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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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 <para>Prepare systemd for compilation:</para>
52
53<screen><userinput remap="configure">mkdir -p build
54cd build
55
56meson --prefix=/usr \
57 --buildtype=release \
58 -Ddefault-dnssec=no \
59 -Dfirstboot=false \
60 -Dinstall-tests=false \
61 -Dldconfig=false \
62 -Dsysusers=false \
63 -Drpmmacrosdir=no \
64 -Dhomed=false \
65 -Duserdb=false \
66 -Dman=false \
67 -Dmode=release \
68 -Dpamconfdir=no \
69 -Ddocdir=/usr/share/doc/systemd-&systemd-version; \
70 ..</userinput></screen>
71
72 <variablelist>
73 <title>The meaning of the meson options:</title>
74
75 <varlistentry>
76 <term><parameter>--buildtype=release</parameter></term>
77 <listitem>
78 <para>This switch overrides the default buildtype
79 (<quote>debug</quote>), which would produce unoptimized
80 binaries.</para>
81 </listitem>
82 </varlistentry>
83
84 <varlistentry>
85 <term><parameter>-Ddefault-dnssec=no</parameter></term>
86 <listitem>
87 <para>This switch turns off the experimental DNSSEC support.</para>
88 </listitem>
89 </varlistentry>
90
91 <varlistentry>
92 <term><parameter>-Dfirstboot=false</parameter></term>
93 <listitem>
94 <para>This switch prevents installation of systemd
95 services responsible for setting up the system for
96 the first time. They are not useful for LFS because
97 everything is done manually.</para>
98 </listitem>
99 </varlistentry>
100
101 <varlistentry>
102 <term><parameter>-Dinstall-tests=false</parameter></term>
103 <listitem>
104 <para>This switch prevents installation of the compiled tests.</para>
105 </listitem>
106 </varlistentry>
107
108 <varlistentry>
109 <term><parameter>-Dldconfig=false</parameter></term>
110 <listitem>
111 <para>This switch prevents installation of a systemd unit that runs
112 <command>ldconfig</command> at boot, which is not useful for source
113 distributions such as LFS and makes the boot time longer. Remove it
114 if the described feature is desired.</para>
115 </listitem>
116 </varlistentry>
117
118 <varlistentry>
119 <term><parameter>-Dsysusers=false</parameter></term>
120 <listitem>
121 <para>This switch prevents installation of systemd
122 services responsible for setting up the
123 <filename>/etc/group</filename> and
124 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> files. Both files
125 were created in the previous chapter. This daemon is not useful
126 on an LFS system since user accounts are manually created.</para>
127 </listitem>
128 </varlistentry>
129
130 <varlistentry>
131 <term><parameter>-Drpmmacrosdir=no</parameter></term>
132 <listitem>
133 <para>This switch disables installation of RPM Macros
134 for use with systemd because LFS does not support RPM.</para>
135 </listitem>
136 </varlistentry>
137
138 <varlistentry>
139 <term><parameter>-D{userdb,homed}=false</parameter></term>
140 <listitem>
141 <para>Remove two daemons that have dependencies that do not fit
142 the scope of LFS.</para>
143 </listitem>
144 </varlistentry>
145
146 <varlistentry>
147 <term><parameter>-Dman=false</parameter></term>
148 <listitem>
149 <para>Prevent the generation of man pages to avoid extra
150 dependencies. We will install pre-generated man pages for systemd
151 from a tarball later.</para>
152 </listitem>
153 </varlistentry>
154
155 <varlistentry>
156 <term><parameter>-Dmode=release</parameter></term>
157 <listitem>
158 <para>Disable some features considered experimental by upstream.
159 </para>
160 </listitem>
161 </varlistentry>
162
163 <varlistentry>
164 <term><parameter>-Dpamconfdir=no</parameter></term>
165 <listitem>
166 <para>Prevent the installation of a PAM configuration file not
167 functional on LFS.</para>
168 </listitem>
169 </varlistentry>
170 </variablelist>
171
172 <para>Compile the package:</para>
173
174<screen><userinput remap="make">ninja</userinput></screen>
175
176 <para>Install the package:</para>
177
178<screen><userinput remap="install">ninja install</userinput></screen>
179
180 <para>Install the man pages:</para>
181
182 <!-- Please make sure systemd man pages tarball has a common leading
183 component in the path. -->
184<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xf ../../systemd-man-pages-&systemd-man-version;.tar.xz --strip-components=1 -C /usr/share/man</userinput></screen>
185
186 <para>Create the <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> file needed by
187 <command>systemd-journald</command>:</para>
188
189<screen><userinput remap="adjust">systemd-machine-id-setup</userinput></screen>
190
191 <para>Setup the basic target structure:</para>
192
193<screen><userinput remap="adjust">systemctl preset-all</userinput></screen>
194
195 <para>Disable a service for upgrading binary distros. It's useless for
196 a basic Linux system built from source, and it will report an error if
197 it's enabled but not configured:</para>
198
199<screen><userinput remap="adjust">systemctl disable systemd-sysupdate</userinput></screen>
200
201<!-- dev: 50-pid-max.conf is not removed in BLFS, so I commented the following out.
