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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 <para>Prepare systemd for compilation:</para>
52
53<screen><userinput remap="configure">mkdir -p build
54cd build
55
56meson setup .. \
57 --prefix=/usr \
58 --buildtype=release \
59 -D default-dnssec=no \
60 -D firstboot=false \
61 -D install-tests=false \
62 -D ldconfig=false \
63 -D sysusers=false \
64 -D rpmmacrosdir=no \
65 -D homed=disabled \
66 -D userdb=false \
67 -D man=disabled \
68 -D mode=release \
69 -D pamconfdir=no \
70 -D dev-kvm-mode=0660 \
71 -D nobody-group=nogroup \
72 -D sysupdate=disabled \
73 -D ukify=disabled \
74 -D docdir=/usr/share/doc/systemd-&systemd-version;</userinput></screen>
75
76 <variablelist>
77 <title>The meaning of the meson options:</title>
78
79 <varlistentry>
80 <term><parameter>--buildtype=release</parameter></term>
81 <listitem>
82 <para>This switch overrides the default buildtype
83 (<quote>debug</quote>), which produces unoptimized
84 binaries.</para>
85 </listitem>
86 </varlistentry>
87
88 <varlistentry>
89 <term><parameter>-D default-dnssec=no</parameter></term>
90 <listitem>
91 <para>This switch turns off the experimental DNSSEC support.</para>
92 </listitem>
93 </varlistentry>
94
95 <varlistentry>
96 <term><parameter>-D firstboot=false</parameter></term>
97 <listitem>
98 <para>This switch prevents installation of systemd
99 services responsible for setting up the system for
100 the first time. These are not useful in LFS, because
101 everything is done manually.</para>
102 </listitem>
103 </varlistentry>
104
105 <varlistentry>
106 <term><parameter>-D install-tests=false</parameter></term>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>This switch prevents installation of the compiled tests.</para>
109 </listitem>
110 </varlistentry>
111
112 <varlistentry>
113 <term><parameter>-D ldconfig=false</parameter></term>
114 <listitem>
115 <para>This switch prevents installation of a systemd unit that runs
116 <command>ldconfig</command> at boot; this is not useful for source
117 distributions such as LFS, and makes the boot time longer. Remove
118 this option to enable running <command>ldconfig</command> at boot.</para>
119 </listitem>
120 </varlistentry>
121
122 <varlistentry>
123 <term><parameter>-D sysusers=false</parameter></term>
124 <listitem>
125 <para>This switch prevents installation of systemd
126 services responsible for setting up the
127 <filename>/etc/group</filename> and
128 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> files. Both files
129 were created in the previous chapter. This daemon is not useful
130 on an LFS system since user accounts are manually created.</para>
131 </listitem>
132 </varlistentry>
133
134 <varlistentry>
135 <term><parameter>-D rpmmacrosdir=no</parameter></term>
136 <listitem>
137 <para>This switch disables installation of RPM Macros
138 for use with systemd, because LFS does not support RPM.</para>
139 </listitem>
140 </varlistentry>
141
142 <varlistentry>
143 <term><parameter>-D homed=disabled</parameter> and
144 <parameter>-D userdb=false</parameter></term>
145 <listitem>
146 <para>Remove two daemons with dependencies that do not fit
147 within the scope of LFS.</para>
148 </listitem>
149 </varlistentry>
150
151 <varlistentry>
152 <term><parameter>-D man=disabled</parameter></term>
153 <listitem>
154 <para>Prevent the generation of man pages to avoid extra
155 dependencies. We will install pre-generated man pages for systemd
156 from a tarball.</para>
157 </listitem>
158 </varlistentry>
159
160 <varlistentry>
161 <term><parameter>-D mode=release</parameter></term>
162 <listitem>
163 <para>Disable some features considered experimental by upstream.
