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Last change on this file since 8630ec3 was 1e7341fd, checked in by Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>, 4 months ago

systemd: Enable test suite (again)

With systemd-255, I get only 1 failure out of 1206. Thus it seems a
good idea to run the test suite.

We can always revert if something bad happens.

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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>Some tests need a basic <filename>/etc/os-release</filename> file.
230 To test the results, issue:</para>
231
232<screen><userinput remap="test">echo 'NAME="Linux From Scratch"' &gt; /etc/os-release
233ninja test</userinput></screen>
234
235 <!-- This test needs /run/systemd/inaccessible/sock, which only exists
236 after initializing the system with systemd. -->
237 <para>One test named <literal>systemd:core / test-namespace</literal>
238 is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment. Some other tests may
239 fail because they depend on various kernel configuration options.</para>
240
241 <para>Install the package:</para>
242
243<screen><userinput remap="install">ninja install</userinput></screen>
244
245 <para>Install the man pages:</para>
246
247 <!-- Please make sure systemd man pages tarball has a common leading
248 component in the path. -->
249<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xf ../../systemd-man-pages-&systemd-version;.tar.xz \
250 --no-same-owner --strip-components=1 \
251 -C /usr/share/man</userinput></screen>
252
253 <para>Create the <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> file needed by
254 <command>systemd-journald</command>:</para>
255
256<screen><userinput remap="adjust">systemd-machine-id-setup</userinput></screen>
257
258 <para>Set up the basic target structure:</para>
259
260<screen><userinput remap="adjust">systemctl preset-all</userinput></screen>
261
262<!-- dev: 50-pid-max.conf is not removed in BLFS, so I commented the following out.
263 If it causes any trouble, we can add this back and also copy it into BLFS -->
264<!--
265 <para>Prevent systemd from resetting the maximum PID value which causes
266 some problems with packages and units in BLFS:</para>
267
268<screen><userinput remap="adjust">rm -f /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-pid-max.conf</userinput></screen>
269-->
270
271 </sect2>
272
273 <sect2 id="contents-systemd" role="content">
274 <title>Contents of systemd</title>
275
276 <segmentedlist>
277 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
278 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
279 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
280
281 <seglistitem>
282 <seg>busctl, coredumpctl, halt (symlink to systemctl),
283 hostnamectl, init, journalctl, kernel-install, localectl, loginctl,
284 machinectl, mount.ddi (symlink to systemd-dissect), networkctl,
285 oomctl, portablectl, poweroff (symlink to
286 systemctl), reboot (symlink to systemctl), resolvconf (symlink to
287 resolvectl), resolvectl, runlevel (symlink to systemctl), shutdown
288 (symlink to systemctl), systemctl, systemd-ac-power, systemd-analyze,
289 systemd-ask-password, systemd-cat, systemd-cgls, systemd-cgtop,
290 systemd-confext (symlink to systemd-sysext), systemd-creds,
291 systemd-delta, systemd-detect-virt,
292 systemd-dissect, systemd-escape, systemd-hwdb, systemd-id128,
293 systemd-inhibit, systemd-machine-id-setup,
294 systemd-mount, systemd-notify, systemd-nspawn, systemd-path,
295 systemd-repart, systemd-resolve (symlink to resolvectl), systemd-run,
296 systemd-socket-activate, systemd-stdio-bridge, systemd-sysext,
297 systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-tty-ask-password-agent,
298 systemd-umount (symlink to systemd-mount),
299 telinit (symlink to systemctl), timedatectl, and udevadm</seg>
300 <seg>libnss_myhostname.so.2, libnss_mymachines.so.2,
301 libnss_resolve.so.2, libnss_systemd.so.2,
302 libsystemd.so, libsystemd-shared-&systemd-version;.so (in /usr/lib/systemd),
303 and libudev.so</seg>
304 <seg>/etc/binfmt.d, /etc/init.d, /etc/kernel, /etc/modules-load.d,
305 /etc/sysctl.d, /etc/systemd, /etc/tmpfiles.d, /etc/udev,
306 /etc/xdg/systemd, /usr/lib/systemd, /usr/lib/udev, /usr/include/systemd,
307 /usr/lib/binfmt.d, /usr/lib/environment.d, /usr/lib/kernel,
