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systemd: Fix a bug breaking systemd-verify an instantiated unit

It's breaking Git test suite (and maybe other things).

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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
64meson setup \
65 --prefix=/usr \
66 --buildtype=release \
67 -Ddefault-dnssec=no \
68 -Dfirstboot=false \
69 -Dinstall-tests=false \
70 -Dldconfig=false \
71 -Dsysusers=false \
72 -Drpmmacrosdir=no \
73 -Dhomed=disabled \
74 -Duserdb=false \
75 -Dman=disabled \
76 -Dmode=release \
77 -Dpamconfdir=no \
78 -Ddev-kvm-mode=0660 \
79 -Dnobody-group=nogroup \
80 -Dsysupdate=disabled \
81 -Dukify=disabled \
82 -Ddocdir=/usr/share/doc/systemd-&systemd-version; \
83 ..</userinput></screen>
84
85 <variablelist>
86 <title>The meaning of the meson options:</title>
87
88 <varlistentry>
89 <term><parameter>--buildtype=release</parameter></term>
90 <listitem>
91 <para>This switch overrides the default buildtype
92 (<quote>debug</quote>), which produces unoptimized
93 binaries.</para>
94 </listitem>
95 </varlistentry>
96
97 <varlistentry>
98 <term><parameter>-Ddefault-dnssec=no</parameter></term>
99 <listitem>
100 <para>This switch turns off the experimental DNSSEC support.</para>
101 </listitem>
102 </varlistentry>
103
104 <varlistentry>
105 <term><parameter>-Dfirstboot=false</parameter></term>
106 <listitem>
107 <para>This switch prevents installation of systemd
108 services responsible for setting up the system for
109 the first time. These are not useful in LFS, because
110 everything is done manually.</para>
111 </listitem>
112 </varlistentry>
113
114 <varlistentry>
115 <term><parameter>-Dinstall-tests=false</parameter></term>
116 <listitem>
117 <para>This switch prevents installation of the compiled tests.</para>
118 </listitem>
119 </varlistentry>
120
121 <varlistentry>
122 <term><parameter>-Dldconfig=false</parameter></term>
123 <listitem>
124 <para>This switch prevents installation of a systemd unit that runs
125 <command>ldconfig</command> at boot; this is not useful for source
126 distributions such as LFS, and makes the boot time longer. Remove
127 this option to enable running <command>ldconfig</command> at boot.</para>
128 </listitem>
129 </varlistentry>
130
131 <varlistentry>
132 <term><parameter>-Dsysusers=false</parameter></term>
133 <listitem>
134 <para>This switch prevents installation of systemd
135 services responsible for setting up the
136 <filename>/etc/group</filename> and
137 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> files. Both files
138 were created in the previous chapter. This daemon is not useful
139 on an LFS system since user accounts are manually created.</para>
140 </listitem>
141 </varlistentry>
142
143 <varlistentry>
144 <term><parameter>-Drpmmacrosdir=no</parameter></term>
145 <listitem>
146 <para>This switch disables installation of RPM Macros
147 for use with systemd, because LFS does not support RPM.</para>
148 </listitem>
149 </varlistentry>
150
151 <varlistentry>
152 <term><parameter>-Dhomed=disabled</parameter> and
153 <parameter>-Duserdb=false</parameter></term>
154 <listitem>
155 <para>Remove two daemons with dependencies that do not fit
156 within the scope of LFS.</para>
157 </listitem>
158 </varlistentry>
159
160 <varlistentry>
161 <term><parameter>-Dman=disabled</parameter></term>
162 <listitem>
163 <para>Prevent the generation of man pages to avoid extra
164 dependencies. We will install pre-generated man pages for systemd
165 from a tarball.</para>
166 </listitem>
167 </varlistentry>
168
169 <varlistentry>
170 <term><parameter>-Dmode=release</parameter></term>
171 <listitem>
172 <para>Disable some features considered experimental by upstream.