164 </para>
165 </listitem>
166 </varlistentry>
167
168 <varlistentry>
169 <term><parameter>-D pamconfdir=no</parameter></term>
170 <listitem>
171 <para>Prevent the installation of a PAM configuration file not
172 functional on LFS.</para>
173 </listitem>
174 </varlistentry>
175
176 <varlistentry>
177 <term><parameter>-D dev-kvm-mode=0660</parameter></term>
178 <listitem>
179 <para>The default udev rule would allow all users to access
180 <filename class='devicefile'>/dev/kvm</filename>. The editors
181 consider it dangerous. This option overrides it.</para>
182 </listitem>
183 </varlistentry>
184
185 <varlistentry>
186 <term><parameter>-D nobody-group=nogroup</parameter></term>
187 <listitem>
188 <para>Tell the package the group name with GID 65534 is
189 <systemitem class='groupname'>nogroup</systemitem>.</para>
190 </listitem>
191 </varlistentry>
192
193 <varlistentry>
194 <term><parameter>-D sysupdate=disabled</parameter></term>
195 <listitem>
196 <para>Do not install the <command>systemd-sysupdate</command>
197 tool. It's designed for automatically upgrading binary distros,
198 so it's useless for a basic Linux system built from source.
199 And it will report errors on boot if it's enabled but not properly
200 configured.</para>
201 </listitem>
202 </varlistentry>
203
204 <varlistentry>
205 <term><parameter>-D ukify=disabled</parameter></term>
206 <listitem>
207 <para>Do not install the <command>systemd-ukify</command> script.
208 At runtime this script requires the
209 <application>pefile</application> Python module that neither LFS
210 nor BLFS provides.</para>
211 </listitem>
212 </varlistentry>
213
214 </variablelist>
215
216 <para>Compile the package:</para>
217
218<screen><userinput remap="make">ninja</userinput></screen>
219
220 <para>Some tests need a basic <filename>/etc/os-release</filename> file.
221 To test the results, issue:</para>
222
223<screen><userinput remap="test">echo 'NAME="Linux From Scratch"' &gt; /etc/os-release
224ninja test</userinput></screen>
225
226 <!-- test-namespace needs /run/systemd/inaccessible/sock, which only exists
227 after initializing the system with systemd. -->
228 <para>One test named <literal>systemd:core / test-namespace</literal>
229 is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment. Some other tests may
230 fail because they depend on various kernel configuration options.</para>
231
232 <para>Install the package:</para>
233
234<screen><userinput remap="install">ninja install</userinput></screen>
235
236 <para>Install the man pages:</para>
237
238 <!-- Please make sure systemd man pages tarball has a common leading
239 component in the path. -->
240<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xf ../../systemd-man-pages-&systemd-man-version;.tar.xz \
241 --no-same-owner --strip-components=1 \
242 -C /usr/share/man</userinput></screen>
243
244 <para>Create the <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> file needed by
245 <command>systemd-journald</command>:</para>
246
247<screen><userinput remap="adjust">systemd-machine-id-setup</userinput></screen>
248
249 <para>Set up the basic target structure:</para>
250
251<screen><userinput remap="adjust">systemctl preset-all</userinput></screen>
252
253<!-- dev: 50-pid-max.conf is not removed in BLFS, so I commented the following out.
254 If it causes any trouble, we can add this back and also copy it into BLFS -->
255<!--
256 <para>Prevent systemd from resetting the maximum PID value which causes
257 some problems with packages and units in BLFS:</para>
258
259<screen><userinput remap="adjust">rm -f /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-pid-max.conf</userinput></screen>
260-->
261
262 </sect2>
263
264 <sect2 id="contents-systemd" role="content">
265 <title>Contents of systemd</title>
266
267 <segmentedlist>
268 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
269 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
270 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
271
272 <seglistitem>
273 <seg>busctl, coredumpctl, halt (symlink to systemctl),
274 hostnamectl, init, journalctl, kernel-install, localectl, loginctl,
275 machinectl, mount.ddi (symlink to systemd-dissect), networkctl,
276 oomctl, portablectl, poweroff (symlink to
277 systemctl), reboot (symlink to systemctl), resolvconf (symlink to
278 resolvectl), resolvectl, runlevel (symlink to systemctl), shutdown
279 (symlink to systemctl), systemctl, systemd-ac-power, systemd-analyze,
280 systemd-ask-password, systemd-cat, systemd-cgls, systemd-cgtop,