308 /usr/lib/modules-load.d, /usr/lib/sysctl.d, /usr/lib/systemd,
309 /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d,
310 /usr/share/doc/systemd-&systemd-version;, /usr/share/factory,
311 /usr/share/systemd, /var/lib/systemd, and /var/log/journal</seg>
312 </seglistitem>
313 </segmentedlist>
314
315 <variablelist>
316 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
317 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
318 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
319
320 <varlistentry id="busctl">
321 <term><command>busctl</command></term>
322 <listitem>
323 <para>Is used to introspect and monitor the D-Bus bus</para>
324 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd busctl">
325 <primary sortas="b-busctl">busctl</primary>
326 </indexterm>
327 </listitem>
328 </varlistentry>
329
330 <varlistentry id="coredumpctl">
331 <term><command>coredumpctl</command></term>
332 <listitem>
333 <para>Is used to retrieve coredumps from the systemd journal</para>
334 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd coredumpctl">
335 <primary sortas="b-coredumpctl">coredumpctl</primary>
336 </indexterm>
337 </listitem>
338 </varlistentry>
339
340 <varlistentry id="halt">
341 <term><command>halt</command></term>
342 <listitem>
343 <para>Normally invokes <command>shutdown</command> with the
344 <parameter>-h</parameter> option, except when already in run-level 0,
345 when it tells the kernel to halt the system; it notes in the
346 file <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename> that the system is being
347 brought down</para>
348 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd halt">
349 <primary sortas="b-halt">halt</primary>
350 </indexterm>
351 </listitem>
352 </varlistentry>
353
354 <varlistentry id="hostnamectl">
355 <term><command>hostnamectl</command></term>
356 <listitem>
357 <para>Is used to query and change the system hostname and related
358 settings</para>
359 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd hostnamectl">
360 <primary sortas="b-hostnamectl">hostnamectl</primary>
361 </indexterm>
362 </listitem>
363 </varlistentry>
364
365 <varlistentry id="init">
366 <term><command>init</command></term>
367 <listitem>
368 <para>Is the first process to be started after the kernel has initialized
369 the hardware; <command>init</command> takes over the boot process and starts the
370 processes specified by its configuration files; in this case, it starts
371 systemd</para>
372 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd init">
373 <primary sortas="b-init">init</primary>
374 </indexterm>
375 </listitem>
376 </varlistentry>
377
378 <varlistentry id="journalctl">
379 <term><command>journalctl</command></term>
380 <listitem>
381 <para>Is used to query the contents of the systemd journal</para>
382 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd journalctl">
383 <primary sortas="b-journalctl">journalctl</primary>
384 </indexterm>
385 </listitem>
386 </varlistentry>
387
388 <varlistentry id="kernel-install">
389 <term><command>kernel-install</command></term>
390 <listitem>
391 <para>Is used to add and remove kernel and initramfs images to and
392 from /boot; in LFS, this is done manually</para>
393 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd kernel-install">
394 <primary sortas="b-kernel-install">kernel-install</primary>
395 </indexterm>
396 </listitem>
397 </varlistentry>
398
399 <varlistentry id="localectl">
400 <term><command>localectl</command></term>
401 <listitem>
402 <para>Is used to query and change the system locale and keyboard layout
403 settings</para>
404 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd localectl">
405 <primary sortas="b-localectl">localectl</primary>
406 </indexterm>
407 </listitem>
408 </varlistentry>
409
410 <varlistentry id="loginctl">
411 <term><command>loginctl</command></term>
412 <listitem>
413 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd Login
414 Manager</para>
415 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd loginctl">
416 <primary sortas="b-loginctl">loginctl</primary>
417 </indexterm>
418 </listitem>
419 </varlistentry>
420
421 <varlistentry id="machinectl">
422 <term><command>machinectl</command></term>
423 <listitem>
424 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd Virtual
