term>
100 <listitem>
101 <para>This switch turns off the experimental DNSSEC support.</para>
102 </listitem>
103 </varlistentry>
104
105 <varlistentry>
106 <term><parameter>-Dfirstboot=false</parameter></term>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>This switch prevents installation of systemd
109 services responsible for setting up the system for
110 the first time. These are not useful in LFS, because
111 everything is done manually.</para>
112 </listitem>
113 </varlistentry>
114
115 <varlistentry>
116 <term><parameter>-Dinstall-tests=false</parameter></term>
117 <listitem>
118 <para>This switch prevents installation of the compiled tests.</para>
119 </listitem>
120 </varlistentry>
121
122 <varlistentry>
123 <term><parameter>-Dldconfig=false</parameter></term>
124 <listitem>
125 <para>This switch prevents installation of a systemd unit that runs
126 <command>ldconfig</command> at boot; this is not useful for source
127 distributions such as LFS, and makes the boot time longer. Remove
128 this option to enable running <command>ldconfig</command> at boot.</para>
129 </listitem>
130 </varlistentry>
131
132 <varlistentry>
133 <term><parameter>-Dsysusers=false</parameter></term>
134 <listitem>
135 <para>This switch prevents installation of systemd
136 services responsible for setting up the
137 <filename>/etc/group</filename> and
138 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> files. Both files
139 were created in the previous chapter. This daemon is not useful
140 on an LFS system since user accounts are manually created.</para>
141 </listitem>
142 </varlistentry>
143
144 <varlistentry>
145 <term><parameter>-Drpmmacrosdir=no</parameter></term>
146 <listitem>
147 <para>This switch disables installation of RPM Macros
148 for use with systemd, because LFS does not support RPM.</para>
149 </listitem>
150 </varlistentry>
151
152 <varlistentry>
153 <term><parameter>-Dhomed=disabled</parameter> and
154 <parameter>-Duserdb=false</parameter></term>
155 <listitem>
156 <para>Remove two daemons with dependencies that do not fit
157 within the scope of LFS.</para>
158 </listitem>
159 </varlistentry>
160
161 <varlistentry>
162 <term><parameter>-Dman=disabled</parameter></term>
163 <listitem>
164 <para>Prevent the generation of man pages to avoid extra
165 dependencies. We will install pre-generated man pages for systemd
166 from a tarball.</para>
167 </listitem>
168 </varlistentry>
169
170 <varlistentry>
171 <term><parameter>-Dmode=release</parameter></term>
172 <listitem>
173 <para>Disable some features considered experimental by upstream.
174 </para>
175 </listitem>
176 </varlistentry>
177
178 <varlistentry>
179 <term><parameter>-Dpamconfdir=no</parameter></term>
180 <listitem>
181 <para>Prevent the installation of a PAM configuration file not
182 functional on LFS.</para>
183 </listitem>
184 </varlistentry>
185
186 <varlistentry>
187 <term><parameter>-Ddev-kvm-mode=0660</parameter></term>
188 <listitem>
189 <para>The default udev rule would allow all users to access
190 <filename class='devicefile'>/dev/kvm</filename>. The editors
191 consider it dangerous. This option overrides it.</para>
192 </listitem>
193 </varlistentry>
194
195 <varlistentry>
196 <term><parameter>-Dnobody-group=nogroup</parameter></term>
197 <listitem>
198 <para>Tell the package the group name with GID 65534 is
199 <systemitem class='groupname'>nogroup</systemitem>.</para>
200 </listitem>
201 </varlistentry>
202
203 <varlistentry>
204 <term><parameter>-Dsysupdate=disabled</parameter></term>
205 <listitem>
206 <para>Do not install the <command>systemd-sysupdate</command>
207 tool. It's designed for automatically upgrading binary distros,
208 so it's useless for a basic Linux system built from source.