202 If it causes any trouble, we can add this back and also copy it into BLFS -->
203<!--
204 <para>Prevent systemd from resetting the maximum PID value which causes
205 some problems with packages and units in BLFS:</para>
206
207<screen><userinput remap="adjust">rm -f /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-pid-max.conf</userinput></screen>
208-->
209
210 </sect2>
211
212 <sect2 id="contents-systemd" role="content">
213 <title>Contents of systemd</title>
214
215 <segmentedlist>
216 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
217 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
218 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
219
220 <seglistitem>
221 <seg>busctl, coredumpctl, halt (symlink to systemctl),
222 hostnamectl, init, journalctl, kernel-install, localectl, loginctl,
223 machinectl, networkctl, oomctl, portablectl, poweroff (symlink to
224 systemctl), reboot (symlink to systemctl), resolvconf (symlink to
225 resolvectl), resolvectl, runlevel (symlink to systemctl), shutdown
226 (symlink to systemctl), systemctl, systemd-analyze,
227 systemd-ask-password, systemd-cat, systemd-cgls, systemd-cgtop,
228 systemd-creds, systemd-delta, systemd-detect-virt,
229 systemd-dissect, systemd-escape, systemd-hwdb, systemd-id128,
230 systemd-inhibit, systemd-machine-id-setup,
231 systemd-mount, systemd-notify, systemd-nspawn, systemd-path,
232 systemd-repart, systemd-resolve (symlink to resolvectl), systemd-run,
233 systemd-socket-activate, systemd-stdio-bridge, systemd-sysext,
234 systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-tty-ask-password-agent,
235 systemd-umount (symlink to systemd-mount),
236 telinit (symlink to systemctl), timedatectl, and udevadm</seg>
237 <seg>libnss_myhostname.so.2, libnss_mymachines.so.2,
238 libnss_resolve.so.2, libnss_systemd.so.2,
239 libsystemd.so, libsystemd-shared-&systemd-version;.so (in /usr/lib/systemd),
240 and libudev.so</seg>
241 <seg>/etc/binfmt.d, /etc/init.d, /etc/kernel, /etc/modules-load.d,
242 /etc/sysctl.d, /etc/systemd, /etc/tmpfiles.d, /etc/udev,
243 /etc/xdg/systemd, /usr/lib/systemd, /usr/lib/udev, /usr/include/systemd,
244 /usr/lib/binfmt.d, /usr/lib/environment.d, /usr/lib/kernel,
245 /usr/lib/modules-load.d, /usr/lib/sysctl.d, /usr/lib/systemd,
246 /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d,
247 /usr/share/doc/systemd-&systemd-version;, /usr/share/factory,
248 /usr/share/systemd, /var/lib/systemd, and /var/log/journal</seg>
249 </seglistitem>
250 </segmentedlist>
251
252 <variablelist>
253 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
254 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
255 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
256
257 <varlistentry id="busctl">
258 <term><command>busctl</command></term>
259 <listitem>
260 <para>Is used to introspect and monitor the D-Bus bus</para>
261 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd busctl">
262 <primary sortas="b-busctl">busctl</primary>
263 </indexterm>
264 </listitem>
265 </varlistentry>
266
267 <varlistentry id="coredumpctl">
268 <term><command>coredumpctl</command></term>
269 <listitem>
270 <para>Is used to retrieve coredumps from the systemd journal</para>
271 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd coredumpctl">
272 <primary sortas="b-coredumpctl">coredumpctl</primary>
273 </indexterm>
274 </listitem>
275 </varlistentry>
276
277 <varlistentry id="halt">
278 <term><command>halt</command></term>
279 <listitem>
280 <para>Normally invokes <command>shutdown</command> with the
281 <parameter>-h</parameter> option, except when already in run-level 0,
282 then it tells the kernel to halt the system; it notes in the
283 file <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename> that the system is being
284 brought down</para>
285 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd halt">
286 <primary sortas="b-halt">halt</primary>
287 </indexterm>
288 </listitem>
289 </varlistentry>
290
291 <varlistentry id="hostnamectl">
292 <term><command>hostnamectl</command></term>
293 <listitem>
294 <para>Is used to query and change the system hostname and related
295 settings</para>
296 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd hostnamectl">
297 <primary sortas="b-hostnamectl">hostnamectl</primary>
298 </indexterm>
299 </listitem>
300 </varlistentry>
301
302 <varlistentry id="init">
303 <term><command>init</command></term>
304 <listitem>
305 <para>Is the first process to be started when the kernel has initialized
306 the hardware which takes over the boot process and starts all
307 processes according to its configuration files. In this case, it starts
308 systemd</para>