425 Machine and Container Registration Manager</para>
426 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd machinectl">
427 <primary sortas="b-machinectl">machinectl</primary>
428 </indexterm>
429 </listitem>
430 </varlistentry>
431
432 <varlistentry id="networkctl">
433 <term><command>networkctl</command></term>
434 <listitem>
435 <para>Is used to introspect and configure the state of the network
436 links configured by systemd-networkd</para>
437 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd networkctl">
438 <primary sortas="b-networkctl">networkctl</primary>
439 </indexterm>
440 </listitem>
441 </varlistentry>
442
443 <varlistentry id="oomctl">
444 <term><command>oomctl</command></term>
445 <listitem>
446 <para>Controls the systemd Out Of Memory daemon</para>
447 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd oomctl">
448 <primary sortas="b-oomctl">oomctl</primary>
449 </indexterm>
450 </listitem>
451 </varlistentry>
452
453 <varlistentry id="portablectl">
454 <term><command>portablectl</command></term>
455 <listitem>
456 <para>Is used to attach or detach portable services from the local
457 system</para>
458 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd portablectl">
459 <primary sortas="b-portablectl">portablectl</primary>
460 </indexterm>
461 </listitem>
462 </varlistentry>
463
464 <varlistentry id="poweroff">
465 <term><command>poweroff</command></term>
466 <listitem>
467 <para>Instructs the kernel to halt the system and switch off the computer
468 (see <command>halt</command>)</para>
469 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd poweroff">
470 <primary sortas="b-poweroff">poweroff</primary>
471 </indexterm>
472 </listitem>
473 </varlistentry>
474
475 <varlistentry id="reboot">
476 <term><command>reboot</command></term>
477 <listitem>
478 <para>Instructs the kernel to reboot the system (see
479 <command>halt</command>)</para>
480 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd reboot">
481 <primary sortas="b-reboot">reboot</primary>
482 </indexterm>
483 </listitem>
484 </varlistentry>
485
486 <varlistentry id="resolvconf">
487 <term><command>resolvconf</command></term>
488 <listitem>
489 <para>Registers DNS server and domain configuration with
490 <command>systemd-resolved</command></para>
491 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd resolvconf">
492 <primary sortas="b-resolvconf">resolvconf</primary>
493 </indexterm>
494 </listitem>
495 </varlistentry>
496
497 <varlistentry id="resolvectl">
498 <term><command>resolvectl</command></term>
499 <listitem>
500 <para>Sends control commands to the network name resolution
501 manager, or resolves domain names, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses,
502 DNS records, and services</para>
503 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd resolvectl">
504 <primary sortas="b-resolvectl">resolvectl</primary>
505 </indexterm>
506 </listitem>
507 </varlistentry>
508
509 <varlistentry id="runlevel">
510 <term><command>runlevel</command></term>
511 <listitem>
512 <para>Outputs the previous and the current run-level, as noted in the
513 last run-level record in <filename>/run/utmp</filename></para>
514 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd runlevel">
515 <primary sortas="b-runlevel">runlevel</primary>
516 </indexterm>
517 </listitem>
518 </varlistentry>
519
520 <varlistentry id="shutdown">
521 <term><command>shutdown</command></term>
522 <listitem>
523 <para>Brings the system down in a safe and secure manner, signaling
524 all processes and notifying all logged-in users</para>
525 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd shutdown">
526 <primary sortas="b-shutdown">shutdown</primary>
527 </indexterm>
528 </listitem>
529 </varlistentry>
530
531 <varlistentry id="systemctl">
532 <term><command>systemctl</command></term>
533 <listitem>
534 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd system
535 and service manager</para>
536 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemctl">
537 <primary sortas="b-systemctl">systemctl</primary>
538 </indexterm>
539 </listitem>
540 </varlistentry>
541
542 <varlistentry id="systemd-ac-power">
543 <term><command>systemd-ac-power</command></term>
544 <listitem>
545 <para>Reports whether the system is connected to an external
546 power source.</para>