209 And it will report errors on boot if it's enabled but not properly
210 configured.</para>
211 </listitem>
212 </varlistentry>
213
214 <varlistentry>
215 <term><parameter>-Dukify=disabled</parameter></term>
216 <listitem>
217 <para>Do not install the <command>systemd-ukify</command> script.
218 At runtime this script requires the
219 <application>pefile</application> Python module that neither LFS
220 nor BLFS provides.</para>
221 </listitem>
222 </varlistentry>
223
224 </variablelist>
225
226 <para>Compile the package:</para>
227
228<screen><userinput remap="make">ninja</userinput></screen>
229
230 <para>Install the package:</para>
231
232<screen><userinput remap="install">ninja install</userinput></screen>
233
234 <para>Install the man pages:</para>
235
236 <!-- Please make sure systemd man pages tarball has a common leading
237 component in the path. -->
238<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xf ../../systemd-man-pages-&systemd-version;.tar.xz \
239 --no-same-owner --strip-components=1 \
240 -C /usr/share/man</userinput></screen>
241
242 <para>Create the <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> file needed by
243 <command>systemd-journald</command>:</para>
244
245<screen><userinput remap="adjust">systemd-machine-id-setup</userinput></screen>
246
247 <para>Set up the basic target structure:</para>
248
249<screen><userinput remap="adjust">systemctl preset-all</userinput></screen>
250
251<!-- dev: 50-pid-max.conf is not removed in BLFS, so I commented the following out.
252 If it causes any trouble, we can add this back and also copy it into BLFS -->
253<!--
254 <para>Prevent systemd from resetting the maximum PID value which causes
255 some problems with packages and units in BLFS:</para>
256
257<screen><userinput remap="adjust">rm -f /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-pid-max.conf</userinput></screen>
258-->
259
260 </sect2>
261
262 <sect2 id="contents-systemd" role="content">
263 <title>Contents of systemd</title>
264
265 <segmentedlist>
266 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
267 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
268 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
269
270 <seglistitem>
271 <seg>busctl, coredumpctl, halt (symlink to systemctl),
272 hostnamectl, init, journalctl, kernel-install, localectl, loginctl,
273 machinectl, mount.ddi (symlink to systemd-dissect), networkctl,
274 oomctl, portablectl, poweroff (symlink to
275 systemctl), reboot (symlink to systemctl), resolvconf (symlink to
276 resolvectl), resolvectl, runlevel (symlink to systemctl), shutdown
277 (symlink to systemctl), systemctl, systemd-ac-power, systemd-analyze,
278 systemd-ask-password, systemd-cat, systemd-cgls, systemd-cgtop,
279 systemd-confext (symlink to systemd-sysext), systemd-creds,
280 systemd-delta, systemd-detect-virt,
281 systemd-dissect, systemd-escape, systemd-hwdb, systemd-id128,
282 systemd-inhibit, systemd-machine-id-setup,
283 systemd-mount, systemd-notify, systemd-nspawn, systemd-path,
284 systemd-repart, systemd-resolve (symlink to resolvectl), systemd-run,
285 systemd-socket-activate, systemd-stdio-bridge, systemd-sysext,
286 systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-tty-ask-password-agent,
287 systemd-umount (symlink to systemd-mount),
288 telinit (symlink to systemctl), timedatectl, and udevadm</seg>
289 <seg>libnss_myhostname.so.2, libnss_mymachines.so.2,
290 libnss_resolve.so.2, libnss_systemd.so.2,
291 libsystemd.so, libsystemd-shared-&systemd-version;.so (in /usr/lib/systemd),
292 and libudev.so</seg>
293 <seg>/etc/binfmt.d, /etc/init.d, /etc/kernel, /etc/modules-load.d,
294 /etc/sysctl.d, /etc/systemd, /etc/tmpfiles.d, /etc/udev,
295 /etc/xdg/systemd, /usr/lib/systemd, /usr/lib/udev, /usr/include/systemd,
296 /usr/lib/binfmt.d, /usr/lib/environment.d, /usr/lib/kernel,
297 /usr/lib/modules-load.d, /usr/lib/sysctl.d, /usr/lib/systemd,
298 /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d,
299 /usr/share/doc/systemd-&systemd-version;, /usr/share/factory,
300 /usr/share/systemd, /var/lib/systemd, and /var/log/journal</seg>
301 </seglistitem>
302 </segmentedlist>
303
304 <variablelist>
305 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