309 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd init">
310 <primary sortas="b-init">init</primary>
311 </indexterm>
312 </listitem>
313 </varlistentry>
314
315 <varlistentry id="journalctl">
316 <term><command>journalctl</command></term>
317 <listitem>
318 <para>Is used to query the contents of the systemd journal</para>
319 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd journalctl">
320 <primary sortas="b-journalctl">journalctl</primary>
321 </indexterm>
322 </listitem>
323 </varlistentry>
324
325 <varlistentry id="kernel-install">
326 <term><command>kernel-install</command></term>
327 <listitem>
328 <para>Is used to add and remove kernel and initramfs images to and
329 from /boot. In LFS, this is done manually</para>
330 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd kernel-install">
331 <primary sortas="b-kernel-install">kernel-install</primary>
332 </indexterm>
333 </listitem>
334 </varlistentry>
335
336 <varlistentry id="localectl">
337 <term><command>localectl</command></term>
338 <listitem>
339 <para>Is used to query and change the system locale and keyboard layout
340 settings</para>
341 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd localectl">
342 <primary sortas="b-localectl">localectl</primary>
343 </indexterm>
344 </listitem>
345 </varlistentry>
346
347 <varlistentry id="loginctl">
348 <term><command>loginctl</command></term>
349 <listitem>
350 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd Login
351 Manager</para>
352 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd loginctl">
353 <primary sortas="b-loginctl">loginctl</primary>
354 </indexterm>
355 </listitem>
356 </varlistentry>
357
358 <varlistentry id="machinectl">
359 <term><command>machinectl</command></term>
360 <listitem>
361 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd Virtual
362 Machine and Container Registration Manager</para>
363 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd machinectl">
364 <primary sortas="b-machinectl">machinectl</primary>
365 </indexterm>
366 </listitem>
367 </varlistentry>
368
369 <varlistentry id="networkctl">
370 <term><command>networkctl</command></term>
371 <listitem>
372 <para>Is used to introspect and configure the state of the network
373 links configured by systemd-networkd</para>
374 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd networkctl">
375 <primary sortas="b-networkctl">networkctl</primary>
376 </indexterm>
377 </listitem>
378 </varlistentry>
379
380 <varlistentry id="oomctl">
381 <term><command>oomctl</command></term>
382 <listitem>
383 <para>Controls the systemd Out Of Memory daemon</para>
384 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd oomctl">
385 <primary sortas="b-oomctl">oomctl</primary>
386 </indexterm>
387 </listitem>
388 </varlistentry>
389
390 <varlistentry id="portablectl">
391 <term><command>portablectl</command></term>
392 <listitem>
393 <para>Is used to attach or detach portable services from the local
394 system</para>
395 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd portablectl">
396 <primary sortas="b-portablectl">portablectl</primary>
397 </indexterm>
398 </listitem>
399 </varlistentry>
400
401 <varlistentry id="poweroff">
402 <term><command>poweroff</command></term>
403 <listitem>
404 <para>Instructs the kernel to halt the system and switch off the computer
405 (see <command>halt</command>)</para>
406 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd poweroff">
407 <primary sortas="b-poweroff">poweroff</primary>
408 </indexterm>
409 </listitem>
410 </varlistentry>
411
412 <varlistentry id="reboot">
413 <term><command>reboot</command></term>
414 <listitem>
415 <para>Instructs the kernel to reboot the system (see
416 <command>halt</command>)</para>
417 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd reboot">
418 <primary sortas="b-reboot">reboot</primary>
419 </indexterm>
420 </listitem>
421 </varlistentry>
422
423 <varlistentry id="resolvconf">
424 <term><command>resolvconf</command></term>
425 <listitem>
426 <para>Registers DNS server and domain configuration with
427 <command>systemd-resolved</command></para>
428 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd resolvconf">
429 <primary sortas="b-resolvconf">resolvconf</primary>
430 </indexterm>
431 </listitem>
432 </varlistentry>
433
434 <varlistentry id="resolvectl">
435 <term><command>resolvectl</command></term>
436 <listitem>
437 <para>Sends control commands to the network name resolution
438 manager, or resolves domain names, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses,
439 DNS records, and services</para>
440 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd resolvectl">
441 <primary sortas="b-resolvectl">resolvectl</primary>