547 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-ac-power">
548 <primary sortas="b-systemd-ac-power">systemd-ac-power</primary>
549 </indexterm>
550 </listitem>
551 </varlistentry>
552
553 <varlistentry id="systemd-analyze">
554 <term><command>systemd-analyze</command></term>
555 <listitem>
556 <para>Is used to analyze system startup performance,
557 as well as identify troublesome systemd units</para>
558 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-analyze">
559 <primary sortas="b-systemd-analyze">systemd-analyze</primary>
560 </indexterm>
561 </listitem>
562 </varlistentry>
563
564 <varlistentry id="systemd-ask-password">
565 <term><command>systemd-ask-password</command></term>
566 <listitem>
567 <para>Is used to query a system password or passphrase from the user,
568 using a message specified on the Linux command line</para>
569 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-ask-password">
570 <primary sortas="b-systemd-ask-password">systemd-ask-password</primary>
571 </indexterm>
572 </listitem>
573 </varlistentry>
574
575 <varlistentry id="systemd-cat">
576 <term><command>systemd-cat</command></term>
577 <listitem>
578 <para>Is used to connect the STDOUT and STDERR outputs of a process
579 with the systemd journal
580 </para>
581 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cat">
582 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cat">systemd-cat</primary>
583 </indexterm>
584 </listitem>
585 </varlistentry>
586
587 <varlistentry id="systemd-cgls">
588 <term><command>systemd-cgls</command></term>
589 <listitem>
590 <para>Recursively shows the contents of the selected Linux control
591 group hierarchy in a tree</para>
592 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cgls">
593 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cgls">systemd-cgls</primary>
594 </indexterm>
595 </listitem>
596 </varlistentry>
597
598 <varlistentry id="systemd-cgtop">
599 <term><command>systemd-cgtop</command></term>
600 <listitem>
601 <para>Shows the top control groups of the local Linux control group
602 hierarchy, ordered by their CPU, memory and disk I/O loads</para>
603 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cgtop">
604 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cgtop">systemd-cgtop</primary>
605 </indexterm>
606 </listitem>
607 </varlistentry>
608
609 <varlistentry id="systemd-creds">
610 <term><command>systemd-creds</command></term>
611 <listitem>
612 <para>Displays and processes credentials</para>
613 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-creds">
614 <primary sortas="b-systemd-creds">systemd-creds</primary>
615 </indexterm>
616 </listitem>
617 </varlistentry>
618
619 <varlistentry id="systemd-delta">
620 <term><command>systemd-delta</command></term>
621 <listitem>
622 <para>Is used to identify and compare configuration files in
623 <filename class="directory">/etc</filename> that override the defaults
624 in <filename class="directory">/usr</filename></para>
625 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-delta">
626 <primary sortas="b-systemd-delta">systemd-delta</primary>
627 </indexterm>
628 </listitem>
629 </varlistentry>
630
631 <varlistentry id="systemd-detect-virt">
632 <term><command>systemd-detect-virt</command></term>
633 <listitem>
634 <para>Detects whether the system is being run in a virtual
635 environment, and adjusts udev accordingly</para>
636 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-detect-virt">
637 <primary sortas="b-systemd-detect-virt">systemd-detect-virt</primary>
638 </indexterm>
639 </listitem>
640 </varlistentry>
641
642 <varlistentry id="systemd-dissect">
643 <term><command>systemd-dissect</command></term>
644 <listitem>
645 <para>Is used to inspect OS disk images</para>
646 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-dissect">
647 <primary sortas="b-systemd-dissect">systemd-dissect</primary>
648 </indexterm>
649 </listitem>
650 </varlistentry>
651
652 <varlistentry id="systemd-escape">
653 <term><command>systemd-escape</command></term>
654 <listitem>
655 <para>Is used to escape strings for inclusion in systemd unit
656 names</para>
657 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-escape">
658 <primary sortas="b-systemd-escape">systemd-escape</primary>
659 </indexterm>
660 </listitem>
661 </varlistentry>
662
663 <varlistentry id="systemd-hwdb">