173 </para>
174 </listitem>
175 </varlistentry>
176
177 <varlistentry>
178 <term><parameter>-Dpamconfdir=no</parameter></term>
179 <listitem>
180 <para>Prevent the installation of a PAM configuration file not
181 functional on LFS.</para>
182 </listitem>
183 </varlistentry>
184
185 <varlistentry>
186 <term><parameter>-Ddev-kvm-mode=0660</parameter></term>
187 <listitem>
188 <para>The default udev rule would allow all users to access
189 <filename class='devicefile'>/dev/kvm</filename>. The editors
190 consider it dangerous. This option overrides it.</para>
191 </listitem>
192 </varlistentry>
193
194 <varlistentry>
195 <term><parameter>-Dnobody-group=nogroup</parameter></term>
196 <listitem>
197 <para>Tell the package the group name with GID 65534 is
198 <systemitem class='groupname'>nogroup</systemitem>.</para>
199 </listitem>
200 </varlistentry>
201
202 <varlistentry>
203 <term><parameter>-Dsysupdate=disabled</parameter></term>
204 <listitem>
205 <para>Do not install the <command>systemd-sysupdate</command>
206 tool. It's designed for automatically upgrading binary distros,
207 so it's useless for a basic Linux system built from source.
208 And it will report errors on boot if it's enabled but not properly
209 configured.</para>
210 </listitem>
211 </varlistentry>
212
213 <varlistentry>
214 <term><parameter>-Dukify=disabled</parameter></term>
215 <listitem>
216 <para>Do not install the <command>systemd-ukify</command> script.
217 At runtime this script requires the
218 <application>pefile</application> Python module that neither LFS
219 nor BLFS provides.</para>
220 </listitem>
221 </varlistentry>
222
223 </variablelist>
224
225 <para>Compile the package:</para>
226
227<screen><userinput remap="make">ninja</userinput></screen>
228
229 <para>Install the package:</para>
230
231<screen><userinput remap="install">ninja install</userinput></screen>
232
233 <para>Install the man pages:</para>
234
235 <!-- Please make sure systemd man pages tarball has a common leading
236 component in the path. -->
237<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xf ../../systemd-man-pages-&systemd-version;.tar.xz \
238 --no-same-owner --strip-components=1 \
239 -C /usr/share/man</userinput></screen>
240
241 <para>Create the <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> file needed by
242 <command>systemd-journald</command>:</para>
243
244<screen><userinput remap="adjust">systemd-machine-id-setup</userinput></screen>
245
246 <para>Set up the basic target structure:</para>
247
248<screen><userinput remap="adjust">systemctl preset-all</userinput></screen>
249
250<!-- dev: 50-pid-max.conf is not removed in BLFS, so I commented the following out.
251 If it causes any trouble, we can add this back and also copy it into BLFS -->
252<!--
253 <para>Prevent systemd from resetting the maximum PID value which causes
254 some problems with packages and units in BLFS:</para>
255
256<screen><userinput remap="adjust">rm -f /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-pid-max.conf</userinput></screen>
257-->
258
259 </sect2>
260
261 <sect2 id="contents-systemd" role="content">
262 <title>Contents of systemd</title>
263
264 <segmentedlist>
265 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
266 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
267 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
268
269 <seglistitem>
270 <seg>busctl, coredumpctl, halt (symlink to systemctl),
271 hostnamectl, init, journalctl, kernel-install, localectl, loginctl,
272 machinectl, mount.ddi (symlink to systemd-dissect), networkctl,
273 oomctl, portablectl, poweroff (symlink to
274 systemctl), reboot (symlink to systemctl), resolvconf (symlink to
275 resolvectl), resolvectl, runlevel (symlink to systemctl), shutdown
276 (symlink to systemctl), systemctl, systemd-ac-power, systemd-analyze,
277 systemd-ask-password, systemd-cat, systemd-cgls, systemd-cgtop,
278 systemd-confext (symlink to systemd-sysext), systemd-creds,
279 systemd-delta, systemd-detect-virt,
280 systemd-dissect, systemd-escape, systemd-hwdb, systemd-id128,
281 systemd-inhibit, systemd-machine-id-setup,
282 systemd-mount, systemd-notify, systemd-nspawn, systemd-path,
283 systemd-repart, systemd-resolve (symlink to resolvectl), systemd-run,
284 systemd-socket-activate, systemd-stdio-bridge, systemd-sysext,
285 systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-tty-ask-password-agent,
286 systemd-umount (symlink to systemd-mount),