442 </indexterm>
443 </listitem>
444 </varlistentry>
445
446 <varlistentry id="runlevel">
447 <term><command>runlevel</command></term>
448 <listitem>
449 <para>Outputs the previous and the current run-level, as noted in the
450 last run-level record in <filename>/run/utmp</filename></para>
451 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd runlevel">
452 <primary sortas="b-runlevel">runlevel</primary>
453 </indexterm>
454 </listitem>
455 </varlistentry>
456
457 <varlistentry id="shutdown">
458 <term><command>shutdown</command></term>
459 <listitem>
460 <para>Brings the system down in a safe and secure manner, signaling
461 all processes and notifying all logged-in users</para>
462 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd shutdown">
463 <primary sortas="b-shutdown">shutdown</primary>
464 </indexterm>
465 </listitem>
466 </varlistentry>
467
468 <varlistentry id="systemctl">
469 <term><command>systemctl</command></term>
470 <listitem>
471 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd system
472 and service manager</para>
473 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemctl">
474 <primary sortas="b-systemctl">systemctl</primary>
475 </indexterm>
476 </listitem>
477 </varlistentry>
478
479 <varlistentry id="systemd-analyze">
480 <term><command>systemd-analyze</command></term>
481 <listitem>
482 <para>Is used to determine system startup performance of the current
483 boot, as well as identify troublesome systemd units</para>
484 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-analyze">
485 <primary sortas="b-systemd-analyze">systemd-analyze</primary>
486 </indexterm>
487 </listitem>
488 </varlistentry>
489
490 <varlistentry id="systemd-ask-password">
491 <term><command>systemd-ask-password</command></term>
492 <listitem>
493 <para>Is used to query a system password or passphrase from the user,
494 using a question message specified on the command line</para>
495 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-ask-password">
496 <primary sortas="b-systemd-ask-password">systemd-ask-password</primary>
497 </indexterm>
498 </listitem>
499 </varlistentry>
500
501 <varlistentry id="systemd-cat">
502 <term><command>systemd-cat</command></term>
503 <listitem>
504 <para>Is used to connect the STDOUT and STDERR outputs of a process
505 with the systemd journal
506 </para>
507 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cat">
508 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cat">systemd-cat</primary>
509 </indexterm>
510 </listitem>
511 </varlistentry>
512
513 <varlistentry id="systemd-cgls">
514 <term><command>systemd-cgls</command></term>
515 <listitem>
516 <para>Recursively shows the contents of the selected Linux control
517 group hierarchy in a tree</para>
518 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cgls">
519 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cgls">systemd-cgls</primary>
520 </indexterm>
521 </listitem>
522 </varlistentry>
523
524 <varlistentry id="systemd-cgtop">
525 <term><command>systemd-cgtop</command></term>
526 <listitem>
527 <para>Shows the top control groups of the local Linux control group
528 hierarchy, ordered by their CPU, memory and disk I/O load</para>
529 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cgtop">
530 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cgtop">systemd-cgtop</primary>
531 </indexterm>
532 </listitem>
533 </varlistentry>
534
535 <varlistentry id="systemd-creds">
536 <term><command>systemd-creds</command></term>
537 <listitem>
538 <para>Displays and processes credentials</para>
539 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-creds">
540 <primary sortas="b-systemd-creds">systemd-creds</primary>
541 </indexterm>
542 </listitem>
543 </varlistentry>
544
545 <varlistentry id="systemd-delta">
546 <term><command>systemd-delta</command></term>
547 <listitem>
548 <para>Is used to identify and compare configuration files in
549 <filename class="directory">/etc</filename> that override default
550 counterparts in <filename class="directory">/usr</filename></para>
551 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-delta">
552 <primary sortas="b-systemd-delta">systemd-delta</primary>
553 </indexterm>
554 </listitem>
555 </varlistentry>
556
557 <varlistentry id="systemd-detect-virt">
558 <term><command>systemd-detect-virt</command></term>
559 <listitem>
560 <para>Detects whether the system is being run in a virtual
561 environment, and adjusts udev accordingly</para>
562 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-detect-virt">
563 <primary sortas="b-systemd-detect-virt">systemd-detect-virt</primary>
564 </indexterm>
565 </listitem>
566 </varlistentry>
567