664 <term><command>systemd-hwdb</command></term>
665 <listitem>
666 <para>Is used to manage the hardware database (hwdb)</para>
667 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-hwdb">
668 <primary sortas="b-systemd-hwdb">systemd-hwdb</primary>
669 </indexterm>
670 </listitem>
671 </varlistentry>
672
673 <varlistentry id="systemd-id128">
674 <term><command>systemd-id128</command></term>
675 <listitem>
676 <para>Generates and prints id128 (UUID) strings</para>
677 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-id128">
678 <primary sortas="b-systemd-id128">systemd-id128</primary>
679 </indexterm>
680 </listitem>
681 </varlistentry>
682
683 <varlistentry id="systemd-inhibit">
684 <term><command>systemd-inhibit</command></term>
685 <listitem>
686 <para>Is used to execute a program with a shutdown, sleep or idle
687 inhibitor lock taken, preventing an action such as a system shutdown
688 until the process is completed</para>
689 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-inhibit">
690 <primary sortas="b-systemd-inhibit">systemd-inhibit</primary>
691 </indexterm>
692 </listitem>
693 </varlistentry>
694
695 <varlistentry id="systemd-machine-id-setup">
696 <term><command>systemd-machine-id-setup</command></term>
697 <listitem>
698 <para>Is used by system installer tools to initialize the machine ID
699 stored in <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> at install time with a
700 randomly generated ID</para>
701 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-machine-id-setup">
702 <primary sortas="b-systemd-machine-id-setup">systemd-machine-id-setup</primary>
703 </indexterm>
704 </listitem>
705 </varlistentry>
706
707 <varlistentry id="systemd-mount">
708 <term><command>systemd-mount</command></term>
709 <listitem>
710 <para>Is used to temporarily mount or automount disks</para>
711 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-mount">
712 <primary sortas="b-systemd-mount">systemd-mount</primary>
713 </indexterm>
714 </listitem>
715 </varlistentry>
716
717 <varlistentry id="systemd-notify">
718 <term><command>systemd-notify</command></term>
719 <listitem>
720 <para>Is used by daemon scripts to notify the init system of status
721 changes</para>
722 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-notify">
723 <primary sortas="b-systemd-notify">systemd-notify</primary>
724 </indexterm>
725 </listitem>
726 </varlistentry>
727
728 <varlistentry id="systemd-nspawn">
729 <term><command>systemd-nspawn</command></term>
730 <listitem>
731 <para>Is used to run a command, or an entire OS, in a light-weight namespace
732 container</para>
733 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-nspawn">
734 <primary sortas="b-systemd-nspawn">systemd-nspawn</primary>
735 </indexterm>
736 </listitem>
737 </varlistentry>
738
739 <varlistentry id="systemd-path">
740 <term><command>systemd-path</command></term>
741 <listitem>
742 <para>Is used to query system and user paths</para>
743 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-path">
744 <primary sortas="b-systemd-path">systemd-path</primary>
745 </indexterm>
746 </listitem>
747 </varlistentry>
748
749 <varlistentry id="systemd-repart">
750 <term><command>systemd-repart</command></term>
751 <listitem>
752 <para>Is used to grow and add partitions to a partition table when
753 systemd is used with an OS image (e.g. a container)</para>
754 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-repart">
755 <primary sortas="b-systemd-repart">systemd-repart</primary>
756 </indexterm>
757 </listitem>
758 </varlistentry>
759
760 <varlistentry id="systemd-resolve">
761 <term><command>systemd-resolve</command></term>
762 <listitem>
763 <para>Is used to resolve domain names, IPV4 and IPv6 addresses, DNS
764 resource records, and services</para>
765 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-resolve">
766 <primary sortas="b-systemd-resolve">systemd-resolve</primary>
767 </indexterm>
768 </listitem>
769 </varlistentry>
770
771 <varlistentry id="systemd-run">
772 <term><command>systemd-run</command></term>
773 <listitem>
774 <para>Is used to create and start a transient .service or a .scope
775 unit and run the specified command in it; this is useful for
776 validating systemd units</para>
777 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-run">
