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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-systemd" role="wrap" revision="systemd">
9 <?dbhtml filename="systemd.html"?>
10
11 <sect1info condition="script">
12 <productname>systemd</productname>
13 <productnumber>&systemd-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&systemd-url;</address>
15 </sect1info>
16
17 <title>Systemd-&systemd-version;</title>
18
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd">
20 <primary sortas="a-systemd">systemd</primary>
21 </indexterm>
22
23 <sect2 role="package">
24 <title/>
25
26 <para>The systemd package contains programs for controlling the startup,
27 running, and shutdown of the system.</para>
28
29 <segmentedlist>
30 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
31 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
32
33 <seglistitem>
34 <seg>&systemd-fin-sbu;</seg>
35 <seg>&systemd-fin-du;</seg>
36 </seglistitem>
37 </segmentedlist>
38 </sect2>
39
40 <sect2 role="installation">
41 <title>Installation of systemd</title>
42
43 <para>Remove two unneeded groups,
44 <systemitem class="groupname">render</systemitem> and
45 <systemitem class="groupname">sgx</systemitem>, from the default udev
46 rules:</para>
47
48 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e 's/GROUP="render"/GROUP="video"/' \
49 -e 's/GROUP="sgx", //' rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.in</userinput></screen>
50
51 <!-- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/30549 -->
52 <para>Now fix a security vulnerability in the DNSSEC verification of
53 <command>systemd-resolved</command>:</para>
54
55<screen><userinput remap='pre'>sed -e '/return FLAGS_SET.*AUTHENTICATED/s/(t/(dt/' \
56 -i src/resolve/resolved-dns-transaction.c</userinput></screen>
57
58 <para>Prepare systemd for compilation:</para>
59
60<screen><userinput remap="configure">mkdir -p build
61cd build
62
63meson setup \
64 --prefix=/usr \
65 --buildtype=release \
66 -Ddefault-dnssec=no \
67 -Dfirstboot=false \
68 -Dinstall-tests=false \
69 -Dldconfig=false \
70 -Dsysusers=false \
71 -Drpmmacrosdir=no \
72 -Dhomed=disabled \
73 -Duserdb=false \
74 -Dman=disabled \
75 -Dmode=release \
76 -Dpamconfdir=no \
77 -Ddev-kvm-mode=0660 \
78 -Dnobody-group=nogroup \
79 -Dsysupdate=disabled \
80 -Dukify=disabled \
81 -Ddocdir=/usr/share/doc/systemd-&systemd-version; \
82 ..</userinput></screen>
83
84 <variablelist>
85 <title>The meaning of the meson options:</title>
86
87 <varlistentry>
88 <term><parameter>--buildtype=release</parameter></term>
89 <listitem>
90 <para>This switch overrides the default buildtype
91 (<quote>debug</quote>), which produces unoptimized
92 binaries.</para>
93 </listitem>
94 </varlistentry>
95
96 <varlistentry>
97 <term><parameter>-Ddefault-dnssec=no</parameter></term>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>This switch turns off the experimental DNSSEC support.</para>
100 </listitem>
101 </varlistentry>
102
103 <varlistentry>
104 <term><parameter>-Dfirstboot=false</parameter></term>
105 <listitem>
106 <para>This switch prevents installation of systemd
107 services responsible for setting up the system for
108 the first time. These are not useful in LFS, because
109 everything is done manually.</para>
110 </listitem>
111 </varlistentry>
112
113 <varlistentry>
114 <term><parameter>-Dinstall-tests=false</parameter></term>
115 <listitem>
116 <para>This switch prevents installation of the compiled tests.</para>
117 </listitem>
118 </varlistentry>
119
120 <varlistentry>
121 <term><parameter>-Dldconfig=false</parameter></term>
122 <listitem>
123 <para>This switch prevents installation of a systemd unit that runs
124 <command>ldconfig</command> at boot; this is not useful for source
125 distributions such as LFS, and makes the boot time longer. Remove
126 this option to enable running <command>ldconfig</command> at boot.</para>
127 </listitem>
128 </varlistentry>
129
130 <varlistentry>
131 <term><parameter>-Dsysusers=false</parameter></term>
132 <listitem>
133 <para>This switch prevents installation of systemd
134 services responsible for setting up the
135 <filename>/etc/group</filename> and
136 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> files. Both files
137 were created in the previous chapter. This daemon is not useful
138 on an LFS system since user accounts are manually created.</para>
139 </listitem>
140 </varlistentry>
141
142 <varlistentry>
143 <term><parameter>-Drpmmacrosdir=no</parameter></term>
144 <listitem>
145 <para>This switch disables installation of RPM Macros
146 for use with systemd, because LFS does not support RPM.</para>
147 </listitem>
148 </varlistentry>
149
150 <varlistentry>
151 <term><parameter>-Dhomed=disabled</parameter> and
152 <parameter>-Duserdb=false</parameter></term>
153 <listitem>
154 <para>Remove two daemons with dependencies that do not fit
155 within the scope of LFS.</para>
156 </listitem>
157 </varlistentry>
158
159 <varlistentry>
160 <term><parameter>-Dman=disabled</parameter></term>
161 <listitem>
162 <para>Prevent the generation of man pages to avoid extra
163 dependencies. We will install pre-generated man pages for systemd
164 from a tarball.</para>
165 </listitem>
166 </varlistentry>
167
168 <varlistentry>
169 <term><parameter>-Dmode=release</parameter></term>
170 <listitem>
171 <para>Disable some features considered experimental by upstream.