287 telinit (symlink to systemctl), timedatectl, and udevadm</seg>
288 <seg>libnss_myhostname.so.2, libnss_mymachines.so.2,
289 libnss_resolve.so.2, libnss_systemd.so.2,
290 libsystemd.so, libsystemd-shared-&systemd-version;.so (in /usr/lib/systemd),
291 and libudev.so</seg>
292 <seg>/etc/binfmt.d, /etc/init.d, /etc/kernel, /etc/modules-load.d,
293 /etc/sysctl.d, /etc/systemd, /etc/tmpfiles.d, /etc/udev,
294 /etc/xdg/systemd, /usr/lib/systemd, /usr/lib/udev, /usr/include/systemd,
295 /usr/lib/binfmt.d, /usr/lib/environment.d, /usr/lib/kernel,
296 /usr/lib/modules-load.d, /usr/lib/sysctl.d, /usr/lib/systemd,
297 /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d,
298 /usr/share/doc/systemd-&systemd-version;, /usr/share/factory,
299 /usr/share/systemd, /var/lib/systemd, and /var/log/journal</seg>
300 </seglistitem>
301 </segmentedlist>
302
303 <variablelist>
304 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
305 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
306 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
307
308 <varlistentry id="busctl">
309 <term><command>busctl</command></term>
310 <listitem>
311 <para>Is used to introspect and monitor the D-Bus bus</para>
312 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd busctl">
313 <primary sortas="b-busctl">busctl</primary>
314 </indexterm>
315 </listitem>
316 </varlistentry>
317
318 <varlistentry id="coredumpctl">
319 <term><command>coredumpctl</command></term>
320 <listitem>
321 <para>Is used to retrieve coredumps from the systemd journal</para>
322 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd coredumpctl">
323 <primary sortas="b-coredumpctl">coredumpctl</primary>
324 </indexterm>
325 </listitem>
326 </varlistentry>
327
328 <varlistentry id="halt">
329 <term><command>halt</command></term>
330 <listitem>
331 <para>Normally invokes <command>shutdown</command> with the
332 <parameter>-h</parameter> option, except when already in run-level 0,
333 when it tells the kernel to halt the system; it notes in the
334 file <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename> that the system is being
335 brought down</para>
336 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd halt">
337 <primary sortas="b-halt">halt</primary>
338 </indexterm>
339 </listitem>
340 </varlistentry>
341
342 <varlistentry id="hostnamectl">
343 <term><command>hostnamectl</command></term>
344 <listitem>
345 <para>Is used to query and change the system hostname and related
346 settings</para>
347 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd hostnamectl">
348 <primary sortas="b-hostnamectl">hostnamectl</primary>
349 </indexterm>
350 </listitem>
351 </varlistentry>
352
353 <varlistentry id="init">
354 <term><command>init</command></term>
355 <listitem>
356 <para>Is the first process to be started after the kernel has initialized
357 the hardware; <command>init</command> takes over the boot process and starts the
358 processes specified by its configuration files; in this case, it starts
359 systemd</para>
360 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd init">
361 <primary sortas="b-init">init</primary>
362 </indexterm>
363 </listitem>
364 </varlistentry>
365
366 <varlistentry id="journalctl">
367 <term><command>journalctl</command></term>
368 <listitem>
369 <para>Is used to query the contents of the systemd journal</para>
370 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd journalctl">
371 <primary sortas="b-journalctl">journalctl</primary>
372 </indexterm>
373 </listitem>
374 </varlistentry>
375
376 <varlistentry id="kernel-install">
377 <term><command>kernel-install</command></term>
378 <listitem>
379 <para>Is used to add and remove kernel and initramfs images to and
380 from /boot; in LFS, this is done manually</para>
381 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd kernel-install">
382 <primary sortas="b-kernel-install">kernel-install</primary>
383 </indexterm>
384 </listitem>
385 </varlistentry>
386
387 <varlistentry id="localectl">
388 <term><command>localectl</command></term>
389 <listitem>
390 <para>Is used to query and change the system locale and keyboard layout
391 settings</para>
392 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd localectl">
393 <primary sortas="b-localectl">localectl</primary>
394 </indexterm>
395 </listitem>
396 </varlistentry>
397
398 <varlistentry id="loginctl">
399 <term><command>loginctl</command></term>
400 <listitem>