281 systemd-confext (symlink to systemd-sysext), systemd-creds,
282 systemd-delta, systemd-detect-virt,
283 systemd-dissect, systemd-escape, systemd-hwdb, systemd-id128,
284 systemd-inhibit, systemd-machine-id-setup,
285 systemd-mount, systemd-notify, systemd-nspawn, systemd-path,
286 systemd-repart, systemd-resolve (symlink to resolvectl), systemd-run,
287 systemd-socket-activate, systemd-stdio-bridge, systemd-sysext,
288 systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-tty-ask-password-agent,
289 systemd-umount (symlink to systemd-mount),
290 telinit (symlink to systemctl), timedatectl, and udevadm</seg>
291 <seg>libnss_myhostname.so.2, libnss_mymachines.so.2,
292 libnss_resolve.so.2, libnss_systemd.so.2,
293 libsystemd.so, libsystemd-shared-&systemd-version;.so (in /usr/lib/systemd),
294 and libudev.so</seg>
295 <seg>/etc/binfmt.d, /etc/init.d, /etc/kernel, /etc/modules-load.d,
296 /etc/sysctl.d, /etc/systemd, /etc/tmpfiles.d, /etc/udev,
297 /etc/xdg/systemd, /usr/lib/systemd, /usr/lib/udev, /usr/include/systemd,
298 /usr/lib/binfmt.d, /usr/lib/environment.d, /usr/lib/kernel,
299 /usr/lib/modules-load.d, /usr/lib/sysctl.d, /usr/lib/systemd,
300 /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d,
301 /usr/share/doc/systemd-&systemd-version;, /usr/share/factory,
302 /usr/share/systemd, /var/lib/systemd, and /var/log/journal</seg>
303 </seglistitem>
304 </segmentedlist>
305
306 <variablelist>
307 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
308 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
309 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
310
311 <varlistentry id="busctl">
312 <term><command>busctl</command></term>
313 <listitem>
314 <para>Is used to introspect and monitor the D-Bus bus</para>
315 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd busctl">
316 <primary sortas="b-busctl">busctl</primary>
317 </indexterm>
318 </listitem>
319 </varlistentry>
320
321 <varlistentry id="coredumpctl">
322 <term><command>coredumpctl</command></term>
323 <listitem>
324 <para>Is used to retrieve coredumps from the systemd journal</para>
325 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd coredumpctl">
326 <primary sortas="b-coredumpctl">coredumpctl</primary>
327 </indexterm>
328 </listitem>
329 </varlistentry>
330
331 <varlistentry id="halt">
332 <term><command>halt</command></term>
333 <listitem>
334 <para>Normally invokes <command>shutdown</command> with the
335 <parameter>-h</parameter> option, except when already in run-level 0,
336 when it tells the kernel to halt the system; it notes in the
337 file <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename> that the system is being
338 brought down</para>
339 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd halt">
340 <primary sortas="b-halt">halt</primary>
341 </indexterm>
342 </listitem>
343 </varlistentry>
344
345 <varlistentry id="hostnamectl">
346 <term><command>hostnamectl</command></term>
347 <listitem>
348 <para>Is used to query and change the system hostname and related
349 settings</para>
350 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd hostnamectl">
351 <primary sortas="b-hostnamectl">hostnamectl</primary>
352 </indexterm>
353 </listitem>
354 </varlistentry>
355
356 <varlistentry id="init">
357 <term><command>init</command></term>
358 <listitem>
359 <para>Is the first process to be started after the kernel has initialized
360 the hardware; <command>init</command> takes over the boot process and starts the
361 processes specified by its configuration files; in this case, it starts
362 systemd</para>
363 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd init">
364 <primary sortas="b-init">init</primary>
365 </indexterm>
366 </listitem>
367 </varlistentry>
368
369 <varlistentry id="journalctl">
370 <term><command>journalctl</command></term>
371 <listitem>
372 <para>Is used to query the contents of the systemd journal</para>
373 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd journalctl">
374 <primary sortas="b-journalctl">journalctl</primary>
375 </indexterm>
376 </listitem>
377 </varlistentry>
378
379 <varlistentry id="kernel-install">
380 <term><command>kernel-install</command></term>
381 <listitem>
382 <para>Is used to add and remove kernel and initramfs images to and
383 from /boot; in LFS, this is done manually</para>
384 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd kernel-install">
385 <primary sortas="b-kernel-install">kernel-install</primary>
386 </indexterm>
387 </listitem>
388 </varlistentry>
389
390 <varlistentry id="localectl">