568 <varlistentry id="systemd-dissect">
569 <term><command>systemd-dissect</command></term>
570 <listitem>
571 <para>Is used to inspect OS disk images</para>
572 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-dissect">
573 <primary sortas="b-systemd-dissect">systemd-dissect</primary>
574 </indexterm>
575 </listitem>
576 </varlistentry>
577
578 <varlistentry id="systemd-escape">
579 <term><command>systemd-escape</command></term>
580 <listitem>
581 <para>Is used to escape strings for inclusion in systemd unit
582 names</para>
583 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-escape">
584 <primary sortas="b-systemd-escape">systemd-escape</primary>
585 </indexterm>
586 </listitem>
587 </varlistentry>
588
589 <varlistentry id="systemd-hwdb">
590 <term><command>systemd-hwdb</command></term>
591 <listitem>
592 <para>Is used to manage the hardware database (hwdb)</para>
593 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-hwdb">
594 <primary sortas="b-systemd-hwdb">systemd-hwdb</primary>
595 </indexterm>
596 </listitem>
597 </varlistentry>
598
599 <varlistentry id="systemd-id128">
600 <term><command>systemd-id128</command></term>
601 <listitem>
602 <para>Generates and prints id128 strings</para>
603 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-id128">
604 <primary sortas="b-systemd-id128">systemd-id128</primary>
605 </indexterm>
606 </listitem>
607 </varlistentry>
608
609 <varlistentry id="systemd-inhibit">
610 <term><command>systemd-inhibit</command></term>
611 <listitem>
612 <para>Is used to execute a program with a shutdown, sleep or idle
613 inhibitor lock taken, preventing an action such as a system shutdown
614 until the process is completed</para>
615 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-inhibit">
616 <primary sortas="b-systemd-inhibit">systemd-inhibit</primary>
617 </indexterm>
618 </listitem>
619 </varlistentry>
620
621 <varlistentry id="systemd-machine-id-setup">
622 <term><command>systemd-machine-id-setup</command></term>
623 <listitem>
624 <para>Is used by system installer tools to initialize the machine ID
625 stored in <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> at install time with a
626 randomly generated ID</para>
627 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-machine-id-setup">
628 <primary sortas="b-systemd-machine-id-setup">systemd-machine-id-setup</primary>
629 </indexterm>
630 </listitem>
631 </varlistentry>
632
633 <varlistentry id="systemd-mount">
634 <term><command>systemd-mount</command></term>
635 <listitem>
636 <para>Is used to temporarily mount or automount disks</para>
637 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-mount">
638 <primary sortas="b-systemd-mount">systemd-mount</primary>
639 </indexterm>
640 </listitem>
641 </varlistentry>
642
643 <varlistentry id="systemd-notify">
644 <term><command>systemd-notify</command></term>
645 <listitem>
646 <para>Is used by daemon scripts to notify the init system about status
647 changes</para>
648 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-notify">
649 <primary sortas="b-systemd-notify">systemd-notify</primary>
650 </indexterm>
651 </listitem>
652 </varlistentry>
653
654 <varlistentry id="systemd-nspawn">
655 <term><command>systemd-nspawn</command></term>
656 <listitem>
657 <para>Is used to run a command or OS in a light-weight namespace
658 container</para>
659 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-nspawn">
660 <primary sortas="b-systemd-nspawn">systemd-nspawn</primary>
661 </indexterm>
662 </listitem>
663 </varlistentry>
664
665 <varlistentry id="systemd-path">
666 <term><command>systemd-path</command></term>
667 <listitem>
668 <para>Is used to query system and user paths</para>
669 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-path">
670 <primary sortas="b-systemd-path">systemd-path</primary>
671 </indexterm>
672 </listitem>
673 </varlistentry>
674
675 <varlistentry id="systemd-repart">
676 <term><command>systemd-repart</command></term>
677 <listitem>
678 <para>Is used to grow and add partitions to a partition table when
679 systemd is used in an OS image (e.g. a container)</para>
680 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-repart">
681 <primary sortas="b-systemd-repart">systemd-repart</primary>
682 </indexterm>
683 </listitem>
684 </varlistentry>
685
686 <varlistentry id="systemd-resolve">
687 <term><command>systemd-resolve</command></term>
688 <listitem>
689 <para>Is used to resolve domain names, IPV4 and IPv6 addresses, DNS
690 resource records, and services</para>
691 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-resolve">
692 <primary sortas="b-systemd-resolve">systemd-resolve</primary>
693 </indexterm>
694 </listitem>
695 </varlistentry>