401 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd Login
402 Manager</para>
403 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd loginctl">
404 <primary sortas="b-loginctl">loginctl</primary>
405 </indexterm>
406 </listitem>
407 </varlistentry>
408
409 <varlistentry id="machinectl">
410 <term><command>machinectl</command></term>
411 <listitem>
412 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd Virtual
413 Machine and Container Registration Manager</para>
414 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd machinectl">
415 <primary sortas="b-machinectl">machinectl</primary>
416 </indexterm>
417 </listitem>
418 </varlistentry>
419
420 <varlistentry id="networkctl">
421 <term><command>networkctl</command></term>
422 <listitem>
423 <para>Is used to introspect and configure the state of the network
424 links configured by systemd-networkd</para>
425 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd networkctl">
426 <primary sortas="b-networkctl">networkctl</primary>
427 </indexterm>
428 </listitem>
429 </varlistentry>
430
431 <varlistentry id="oomctl">
432 <term><command>oomctl</command></term>
433 <listitem>
434 <para>Controls the systemd Out Of Memory daemon</para>
435 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd oomctl">
436 <primary sortas="b-oomctl">oomctl</primary>
437 </indexterm>
438 </listitem>
439 </varlistentry>
440
441 <varlistentry id="portablectl">
442 <term><command>portablectl</command></term>
443 <listitem>
444 <para>Is used to attach or detach portable services from the local
445 system</para>
446 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd portablectl">
447 <primary sortas="b-portablectl">portablectl</primary>
448 </indexterm>
449 </listitem>
450 </varlistentry>
451
452 <varlistentry id="poweroff">
453 <term><command>poweroff</command></term>
454 <listitem>
455 <para>Instructs the kernel to halt the system and switch off the computer
456 (see <command>halt</command>)</para>
457 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd poweroff">
458 <primary sortas="b-poweroff">poweroff</primary>
459 </indexterm>
460 </listitem>
461 </varlistentry>
462
463 <varlistentry id="reboot">
464 <term><command>reboot</command></term>
465 <listitem>
466 <para>Instructs the kernel to reboot the system (see
467 <command>halt</command>)</para>
468 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd reboot">
469 <primary sortas="b-reboot">reboot</primary>
470 </indexterm>
471 </listitem>
472 </varlistentry>
473
474 <varlistentry id="resolvconf">
475 <term><command>resolvconf</command></term>
476 <listitem>
477 <para>Registers DNS server and domain configuration with
478 <command>systemd-resolved</command></para>
479 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd resolvconf">
480 <primary sortas="b-resolvconf">resolvconf</primary>
481 </indexterm>
482 </listitem>
483 </varlistentry>
484
485 <varlistentry id="resolvectl">
486 <term><command>resolvectl</command></term>
487 <listitem>
488 <para>Sends control commands to the network name resolution
489 manager, or resolves domain names, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses,
490 DNS records, and services</para>
491 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd resolvectl">
492 <primary sortas="b-resolvectl">resolvectl</primary>
493 </indexterm>
494 </listitem>
495 </varlistentry>
496
497 <varlistentry id="runlevel">
498 <term><command>runlevel</command></term>
499 <listitem>
500 <para>Outputs the previous and the current run-level, as noted in the
501 last run-level record in <filename>/run/utmp</filename></para>
502 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd runlevel">
503 <primary sortas="b-runlevel">runlevel</primary>
504 </indexterm>
505 </listitem>
506 </varlistentry>
507
508 <varlistentry id="shutdown">
509 <term><command>shutdown</command></term>
510 <listitem>
511 <para>Brings the system down in a safe and secure manner, signaling
512 all processes and notifying all logged-in users</para>
513 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd shutdown">
514 <primary sortas="b-shutdown">shutdown</primary>
515 </indexterm>
516 </listitem>
517 </varlistentry>
518
519 <varlistentry id="systemctl">
520 <term><command>systemctl</command></term>
521 <listitem>
522 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd system
523 and service manager</para>
524 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemctl">