391 <term><command>localectl</command></term>
392 <listitem>
393 <para>Is used to query and change the system locale and keyboard layout
394 settings</para>
395 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd localectl">
396 <primary sortas="b-localectl">localectl</primary>
397 </indexterm>
398 </listitem>
399 </varlistentry>
400
401 <varlistentry id="loginctl">
402 <term><command>loginctl</command></term>
403 <listitem>
404 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd Login
405 Manager</para>
406 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd loginctl">
407 <primary sortas="b-loginctl">loginctl</primary>
408 </indexterm>
409 </listitem>
410 </varlistentry>
411
412 <varlistentry id="machinectl">
413 <term><command>machinectl</command></term>
414 <listitem>
415 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd Virtual
416 Machine and Container Registration Manager</para>
417 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd machinectl">
418 <primary sortas="b-machinectl">machinectl</primary>
419 </indexterm>
420 </listitem>
421 </varlistentry>
422
423 <varlistentry id="networkctl">
424 <term><command>networkctl</command></term>
425 <listitem>
426 <para>Is used to introspect and configure the state of the network
427 links configured by systemd-networkd</para>
428 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd networkctl">
429 <primary sortas="b-networkctl">networkctl</primary>
430 </indexterm>
431 </listitem>
432 </varlistentry>
433
434 <varlistentry id="oomctl">
435 <term><command>oomctl</command></term>
436 <listitem>
437 <para>Controls the systemd Out Of Memory daemon</para>
438 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd oomctl">
439 <primary sortas="b-oomctl">oomctl</primary>
440 </indexterm>
441 </listitem>
442 </varlistentry>
443
444 <varlistentry id="portablectl">
445 <term><command>portablectl</command></term>
446 <listitem>
447 <para>Is used to attach or detach portable services from the local
448 system</para>
449 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd portablectl">
450 <primary sortas="b-portablectl">portablectl</primary>
451 </indexterm>
452 </listitem>
453 </varlistentry>
454
455 <varlistentry id="poweroff">
456 <term><command>poweroff</command></term>
457 <listitem>
458 <para>Instructs the kernel to halt the system and switch off the computer
459 (see <command>halt</command>)</para>
460 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd poweroff">
461 <primary sortas="b-poweroff">poweroff</primary>
462 </indexterm>
463 </listitem>
464 </varlistentry>
465
466 <varlistentry id="reboot">
467 <term><command>reboot</command></term>
468 <listitem>
469 <para>Instructs the kernel to reboot the system (see
470 <command>halt</command>)</para>
471 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd reboot">
472 <primary sortas="b-reboot">reboot</primary>
473 </indexterm>
474 </listitem>
475 </varlistentry>
476
477 <varlistentry id="resolvconf">
478 <term><command>resolvconf</command></term>
479 <listitem>
480 <para>Registers DNS server and domain configuration with
481 <command>systemd-resolved</command></para>
482 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd resolvconf">
483 <primary sortas="b-resolvconf">resolvconf</primary>
484 </indexterm>
485 </listitem>
486 </varlistentry>
487
488 <varlistentry id="resolvectl">
489 <term><command>resolvectl</command></term>
490 <listitem>
491 <para>Sends control commands to the network name resolution
492 manager, or resolves domain names, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses,
493 DNS records, and services</para>
494 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd resolvectl">
495 <primary sortas="b-resolvectl">resolvectl</primary>
496 </indexterm>
497 </listitem>
498 </varlistentry>
499
500 <varlistentry id="runlevel">
501 <term><command>runlevel</command></term>
502 <listitem>
503 <para>Outputs the previous and the current run-level, as noted in the
504 last run-level record in <filename>/run/utmp</filename></para>
505 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd runlevel">
506 <primary sortas="b-runlevel">runlevel</primary>
507 </indexterm>
508 </listitem>
509 </varlistentry>
510
511 <varlistentry id="shutdown">
512 <term><command>shutdown</command></term>
513 <listitem>
514 <para>Brings the system down in a safe and secure manner, signaling
515 all processes and notifying all logged-in users</para>
516 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd shutdown">
517 <primary sortas="b-shutdown">shutdown</primary>