306 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
307 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
308
309 <varlistentry id="busctl">
310 <term><command>busctl</command></term>
311 <listitem>
312 <para>Is used to introspect and monitor the D-Bus bus</para>
313 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd busctl">
314 <primary sortas="b-busctl">busctl</primary>
315 </indexterm>
316 </listitem>
317 </varlistentry>
318
319 <varlistentry id="coredumpctl">
320 <term><command>coredumpctl</command></term>
321 <listitem>
322 <para>Is used to retrieve coredumps from the systemd journal</para>
323 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd coredumpctl">
324 <primary sortas="b-coredumpctl">coredumpctl</primary>
325 </indexterm>
326 </listitem>
327 </varlistentry>
328
329 <varlistentry id="halt">
330 <term><command>halt</command></term>
331 <listitem>
332 <para>Normally invokes <command>shutdown</command> with the
333 <parameter>-h</parameter> option, except when already in run-level 0,
334 when it tells the kernel to halt the system; it notes in the
335 file <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename> that the system is being
336 brought down</para>
337 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd halt">
338 <primary sortas="b-halt">halt</primary>
339 </indexterm>
340 </listitem>
341 </varlistentry>
342
343 <varlistentry id="hostnamectl">
344 <term><command>hostnamectl</command></term>
345 <listitem>
346 <para>Is used to query and change the system hostname and related
347 settings</para>
348 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd hostnamectl">
349 <primary sortas="b-hostnamectl">hostnamectl</primary>
350 </indexterm>
351 </listitem>
352 </varlistentry>
353
354 <varlistentry id="init">
355 <term><command>init</command></term>
356 <listitem>
357 <para>Is the first process to be started after the kernel has initialized
358 the hardware; <command>init</command> takes over the boot process and starts the
359 processes specified by its configuration files; in this case, it starts
360 systemd</para>
361 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd init">
362 <primary sortas="b-init">init</primary>
363 </indexterm>
364 </listitem>
365 </varlistentry>
366
367 <varlistentry id="journalctl">
368 <term><command>journalctl</command></term>
369 <listitem>
370 <para>Is used to query the contents of the systemd journal</para>
371 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd journalctl">
372 <primary sortas="b-journalctl">journalctl</primary>
373 </indexterm>
374 </listitem>
375 </varlistentry>
376
377 <varlistentry id="kernel-install">
378 <term><command>kernel-install</command></term>
379 <listitem>
380 <para>Is used to add and remove kernel and initramfs images to and
381 from /boot; in LFS, this is done manually</para>
382 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd kernel-install">
383 <primary sortas="b-kernel-install">kernel-install</primary>
384 </indexterm>
385 </listitem>
386 </varlistentry>
387
388 <varlistentry id="localectl">
389 <term><command>localectl</command></term>
390 <listitem>
391 <para>Is used to query and change the system locale and keyboard layout
392 settings</para>
393 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd localectl">
394 <primary sortas="b-localectl">localectl</primary>
395 </indexterm>
396 </listitem>
397 </varlistentry>
398
399 <varlistentry id="loginctl">
400 <term><command>loginctl</command></term>
401 <listitem>
402 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd Login
403 Manager</para>
404 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd loginctl">
405 <primary sortas="b-loginctl">loginctl</primary>
406 </indexterm>
407 </listitem>
408 </varlistentry>
409
410 <varlistentry id="machinectl">
411 <term><command>machinectl</command></term>
412 <listitem>
413 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd Virtual
414 Machine and Container Registration Manager</para>
415 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd machinectl">
416 <primary sortas="b-machinectl">machinectl</primary>
417 </indexterm>
418 </listitem>
419 </varlistentry>
420
421 <varlistentry id="networkctl">
422 <term><command>networkctl</command></term>
423 <listitem>