525 <primary sortas="b-systemctl">systemctl</primary>
526 </indexterm>
527 </listitem>
528 </varlistentry>
529
530 <varlistentry id="systemd-ac-power">
531 <term><command>systemd-ac-power</command></term>
532 <listitem>
533 <para>Reports whether the system is connected to an external
534 power source.</para>
535 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-ac-power">
536 <primary sortas="b-systemd-ac-power">systemd-ac-power</primary>
537 </indexterm>
538 </listitem>
539 </varlistentry>
540
541 <varlistentry id="systemd-analyze">
542 <term><command>systemd-analyze</command></term>
543 <listitem>
544 <para>Is used to analyze system startup performance,
545 as well as identify troublesome systemd units</para>
546 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-analyze">
547 <primary sortas="b-systemd-analyze">systemd-analyze</primary>
548 </indexterm>
549 </listitem>
550 </varlistentry>
551
552 <varlistentry id="systemd-ask-password">
553 <term><command>systemd-ask-password</command></term>
554 <listitem>
555 <para>Is used to query a system password or passphrase from the user,
556 using a message specified on the Linux command line</para>
557 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-ask-password">
558 <primary sortas="b-systemd-ask-password">systemd-ask-password</primary>
559 </indexterm>
560 </listitem>
561 </varlistentry>
562
563 <varlistentry id="systemd-cat">
564 <term><command>systemd-cat</command></term>
565 <listitem>
566 <para>Is used to connect the STDOUT and STDERR outputs of a process
567 with the systemd journal
568 </para>
569 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cat">
570 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cat">systemd-cat</primary>
571 </indexterm>
572 </listitem>
573 </varlistentry>
574
575 <varlistentry id="systemd-cgls">
576 <term><command>systemd-cgls</command></term>
577 <listitem>
578 <para>Recursively shows the contents of the selected Linux control
579 group hierarchy in a tree</para>
580 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cgls">
581 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cgls">systemd-cgls</primary>
582 </indexterm>
583 </listitem>
584 </varlistentry>
585
586 <varlistentry id="systemd-cgtop">
587 <term><command>systemd-cgtop</command></term>
588 <listitem>
589 <para>Shows the top control groups of the local Linux control group
590 hierarchy, ordered by their CPU, memory and disk I/O loads</para>
591 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cgtop">
592 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cgtop">systemd-cgtop</primary>
593 </indexterm>
594 </listitem>
595 </varlistentry>
596
597 <varlistentry id="systemd-creds">
598 <term><command>systemd-creds</command></term>
599 <listitem>
600 <para>Displays and processes credentials</para>
601 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-creds">
602 <primary sortas="b-systemd-creds">systemd-creds</primary>
603 </indexterm>
604 </listitem>
605 </varlistentry>
606
607 <varlistentry id="systemd-delta">
608 <term><command>systemd-delta</command></term>
609 <listitem>
610 <para>Is used to identify and compare configuration files in
611 <filename class="directory">/etc</filename> that override the defaults
612 in <filename class="directory">/usr</filename></para>
613 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-delta">
614 <primary sortas="b-systemd-delta">systemd-delta</primary>
615 </indexterm>
616 </listitem>
617 </varlistentry>
618
619 <varlistentry id="systemd-detect-virt">
620 <term><command>systemd-detect-virt</command></term>
621 <listitem>
622 <para>Detects whether the system is being run in a virtual
623 environment, and adjusts udev accordingly</para>
624 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-detect-virt">
625 <primary sortas="b-systemd-detect-virt">systemd-detect-virt</primary>
626 </indexterm>
627 </listitem>
628 </varlistentry>
629
630 <varlistentry id="systemd-dissect">
631 <term><command>systemd-dissect</command></term>
632 <listitem>
633 <para>Is used to inspect OS disk images</para>
634 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-dissect">
635 <primary sortas="b-systemd-dissect">systemd-dissect</primary>
636 </indexterm>
637 </listitem>
638 </varlistentry>
639
640 <varlistentry id="systemd-escape">
641 <term><command>systemd-escape</command></term>
642 <listitem>
643 <para>Is used to escape strings for inclusion in systemd unit
644 names</para>