518 </indexterm>
519 </listitem>
520 </varlistentry>
521
522 <varlistentry id="systemctl">
523 <term><command>systemctl</command></term>
524 <listitem>
525 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd system
526 and service manager</para>
527 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemctl">
528 <primary sortas="b-systemctl">systemctl</primary>
529 </indexterm>
530 </listitem>
531 </varlistentry>
532
533 <varlistentry id="systemd-ac-power">
534 <term><command>systemd-ac-power</command></term>
535 <listitem>
536 <para>Reports whether the system is connected to an external
537 power source.</para>
538 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-ac-power">
539 <primary sortas="b-systemd-ac-power">systemd-ac-power</primary>
540 </indexterm>
541 </listitem>
542 </varlistentry>
543
544 <varlistentry id="systemd-analyze">
545 <term><command>systemd-analyze</command></term>
546 <listitem>
547 <para>Is used to analyze system startup performance,
548 as well as identify troublesome systemd units</para>
549 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-analyze">
550 <primary sortas="b-systemd-analyze">systemd-analyze</primary>
551 </indexterm>
552 </listitem>
553 </varlistentry>
554
555 <varlistentry id="systemd-ask-password">
556 <term><command>systemd-ask-password</command></term>
557 <listitem>
558 <para>Is used to query a system password or passphrase from the user,
559 using a message specified on the Linux command line</para>
560 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-ask-password">
561 <primary sortas="b-systemd-ask-password">systemd-ask-password</primary>
562 </indexterm>
563 </listitem>
564 </varlistentry>
565
566 <varlistentry id="systemd-cat">
567 <term><command>systemd-cat</command></term>
568 <listitem>
569 <para>Is used to connect the STDOUT and STDERR outputs of a process
570 with the systemd journal
571 </para>
572 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cat">
573 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cat">systemd-cat</primary>
574 </indexterm>
575 </listitem>
576 </varlistentry>
577
578 <varlistentry id="systemd-cgls">
579 <term><command>systemd-cgls</command></term>
580 <listitem>
581 <para>Recursively shows the contents of the selected Linux control
582 group hierarchy in a tree</para>
583 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cgls">
584 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cgls">systemd-cgls</primary>
585 </indexterm>
586 </listitem>
587 </varlistentry>
588
589 <varlistentry id="systemd-cgtop">
590 <term><command>systemd-cgtop</command></term>
591 <listitem>
592 <para>Shows the top control groups of the local Linux control group
593 hierarchy, ordered by their CPU, memory and disk I/O loads</para>
594 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cgtop">
595 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cgtop">systemd-cgtop</primary>
596 </indexterm>
597 </listitem>
598 </varlistentry>
599
600 <varlistentry id="systemd-creds">
601 <term><command>systemd-creds</command></term>
602 <listitem>
603 <para>Displays and processes credentials</para>
604 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-creds">
605 <primary sortas="b-systemd-creds">systemd-creds</primary>
606 </indexterm>
607 </listitem>
608 </varlistentry>
609
610 <varlistentry id="systemd-delta">
611 <term><command>systemd-delta</command></term>
612 <listitem>
613 <para>Is used to identify and compare configuration files in
614 <filename class="directory">/etc</filename> that override the defaults
615 in <filename class="directory">/usr</filename></para>
616 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-delta">
617 <primary sortas="b-systemd-delta">systemd-delta</primary>
618 </indexterm>
619 </listitem>
620 </varlistentry>
621
622 <varlistentry id="systemd-detect-virt">
623 <term><command>systemd-detect-virt</command></term>
624 <listitem>
625 <para>Detects whether the system is being run in a virtual
626 environment, and adjusts udev accordingly</para>
627 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-detect-virt">
628 <primary sortas="b-systemd-detect-virt">systemd-detect-virt</primary>
629 </indexterm>
630 </listitem>
631 </varlistentry>
632
633 <varlistentry id="systemd-dissect">
634 <term><command>systemd-dissect</command></term>
635 <listitem>
636 <para>Is used to inspect OS disk images</para>
637 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-dissect">
638 <primary sortas="b-systemd-dissect">systemd-dissect</primary>
639 </indexterm>
640 </listitem>