172 </para>
173 </listitem>
174 </varlistentry>
175
176 <varlistentry>
177 <term><parameter>-Dpamconfdir=no</parameter></term>
178 <listitem>
179 <para>Prevent the installation of a PAM configuration file not
180 functional on LFS.</para>
181 </listitem>
182 </varlistentry>
183
184 <varlistentry>
185 <term><parameter>-Ddev-kvm-mode=0660</parameter></term>
186 <listitem>
187 <para>The default udev rule would allow all users to access
188 <filename class='devicefile'>/dev/kvm</filename>. The editors
189 consider it dangerous. This option overrides it.</para>
190 </listitem>
191 </varlistentry>
192
193 <varlistentry>
194 <term><parameter>-Dnobody-group=nogroup</parameter></term>
195 <listitem>
196 <para>Tell the package the group name with GID 65534 is
197 <systemitem class='groupname'>nogroup</systemitem>.</para>
198 </listitem>
199 </varlistentry>
200
201 <varlistentry>
202 <term><parameter>-Dsysupdate=disabled</parameter></term>
203 <listitem>
204 <para>Do not install the <command>systemd-sysupdate</command>
205 tool. It's designed for automatically upgrading binary distros,
206 so it's useless for a basic Linux system built from source.
207 And it will report errors on boot if it's enabled but not properly
208 configured.</para>
209 </listitem>
210 </varlistentry>
211
212 <varlistentry>
213 <term><parameter>-Dukify=disabled</parameter></term>
214 <listitem>
215 <para>Do not install the <command>systemd-ukify</command> script.
216 At runtime this script requires the
217 <application>pefile</application> Python module that neither LFS
218 nor BLFS provides.</para>
219 </listitem>
220 </varlistentry>
221
222 </variablelist>
223
224 <para>Compile the package:</para>
225
226<screen><userinput remap="make">ninja</userinput></screen>
227
228 <para>Install the package:</para>
229
230<screen><userinput remap="install">ninja install</userinput></screen>
231
232 <para>Install the man pages:</para>
233
234 <!-- Please make sure systemd man pages tarball has a common leading
235 component in the path. -->
236<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xf ../../systemd-man-pages-&systemd-version;.tar.xz \
237 --no-same-owner --strip-components=1 \
238 -C /usr/share/man</userinput></screen>
239
240 <para>Create the <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> file needed by
241 <command>systemd-journald</command>:</para>
242
243<screen><userinput remap="adjust">systemd-machine-id-setup</userinput></screen>
244
245 <para>Set up the basic target structure:</para>
246
247<screen><userinput remap="adjust">systemctl preset-all</userinput></screen>
248
249<!-- dev: 50-pid-max.conf is not removed in BLFS, so I commented the following out.
250 If it causes any trouble, we can add this back and also copy it into BLFS -->
251<!--
252 <para>Prevent systemd from resetting the maximum PID value which causes
253 some problems with packages and units in BLFS:</para>
254
255<screen><userinput remap="adjust">rm -f /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-pid-max.conf</userinput></screen>
256-->
257
258 </sect2>
259
260 <sect2 id="contents-systemd" role="content">
261 <title>Contents of systemd</title>
262
263 <segmentedlist>
264 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
265 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
266 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
267
268 <seglistitem>
269 <seg>busctl, coredumpctl, halt (symlink to systemctl),
270 hostnamectl, init, journalctl, kernel-install, localectl, loginctl,
271 machinectl, mount.ddi (symlink to systemd-dissect), networkctl,
272 oomctl, portablectl, poweroff (symlink to
273 systemctl), reboot (symlink to systemctl), resolvconf (symlink to
274 resolvectl), resolvectl, runlevel (symlink to systemctl), shutdown
275 (symlink to systemctl), systemctl, systemd-ac-power, systemd-analyze,
276 systemd-ask-password, systemd-cat, systemd-cgls, systemd-cgtop,
277 systemd-confext (symlink to systemd-sysext), systemd-creds,
278 systemd-delta, systemd-detect-virt,
279 systemd-dissect, systemd-escape, systemd-hwdb, systemd-id128,
280 systemd-inhibit, systemd-machine-id-setup,
281 systemd-mount, systemd-notify, systemd-nspawn, systemd-path,
282 systemd-repart, systemd-resolve (symlink to resolvectl), systemd-run,
283 systemd-socket-activate, systemd-stdio-bridge, systemd-sysext,
284 systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-tty-ask-password-agent,
285 systemd-umount (symlink to systemd-mount),
286 telinit (symlink to systemctl), timedatectl, and udevadm</seg>
287 <seg>libnss_myhostname.so.2, libnss_mymachines.so.2,