424 <para>Is used to introspect and configure the state of the network
425 links configured by systemd-networkd</para>
426 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd networkctl">
427 <primary sortas="b-networkctl">networkctl</primary>
428 </indexterm>
429 </listitem>
430 </varlistentry>
431
432 <varlistentry id="oomctl">
433 <term><command>oomctl</command></term>
434 <listitem>
435 <para>Controls the systemd Out Of Memory daemon</para>
436 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd oomctl">
437 <primary sortas="b-oomctl">oomctl</primary>
438 </indexterm>
439 </listitem>
440 </varlistentry>
441
442 <varlistentry id="portablectl">
443 <term><command>portablectl</command></term>
444 <listitem>
445 <para>Is used to attach or detach portable services from the local
446 system</para>
447 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd portablectl">
448 <primary sortas="b-portablectl">portablectl</primary>
449 </indexterm>
450 </listitem>
451 </varlistentry>
452
453 <varlistentry id="poweroff">
454 <term><command>poweroff</command></term>
455 <listitem>
456 <para>Instructs the kernel to halt the system and switch off the computer
457 (see <command>halt</command>)</para>
458 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd poweroff">
459 <primary sortas="b-poweroff">poweroff</primary>
460 </indexterm>
461 </listitem>
462 </varlistentry>
463
464 <varlistentry id="reboot">
465 <term><command>reboot</command></term>
466 <listitem>
467 <para>Instructs the kernel to reboot the system (see
468 <command>halt</command>)</para>
469 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd reboot">
470 <primary sortas="b-reboot">reboot</primary>
471 </indexterm>
472 </listitem>
473 </varlistentry>
474
475 <varlistentry id="resolvconf">
476 <term><command>resolvconf</command></term>
477 <listitem>
478 <para>Registers DNS server and domain configuration with
479 <command>systemd-resolved</command></para>
480 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd resolvconf">
481 <primary sortas="b-resolvconf">resolvconf</primary>
482 </indexterm>
483 </listitem>
484 </varlistentry>
485
486 <varlistentry id="resolvectl">
487 <term><command>resolvectl</command></term>
488 <listitem>
489 <para>Sends control commands to the network name resolution
490 manager, or resolves domain names, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses,
491 DNS records, and services</para>
492 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd resolvectl">
493 <primary sortas="b-resolvectl">resolvectl</primary>
494 </indexterm>
495 </listitem>
496 </varlistentry>
497
498 <varlistentry id="runlevel">
499 <term><command>runlevel</command></term>
500 <listitem>
501 <para>Outputs the previous and the current run-level, as noted in the
502 last run-level record in <filename>/run/utmp</filename></para>
503 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd runlevel">
504 <primary sortas="b-runlevel">runlevel</primary>
505 </indexterm>
506 </listitem>
507 </varlistentry>
508
509 <varlistentry id="shutdown">
510 <term><command>shutdown</command></term>
511 <listitem>
512 <para>Brings the system down in a safe and secure manner, signaling
513 all processes and notifying all logged-in users</para>
514 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd shutdown">
515 <primary sortas="b-shutdown">shutdown</primary>
516 </indexterm>
517 </listitem>
518 </varlistentry>
519
520 <varlistentry id="systemctl">
521 <term><command>systemctl</command></term>
522 <listitem>
523 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd system
524 and service manager</para>
525 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemctl">
526 <primary sortas="b-systemctl">systemctl</primary>
527 </indexterm>
528 </listitem>
529 </varlistentry>
530
531 <varlistentry id="systemd-ac-power">
532 <term><command>systemd-ac-power</command></term>
533 <listitem>
534 <para>Reports whether the system is connected to an external
535 power source.</para>
536 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-ac-power">
537 <primary sortas="b-systemd-ac-power">systemd-ac-power</primary>
538 </indexterm>
539 </listitem>
540 </varlistentry>
541
542 <varlistentry id="systemd-analyze">
543 <term><command>systemd-analyze</command></term>