641 </varlistentry>
642
643 <varlistentry id="systemd-escape">
644 <term><command>systemd-escape</command></term>
645 <listitem>
646 <para>Is used to escape strings for inclusion in systemd unit
647 names</para>
648 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-escape">
649 <primary sortas="b-systemd-escape">systemd-escape</primary>
650 </indexterm>
651 </listitem>
652 </varlistentry>
653
654 <varlistentry id="systemd-hwdb">
655 <term><command>systemd-hwdb</command></term>
656 <listitem>
657 <para>Is used to manage the hardware database (hwdb)</para>
658 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-hwdb">
659 <primary sortas="b-systemd-hwdb">systemd-hwdb</primary>
660 </indexterm>
661 </listitem>
662 </varlistentry>
663
664 <varlistentry id="systemd-id128">
665 <term><command>systemd-id128</command></term>
666 <listitem>
667 <para>Generates and prints id128 (UUID) strings</para>
668 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-id128">
669 <primary sortas="b-systemd-id128">systemd-id128</primary>
670 </indexterm>
671 </listitem>
672 </varlistentry>
673
674 <varlistentry id="systemd-inhibit">
675 <term><command>systemd-inhibit</command></term>
676 <listitem>
677 <para>Is used to execute a program with a shutdown, sleep or idle
678 inhibitor lock taken, preventing an action such as a system shutdown
679 until the process is completed</para>
680 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-inhibit">
681 <primary sortas="b-systemd-inhibit">systemd-inhibit</primary>
682 </indexterm>
683 </listitem>
684 </varlistentry>
685
686 <varlistentry id="systemd-machine-id-setup">
687 <term><command>systemd-machine-id-setup</command></term>
688 <listitem>
689 <para>Is used by system installer tools to initialize the machine ID
690 stored in <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> at install time with a
691 randomly generated ID</para>
692 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-machine-id-setup">
693 <primary sortas="b-systemd-machine-id-setup">systemd-machine-id-setup</primary>
694 </indexterm>
695 </listitem>
696 </varlistentry>
697
698 <varlistentry id="systemd-mount">
699 <term><command>systemd-mount</command></term>
700 <listitem>
701 <para>Is used to temporarily mount or automount disks</para>
702 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-mount">
703 <primary sortas="b-systemd-mount">systemd-mount</primary>
704 </indexterm>
705 </listitem>
706 </varlistentry>
707
708 <varlistentry id="systemd-notify">
709 <term><command>systemd-notify</command></term>
710 <listitem>
711 <para>Is used by daemon scripts to notify the init system of status
712 changes</para>
713 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-notify">
714 <primary sortas="b-systemd-notify">systemd-notify</primary>
715 </indexterm>
716 </listitem>
717 </varlistentry>
718
719 <varlistentry id="systemd-nspawn">
720 <term><command>systemd-nspawn</command></term>
721 <listitem>
722 <para>Is used to run a command, or an entire OS, in a light-weight namespace
723 container</para>
724 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-nspawn">
725 <primary sortas="b-systemd-nspawn">systemd-nspawn</primary>
726 </indexterm>
727 </listitem>
728 </varlistentry>
729
730 <varlistentry id="systemd-path">
731 <term><command>systemd-path</command></term>
732 <listitem>
733 <para>Is used to query system and user paths</para>
734 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-path">
735 <primary sortas="b-systemd-path">systemd-path</primary>
736 </indexterm>
737 </listitem>
738 </varlistentry>
739
740 <varlistentry id="systemd-repart">
741 <term><command>systemd-repart</command></term>
742 <listitem>
743 <para>Is used to grow and add partitions to a partition table when
744 systemd is used with an OS image (e.g. a container)</para>
745 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-repart">
746 <primary sortas="b-systemd-repart">systemd-repart</primary>
747 </indexterm>
748 </listitem>
749 </varlistentry>
750
751 <varlistentry id="systemd-resolve">
752 <term><command>systemd-resolve</command></term>
753 <listitem>
754 <para>Is used to resolve domain names, IPV4 and IPv6 addresses, DNS
755 resource records, and services</para>
756 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-resolve">
757 <primary sortas="b-systemd-resolve">systemd-resolve</primary>
758 </indexterm>
759 </listitem>
760 </varlistentry>
761
762 <varlistentry id="systemd-run">
763 <term><command>systemd-run</command></term>
764 <listitem>
765 <para>Is used to create and start a transient .service or a .scope