645 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-escape">
646 <primary sortas="b-systemd-escape">systemd-escape</primary>
647 </indexterm>
648 </listitem>
649 </varlistentry>
650
651 <varlistentry id="systemd-hwdb">
652 <term><command>systemd-hwdb</command></term>
653 <listitem>
654 <para>Is used to manage the hardware database (hwdb)</para>
655 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-hwdb">
656 <primary sortas="b-systemd-hwdb">systemd-hwdb</primary>
657 </indexterm>
658 </listitem>
659 </varlistentry>
660
661 <varlistentry id="systemd-id128">
662 <term><command>systemd-id128</command></term>
663 <listitem>
664 <para>Generates and prints id128 (UUID) strings</para>
665 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-id128">
666 <primary sortas="b-systemd-id128">systemd-id128</primary>
667 </indexterm>
668 </listitem>
669 </varlistentry>
670
671 <varlistentry id="systemd-inhibit">
672 <term><command>systemd-inhibit</command></term>
673 <listitem>
674 <para>Is used to execute a program with a shutdown, sleep or idle
675 inhibitor lock taken, preventing an action such as a system shutdown
676 until the process is completed</para>
677 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-inhibit">
678 <primary sortas="b-systemd-inhibit">systemd-inhibit</primary>
679 </indexterm>
680 </listitem>
681 </varlistentry>
682
683 <varlistentry id="systemd-machine-id-setup">
684 <term><command>systemd-machine-id-setup</command></term>
685 <listitem>
686 <para>Is used by system installer tools to initialize the machine ID
687 stored in <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> at install time with a
688 randomly generated ID</para>
689 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-machine-id-setup">
690 <primary sortas="b-systemd-machine-id-setup">systemd-machine-id-setup</primary>
691 </indexterm>
692 </listitem>
693 </varlistentry>
694
695 <varlistentry id="systemd-mount">
696 <term><command>systemd-mount</command></term>
697 <listitem>
698 <para>Is used to temporarily mount or automount disks</para>
699 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-mount">
700 <primary sortas="b-systemd-mount">systemd-mount</primary>
701 </indexterm>
702 </listitem>
703 </varlistentry>
704
705 <varlistentry id="systemd-notify">
706 <term><command>systemd-notify</command></term>
707 <listitem>
708 <para>Is used by daemon scripts to notify the init system of status
709 changes</para>
710 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-notify">
711 <primary sortas="b-systemd-notify">systemd-notify</primary>
712 </indexterm>
713 </listitem>
714 </varlistentry>
715
716 <varlistentry id="systemd-nspawn">
717 <term><command>systemd-nspawn</command></term>
718 <listitem>
719 <para>Is used to run a command, or an entire OS, in a light-weight namespace
720 container</para>
721 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-nspawn">
722 <primary sortas="b-systemd-nspawn">systemd-nspawn</primary>
723 </indexterm>
724 </listitem>
725 </varlistentry>
726
727 <varlistentry id="systemd-path">
728 <term><command>systemd-path</command></term>
729 <listitem>
730 <para>Is used to query system and user paths</para>
731 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-path">
732 <primary sortas="b-systemd-path">systemd-path</primary>
733 </indexterm>
734 </listitem>
735 </varlistentry>
736
737 <varlistentry id="systemd-repart">
738 <term><command>systemd-repart</command></term>
739 <listitem>
740 <para>Is used to grow and add partitions to a partition table when
741 systemd is used with an OS image (e.g. a container)</para>
742 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-repart">
743 <primary sortas="b-systemd-repart">systemd-repart</primary>
744 </indexterm>
745 </listitem>
746 </varlistentry>
747
748 <varlistentry id="systemd-resolve">
749 <term><command>systemd-resolve</command></term>
750 <listitem>
751 <para>Is used to resolve domain names, IPV4 and IPv6 addresses, DNS
752 resource records, and services</para>
753 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-resolve">
754 <primary sortas="b-systemd-resolve">systemd-resolve</primary>
755 </indexterm>
756 </listitem>
757 </varlistentry>
758
759 <varlistentry id="systemd-run">
760 <term><command>systemd-run</command></term>
761 <listitem>
762 <para>Is used to create and start a transient .service or a .scope
763 unit and run the specified command in it; this is useful for