544 <listitem>
545 <para>Is used to analyze system startup performance,
546 as well as identify troublesome systemd units</para>
547 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-analyze">
548 <primary sortas="b-systemd-analyze">systemd-analyze</primary>
549 </indexterm>
550 </listitem>
551 </varlistentry>
552
553 <varlistentry id="systemd-ask-password">
554 <term><command>systemd-ask-password</command></term>
555 <listitem>
556 <para>Is used to query a system password or passphrase from the user,
557 using a message specified on the Linux command line</para>
558 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-ask-password">
559 <primary sortas="b-systemd-ask-password">systemd-ask-password</primary>
560 </indexterm>
561 </listitem>
562 </varlistentry>
563
564 <varlistentry id="systemd-cat">
565 <term><command>systemd-cat</command></term>
566 <listitem>
567 <para>Is used to connect the STDOUT and STDERR outputs of a process
568 with the systemd journal
569 </para>
570 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cat">
571 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cat">systemd-cat</primary>
572 </indexterm>
573 </listitem>
574 </varlistentry>
575
576 <varlistentry id="systemd-cgls">
577 <term><command>systemd-cgls</command></term>
578 <listitem>
579 <para>Recursively shows the contents of the selected Linux control
580 group hierarchy in a tree</para>
581 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cgls">
582 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cgls">systemd-cgls</primary>
583 </indexterm>
584 </listitem>
585 </varlistentry>
586
587 <varlistentry id="systemd-cgtop">
588 <term><command>systemd-cgtop</command></term>
589 <listitem>
590 <para>Shows the top control groups of the local Linux control group
591 hierarchy, ordered by their CPU, memory and disk I/O loads</para>
592 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cgtop">
593 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cgtop">systemd-cgtop</primary>
594 </indexterm>
595 </listitem>
596 </varlistentry>
597
598 <varlistentry id="systemd-creds">
599 <term><command>systemd-creds</command></term>
600 <listitem>
601 <para>Displays and processes credentials</para>
602 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-creds">
603 <primary sortas="b-systemd-creds">systemd-creds</primary>
604 </indexterm>
605 </listitem>
606 </varlistentry>
607
608 <varlistentry id="systemd-delta">
609 <term><command>systemd-delta</command></term>
610 <listitem>
611 <para>Is used to identify and compare configuration files in
612 <filename class="directory">/etc</filename> that override the defaults
613 in <filename class="directory">/usr</filename></para>
614 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-delta">
615 <primary sortas="b-systemd-delta">systemd-delta</primary>
616 </indexterm>
617 </listitem>
618 </varlistentry>
619
620 <varlistentry id="systemd-detect-virt">
621 <term><command>systemd-detect-virt</command></term>
622 <listitem>
623 <para>Detects whether the system is being run in a virtual
624 environment, and adjusts udev accordingly</para>
625 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-detect-virt">
626 <primary sortas="b-systemd-detect-virt">systemd-detect-virt</primary>
627 </indexterm>
628 </listitem>
629 </varlistentry>
630
631 <varlistentry id="systemd-dissect">
632 <term><command>systemd-dissect</command></term>
633 <listitem>
634 <para>Is used to inspect OS disk images</para>
635 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-dissect">
636 <primary sortas="b-systemd-dissect">systemd-dissect</primary>
637 </indexterm>
638 </listitem>
639 </varlistentry>
640
641 <varlistentry id="systemd-escape">
642 <term><command>systemd-escape</command></term>
643 <listitem>
644 <para>Is used to escape strings for inclusion in systemd unit
645 names</para>
646 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-escape">
647 <primary sortas="b-systemd-escape">systemd-escape</primary>
648 </indexterm>
649 </listitem>
650 </varlistentry>
651
652 <varlistentry id="systemd-hwdb">
653 <term><command>systemd-hwdb</command></term>
654 <listitem>
655 <para>Is used to manage the hardware database (hwdb)</para>
656 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-hwdb">