766 unit and run the specified command in it; this is useful for
767 validating systemd units</para>
768 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-run">
769 <primary sortas="b-systemd-run">systemd-run</primary>
770 </indexterm>
771 </listitem>
772 </varlistentry>
773
774 <varlistentry id="systemd-socket-activate">
775 <term><command>systemd-socket-activate</command></term>
776 <listitem>
777 <para>Is used to listen on socket devices and launch a process upon
778 a successful connection to the socket</para>
779 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-socket-activate">
780 <primary sortas="b-systemd-socket-activate">systemd-socket-activate</primary>
781 </indexterm>
782 </listitem>
783 </varlistentry>
784
785 <varlistentry id="systemd-sysext">
786 <term><command>systemd-sysext</command></term>
787 <listitem>
788 <para>Activates system extension images</para>
789 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-sysext">
790 <primary sortas="b-systemd-sysext">systemd-sysext</primary>
791 </indexterm>
792 </listitem>
793 </varlistentry>
794
795 <varlistentry id="systemd-tmpfiles">
796 <term><command>systemd-tmpfiles</command></term>
797 <listitem>
798 <para>Creates, deletes, and cleans up volatile and temporary files and
799 directories, based on the configuration file format and location
800 specified in
801 <filename class="directory">tmpfiles.d</filename> directories</para>
802 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-tmpfiles">
803 <primary sortas="b-systemd-tmpfiles">systemd-tmpfiles</primary>
804 </indexterm>
805 </listitem>
806 </varlistentry>
807
808 <varlistentry id="systemd-umount">
809 <term><command>systemd-umount</command></term>
810 <listitem>
811 <para>Unmounts mount points</para>
812 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-umount">
813 <primary sortas="b-systemd-umount">systemd-umount</primary>
814 </indexterm>
815 </listitem>
816 </varlistentry>
817
818 <varlistentry id="systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">
819 <term><command>systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</command></term>
820 <listitem>
821 <para>Is used to list and/or process pending systemd password
822 requests</para>
823 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">
824 <primary sortas="b-systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</primary>
825 </indexterm>
826 </listitem>
827 </varlistentry>
828
829 <varlistentry id="telinit">
830 <term><command>telinit</command></term>
831 <listitem>
832 <para>Tells <command>init</command> which run-level to change
833 to</para>
834 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd telinit">
835 <primary sortas="b-telinit">telinit</primary>
836 </indexterm>
837 </listitem>
838 </varlistentry>
839
840 <varlistentry id="timedatectl">
841 <term><command>timedatectl</command></term>
842 <listitem>
843 <para>Is used to query and change the system clock and its settings
844 </para>
845 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd timedatectl">
846 <primary sortas="b-timedatectl">timedatectl</primary>
847 </indexterm>
848 </listitem>
849 </varlistentry>
850
851 <varlistentry id="udevadm">
852 <term><command>udevadm</command></term>
853 <listitem>
854 <para>Is a generic udev administration tool which controls the udevd
855 daemon, provides info from the udev hardware database, monitors
856 uevents, waits for uevents to finish, tests udev configuration, and
857 triggers uevents for a given device</para>
858 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd udevadm">
859 <primary sortas="b-udevadm">udevadm</primary>
860 </indexterm>
861 </listitem>
862 </varlistentry>
863
864 <varlistentry id="libsystemd">
865 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsystemd</filename></term>
866 <listitem>
867 <para>Is the main systemd utility library</para>
868 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd libsystemd">
869 <primary sortas="c-libsystemd">libsystemd</primary>
870 </indexterm>
871 </listitem>
872 </varlistentry>
873
874 <varlistentry id="libudev">
875 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libudev</filename></term>
876 <listitem>
877 <para>Is a library to access Udev device information</para>
878 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd libudev">
879 <primary sortas="c-libudev">libudev</primary>
880 </indexterm>
881 </listitem>
882 </varlistentry>
883
884 </variablelist>
885
886 </sect2>
887
888</sect1>
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