764 validating systemd units</para>
765 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-run">
766 <primary sortas="b-systemd-run">systemd-run</primary>
767 </indexterm>
768 </listitem>
769 </varlistentry>
770
771 <varlistentry id="systemd-socket-activate">
772 <term><command>systemd-socket-activate</command></term>
773 <listitem>
774 <para>Is used to listen on socket devices and launch a process upon
775 a successful connection to the socket</para>
776 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-socket-activate">
777 <primary sortas="b-systemd-socket-activate">systemd-socket-activate</primary>
778 </indexterm>
779 </listitem>
780 </varlistentry>
781
782 <varlistentry id="systemd-sysext">
783 <term><command>systemd-sysext</command></term>
784 <listitem>
785 <para>Activates system extension images</para>
786 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-sysext">
787 <primary sortas="b-systemd-sysext">systemd-sysext</primary>
788 </indexterm>
789 </listitem>
790 </varlistentry>
791
792 <varlistentry id="systemd-tmpfiles">
793 <term><command>systemd-tmpfiles</command></term>
794 <listitem>
795 <para>Creates, deletes, and cleans up volatile and temporary files and
796 directories, based on the configuration file format and location
797 specified in
798 <filename class="directory">tmpfiles.d</filename> directories</para>
799 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-tmpfiles">
800 <primary sortas="b-systemd-tmpfiles">systemd-tmpfiles</primary>
801 </indexterm>
802 </listitem>
803 </varlistentry>
804
805 <varlistentry id="systemd-umount">
806 <term><command>systemd-umount</command></term>
807 <listitem>
808 <para>Unmounts mount points</para>
809 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-umount">
810 <primary sortas="b-systemd-umount">systemd-umount</primary>
811 </indexterm>
812 </listitem>
813 </varlistentry>
814
815 <varlistentry id="systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">
816 <term><command>systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</command></term>
817 <listitem>
818 <para>Is used to list and/or process pending systemd password
819 requests</para>
820 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">
821 <primary sortas="b-systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</primary>
822 </indexterm>
823 </listitem>
824 </varlistentry>
825
826 <varlistentry id="telinit">
827 <term><command>telinit</command></term>
828 <listitem>
829 <para>Tells <command>init</command> which run-level to change
830 to</para>
831 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd telinit">
832 <primary sortas="b-telinit">telinit</primary>
833 </indexterm>
834 </listitem>
835 </varlistentry>
836
837 <varlistentry id="timedatectl">
838 <term><command>timedatectl</command></term>
839 <listitem>
840 <para>Is used to query and change the system clock and its settings
841 </para>
842 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd timedatectl">
843 <primary sortas="b-timedatectl">timedatectl</primary>
844 </indexterm>
845 </listitem>
846 </varlistentry>
847
848 <varlistentry id="udevadm">
849 <term><command>udevadm</command></term>
850 <listitem>
851 <para>Is a generic udev administration tool which controls the udevd
852 daemon, provides info from the udev hardware database, monitors
853 uevents, waits for uevents to finish, tests udev configuration, and
854 triggers uevents for a given device</para>
855 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd udevadm">
856 <primary sortas="b-udevadm">udevadm</primary>
857 </indexterm>
858 </listitem>
859 </varlistentry>
860
861 <varlistentry id="libsystemd">
862 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsystemd</filename></term>
863 <listitem>
864 <para>Is the main systemd utility library</para>
865 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd libsystemd">
866 <primary sortas="c-libsystemd">libsystemd</primary>
867 </indexterm>
868 </listitem>
869 </varlistentry>
870
871 <varlistentry id="libudev">
872 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libudev</filename></term>
873 <listitem>
874 <para>Is a library to access Udev device information</para>
875 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd libudev">
876 <primary sortas="c-libudev">libudev</primary>
877 </indexterm>
878 </listitem>
879 </varlistentry>
880
881 </variablelist>
882
883 </sect2>
884
885</sect1>
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