657 <primary sortas="b-systemd-hwdb">systemd-hwdb</primary>
658 </indexterm>
659 </listitem>
660 </varlistentry>
661
662 <varlistentry id="systemd-id128">
663 <term><command>systemd-id128</command></term>
664 <listitem>
665 <para>Generates and prints id128 (UUID) strings</para>
666 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-id128">
667 <primary sortas="b-systemd-id128">systemd-id128</primary>
668 </indexterm>
669 </listitem>
670 </varlistentry>
671
672 <varlistentry id="systemd-inhibit">
673 <term><command>systemd-inhibit</command></term>
674 <listitem>
675 <para>Is used to execute a program with a shutdown, sleep or idle
676 inhibitor lock taken, preventing an action such as a system shutdown
677 until the process is completed</para>
678 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-inhibit">
679 <primary sortas="b-systemd-inhibit">systemd-inhibit</primary>
680 </indexterm>
681 </listitem>
682 </varlistentry>
683
684 <varlistentry id="systemd-machine-id-setup">
685 <term><command>systemd-machine-id-setup</command></term>
686 <listitem>
687 <para>Is used by system installer tools to initialize the machine ID
688 stored in <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> at install time with a
689 randomly generated ID</para>
690 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-machine-id-setup">
691 <primary sortas="b-systemd-machine-id-setup">systemd-machine-id-setup</primary>
692 </indexterm>
693 </listitem>
694 </varlistentry>
695
696 <varlistentry id="systemd-mount">
697 <term><command>systemd-mount</command></term>
698 <listitem>
699 <para>Is used to temporarily mount or automount disks</para>
700 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-mount">
701 <primary sortas="b-systemd-mount">systemd-mount</primary>
702 </indexterm>
703 </listitem>
704 </varlistentry>
705
706 <varlistentry id="systemd-notify">
707 <term><command>systemd-notify</command></term>
708 <listitem>
709 <para>Is used by daemon scripts to notify the init system of status
710 changes</para>
711 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-notify">
712 <primary sortas="b-systemd-notify">systemd-notify</primary>
713 </indexterm>
714 </listitem>
715 </varlistentry>
716
717 <varlistentry id="systemd-nspawn">
718 <term><command>systemd-nspawn</command></term>
719 <listitem>
720 <para>Is used to run a command, or an entire OS, in a light-weight namespace
721 container</para>
722 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-nspawn">
723 <primary sortas="b-systemd-nspawn">systemd-nspawn</primary>
724 </indexterm>
725 </listitem>
726 </varlistentry>
727
728 <varlistentry id="systemd-path">
729 <term><command>systemd-path</command></term>
730 <listitem>
731 <para>Is used to query system and user paths</para>
732 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-path">
733 <primary sortas="b-systemd-path">systemd-path</primary>
734 </indexterm>
735 </listitem>
736 </varlistentry>
737
738 <varlistentry id="systemd-repart">
739 <term><command>systemd-repart</command></term>
740 <listitem>
741 <para>Is used to grow and add partitions to a partition table when
742 systemd is used with an OS image (e.g. a container)</para>
743 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-repart">
744 <primary sortas="b-systemd-repart">systemd-repart</primary>
745 </indexterm>
746 </listitem>
747 </varlistentry>
748
749 <varlistentry id="systemd-resolve">
750 <term><command>systemd-resolve</command></term>
751 <listitem>
752 <para>Is used to resolve domain names, IPV4 and IPv6 addresses, DNS
753 resource records, and services</para>
754 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-resolve">
755 <primary sortas="b-systemd-resolve">systemd-resolve</primary>
756 </indexterm>
757 </listitem>
758 </varlistentry>
759
760 <varlistentry id="systemd-run">
761 <term><command>systemd-run</command></term>
762 <listitem>
763 <para>Is used to create and start a transient .service or a .scope
764 unit and run the specified command in it; this is useful for
765 validating systemd units</para>
766 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-run">
767 <primary sortas="b-systemd-run">systemd-run</primary>
768 </indexterm>
769 </listitem>