696
697 <varlistentry id="systemd-run">
698 <term><command>systemd-run</command></term>
699 <listitem>
700 <para>Is used to create and start a transient .service or a .scope
701 unit and run the specified command in it. This is useful for
702 validating systemd units</para>
703 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-run">
704 <primary sortas="b-systemd-run">systemd-run</primary>
705 </indexterm>
706 </listitem>
707 </varlistentry>
708
709 <varlistentry id="systemd-socket-activate">
710 <term><command>systemd-socket-activate</command></term>
711 <listitem>
712 <para>Is used to listen on socket devices and launch a process upon
713 a successful connection to the socket</para>
714 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-socket-activate">
715 <primary sortas="b-systemd-socket-activate">systemd-socket-activate</primary>
716 </indexterm>
717 </listitem>
718 </varlistentry>
719
720 <varlistentry id="systemd-sysext">
721 <term><command>systemd-sysext</command></term>
722 <listitem>
723 <para>Activates system extension images</para>
724 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-sysext">
725 <primary sortas="b-systemd-sysext">systemd-sysext</primary>
726 </indexterm>
727 </listitem>
728 </varlistentry>
729
730 <varlistentry id="systemd-tmpfiles">
731 <term><command>systemd-tmpfiles</command></term>
732 <listitem>
733 <para>Creates, deletes and cleans up volatile and temporary files and
734 directories, based on the configuration file format and location
735 specified in
736 <filename class="directory">tmpfiles.d</filename> directories</para>
737 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-tmpfiles">
738 <primary sortas="b-systemd-tmpfiles">systemd-tmpfiles</primary>
739 </indexterm>
740 </listitem>
741 </varlistentry>
742
743 <varlistentry id="systemd-umount">
744 <term><command>systemd-umount</command></term>
745 <listitem>
746 <para>Unmounts mount points</para>
747 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-umount">
748 <primary sortas="b-systemd-umount">systemd-umount</primary>
749 </indexterm>
750 </listitem>
751 </varlistentry>
752
753 <varlistentry id="systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">
754 <term><command>systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</command></term>
755 <listitem>
756 <para>Is used to list and/or process pending systemd password
757 requests</para>
758 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">
759 <primary sortas="b-systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</primary>
760 </indexterm>
761 </listitem>
762 </varlistentry>
763
764 <varlistentry id="telinit">
765 <term><command>telinit</command></term>
766 <listitem>
767 <para>Tells <command>init</command> which run-level to change
768 to</para>
769 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd telinit">
770 <primary sortas="b-telinit">telinit</primary>
771 </indexterm>
772 </listitem>
773 </varlistentry>
774
775 <varlistentry id="timedatectl">
776 <term><command>timedatectl</command></term>
777 <listitem>
778 <para>Is used to query and change the system clock and its settings
779 </para>
780 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd timedatectl">
781 <primary sortas="b-timedatectl">timedatectl</primary>
782 </indexterm>
783 </listitem>
784 </varlistentry>
785
786 <varlistentry id="udevadm">
787 <term><command>udevadm</command></term>
788 <listitem>
789 <para>Is a generic udev administration tool which controls the udevd
790 daemon, provides info from the Udev hardware database, monitors
791 uevents, waits for uevents to finish, tests udev configuration, and
792 triggers uevents for a given device</para>
793 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd udevadm">
794 <primary sortas="b-udevadm">udevadm</primary>
795 </indexterm>
796 </listitem>
797 </varlistentry>
798
799 <varlistentry id="libsystemd">
800 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsystemd</filename></term>
801 <listitem>
802 <para>Is the main systemd utility library</para>
803 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd libsystemd">
804 <primary sortas="c-libsystemd">libsystemd</primary>
805 </indexterm>
806 </listitem>
807 </varlistentry>
808
809 <varlistentry id="libudev">
810 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libudev</filename></term>
811 <listitem>
812 <para>Is a library to access Udev device information</para>
813 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd libudev">
814 <primary sortas="c-libudev">libudev</primary>
815 </indexterm>
816 </listitem>
817 </varlistentry>
818
819 </variablelist>
820
821 </sect2>
822
823</sect1>
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