778 <primary sortas="b-systemd-run">systemd-run</primary>
779 </indexterm>
780 </listitem>
781 </varlistentry>
782
783 <varlistentry id="systemd-socket-activate">
784 <term><command>systemd-socket-activate</command></term>
785 <listitem>
786 <para>Is used to listen on socket devices and launch a process upon
787 a successful connection to the socket</para>
788 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-socket-activate">
789 <primary sortas="b-systemd-socket-activate">systemd-socket-activate</primary>
790 </indexterm>
791 </listitem>
792 </varlistentry>
793
794 <varlistentry id="systemd-sysext">
795 <term><command>systemd-sysext</command></term>
796 <listitem>
797 <para>Activates system extension images</para>
798 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-sysext">
799 <primary sortas="b-systemd-sysext">systemd-sysext</primary>
800 </indexterm>
801 </listitem>
802 </varlistentry>
803
804 <varlistentry id="systemd-tmpfiles">
805 <term><command>systemd-tmpfiles</command></term>
806 <listitem>
807 <para>Creates, deletes, and cleans up volatile and temporary files and
808 directories, based on the configuration file format and location
809 specified in
810 <filename class="directory">tmpfiles.d</filename> directories</para>
811 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-tmpfiles">
812 <primary sortas="b-systemd-tmpfiles">systemd-tmpfiles</primary>
813 </indexterm>
814 </listitem>
815 </varlistentry>
816
817 <varlistentry id="systemd-umount">
818 <term><command>systemd-umount</command></term>
819 <listitem>
820 <para>Unmounts mount points</para>
821 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-umount">
822 <primary sortas="b-systemd-umount">systemd-umount</primary>
823 </indexterm>
824 </listitem>
825 </varlistentry>
826
827 <varlistentry id="systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">
828 <term><command>systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</command></term>
829 <listitem>
830 <para>Is used to list and/or process pending systemd password
831 requests</para>
832 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">
833 <primary sortas="b-systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</primary>
834 </indexterm>
835 </listitem>
836 </varlistentry>
837
838 <varlistentry id="telinit">
839 <term><command>telinit</command></term>
840 <listitem>
841 <para>Tells <command>init</command> which run-level to change
842 to</para>
843 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd telinit">
844 <primary sortas="b-telinit">telinit</primary>
845 </indexterm>
846 </listitem>
847 </varlistentry>
848
849 <varlistentry id="timedatectl">
850 <term><command>timedatectl</command></term>
851 <listitem>
852 <para>Is used to query and change the system clock and its settings
853 </para>
854 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd timedatectl">
855 <primary sortas="b-timedatectl">timedatectl</primary>
856 </indexterm>
857 </listitem>
858 </varlistentry>
859
860 <varlistentry id="udevadm">
861 <term><command>udevadm</command></term>
862 <listitem>
863 <para>Is a generic udev administration tool which controls the udevd
864 daemon, provides info from the udev hardware database, monitors
865 uevents, waits for uevents to finish, tests udev configuration, and
866 triggers uevents for a given device</para>
867 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd udevadm">
868 <primary sortas="b-udevadm">udevadm</primary>
869 </indexterm>
870 </listitem>
871 </varlistentry>
872
873 <varlistentry id="libsystemd">
874 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsystemd</filename></term>
875 <listitem>
876 <para>Is the main systemd utility library</para>
877 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd libsystemd">
878 <primary sortas="c-libsystemd">libsystemd</primary>
879 </indexterm>
880 </listitem>
881 </varlistentry>
882
883 <varlistentry id="libudev">
884 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libudev</filename></term>
885 <listitem>
886 <para>Is a library to access Udev device information</para>
887 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd libudev">
888 <primary sortas="c-libudev">libudev</primary>
889 </indexterm>
890 </listitem>
891 </varlistentry>
892
893 </variablelist>
894
895 </sect2>
896
897</sect1>
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