770 </varlistentry>
771
772 <varlistentry id="systemd-socket-activate">
773 <term><command>systemd-socket-activate</command></term>
774 <listitem>
775 <para>Is used to listen on socket devices and launch a process upon
776 a successful connection to the socket</para>
777 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-socket-activate">
778 <primary sortas="b-systemd-socket-activate">systemd-socket-activate</primary>
779 </indexterm>
780 </listitem>
781 </varlistentry>
782
783 <varlistentry id="systemd-sysext">
784 <term><command>systemd-sysext</command></term>
785 <listitem>
786 <para>Activates system extension images</para>
787 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-sysext">
788 <primary sortas="b-systemd-sysext">systemd-sysext</primary>
789 </indexterm>
790 </listitem>
791 </varlistentry>
792
793 <varlistentry id="systemd-tmpfiles">
794 <term><command>systemd-tmpfiles</command></term>
795 <listitem>
796 <para>Creates, deletes, and cleans up volatile and temporary files and
797 directories, based on the configuration file format and location
798 specified in
799 <filename class="directory">tmpfiles.d</filename> directories</para>
800 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-tmpfiles">
801 <primary sortas="b-systemd-tmpfiles">systemd-tmpfiles</primary>
802 </indexterm>
803 </listitem>
804 </varlistentry>
805
806 <varlistentry id="systemd-umount">
807 <term><command>systemd-umount</command></term>
808 <listitem>
809 <para>Unmounts mount points</para>
810 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-umount">
811 <primary sortas="b-systemd-umount">systemd-umount</primary>
812 </indexterm>
813 </listitem>
814 </varlistentry>
815
816 <varlistentry id="systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">
817 <term><command>systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</command></term>
818 <listitem>
819 <para>Is used to list and/or process pending systemd password
820 requests</para>
821 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">
822 <primary sortas="b-systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</primary>
823 </indexterm>
824 </listitem>
825 </varlistentry>
826
827 <varlistentry id="telinit">
828 <term><command>telinit</command></term>
829 <listitem>
830 <para>Tells <command>init</command> which run-level to change
831 to</para>
832 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd telinit">
833 <primary sortas="b-telinit">telinit</primary>
834 </indexterm>
835 </listitem>
836 </varlistentry>
837
838 <varlistentry id="timedatectl">
839 <term><command>timedatectl</command></term>
840 <listitem>
841 <para>Is used to query and change the system clock and its settings
842 </para>
843 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd timedatectl">
844 <primary sortas="b-timedatectl">timedatectl</primary>
845 </indexterm>
846 </listitem>
847 </varlistentry>
848
849 <varlistentry id="udevadm">
850 <term><command>udevadm</command></term>
851 <listitem>
852 <para>Is a generic udev administration tool which controls the udevd
853 daemon, provides info from the udev hardware database, monitors
854 uevents, waits for uevents to finish, tests udev configuration, and
855 triggers uevents for a given device</para>
856 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd udevadm">
857 <primary sortas="b-udevadm">udevadm</primary>
858 </indexterm>
859 </listitem>
860 </varlistentry>
861
862 <varlistentry id="libsystemd">
863 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsystemd</filename></term>
864 <listitem>
865 <para>Is the main systemd utility library</para>
866 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd libsystemd">
867 <primary sortas="c-libsystemd">libsystemd</primary>
868 </indexterm>
869 </listitem>
870 </varlistentry>
871
872 <varlistentry id="libudev">
873 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libudev</filename></term>
874 <listitem>
875 <para>Is a library to access Udev device information</para>
876 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd libudev">
877 <primary sortas="c-libudev">libudev</primary>
878 </indexterm>
879 </listitem>
880 </varlistentry>
881
882 </variablelist>
883
884 </sect2>
885
886</sect1>
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