288 libnss_resolve.so.2, libnss_systemd.so.2,
289 libsystemd.so, libsystemd-shared-&systemd-version;.so (in /usr/lib/systemd),
290 and libudev.so</seg>
291 <seg>/etc/binfmt.d, /etc/init.d, /etc/kernel, /etc/modules-load.d,
292 /etc/sysctl.d, /etc/systemd, /etc/tmpfiles.d, /etc/udev,
293 /etc/xdg/systemd, /usr/lib/systemd, /usr/lib/udev, /usr/include/systemd,
294 /usr/lib/binfmt.d, /usr/lib/environment.d, /usr/lib/kernel,
295 /usr/lib/modules-load.d, /usr/lib/sysctl.d, /usr/lib/systemd,
296 /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d,
297 /usr/share/doc/systemd-&systemd-version;, /usr/share/factory,
298 /usr/share/systemd, /var/lib/systemd, and /var/log/journal</seg>
299 </seglistitem>
300 </segmentedlist>
301
302 <variablelist>
303 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
304 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
305 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
306
307 <varlistentry id="busctl">
308 <term><command>busctl</command></term>
309 <listitem>
310 <para>Is used to introspect and monitor the D-Bus bus</para>
311 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd busctl">
312 <primary sortas="b-busctl">busctl</primary>
313 </indexterm>
314 </listitem>
315 </varlistentry>
316
317 <varlistentry id="coredumpctl">
318 <term><command>coredumpctl</command></term>
319 <listitem>
320 <para>Is used to retrieve coredumps from the systemd journal</para>
321 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd coredumpctl">
322 <primary sortas="b-coredumpctl">coredumpctl</primary>
323 </indexterm>
324 </listitem>
325 </varlistentry>
326
327 <varlistentry id="halt">
328 <term><command>halt</command></term>
329 <listitem>
330 <para>Normally invokes <command>shutdown</command> with the
331 <parameter>-h</parameter> option, except when already in run-level 0,
332 when it tells the kernel to halt the system; it notes in the
333 file <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename> that the system is being
334 brought down</para>
335 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd halt">
336 <primary sortas="b-halt">halt</primary>
337 </indexterm>
338 </listitem>
339 </varlistentry>
340
341 <varlistentry id="hostnamectl">
342 <term><command>hostnamectl</command></term>
343 <listitem>
344 <para>Is used to query and change the system hostname and related
345 settings</para>
346 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd hostnamectl">
347 <primary sortas="b-hostnamectl">hostnamectl</primary>
348 </indexterm>
349 </listitem>
350 </varlistentry>
351
352 <varlistentry id="init">
353 <term><command>init</command></term>
354 <listitem>
355 <para>Is the first process to be started after the kernel has initialized
356 the hardware; <command>init</command> takes over the boot process and starts the
357 processes specified by its configuration files; in this case, it starts
358 systemd</para>
359 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd init">
360 <primary sortas="b-init">init</primary>
361 </indexterm>
362 </listitem>
363 </varlistentry>
364
365 <varlistentry id="journalctl">
366 <term><command>journalctl</command></term>
367 <listitem>
368 <para>Is used to query the contents of the systemd journal</para>
369 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd journalctl">
370 <primary sortas="b-journalctl">journalctl</primary>
371 </indexterm>
372 </listitem>
373 </varlistentry>
374
375 <varlistentry id="kernel-install">
376 <term><command>kernel-install</command></term>
377 <listitem>
378 <para>Is used to add and remove kernel and initramfs images to and
379 from /boot; in LFS, this is done manually</para>
380 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd kernel-install">
381 <primary sortas="b-kernel-install">kernel-install</primary>
382 </indexterm>
383 </listitem>
384 </varlistentry>
385
386 <varlistentry id="localectl">
387 <term><command>localectl</command></term>
388 <listitem>
389 <para>Is used to query and change the system locale and keyboard layout
390 settings</para>
391 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd localectl">
392 <primary sortas="b-localectl">localectl</primary>
393 </indexterm>
394 </listitem>
395 </varlistentry>
396
397 <varlistentry id="loginctl">
398 <term><command>loginctl</command></term>
399 <listitem>
400 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd Login
401 Manager</para>
402 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd loginctl">
403 <primary sortas="b-loginctl">loginctl</primary>
404 </indexterm>
405 </listitem>
406 </varlistentry>
407
408 <varlistentry id="machinectl">
409 <term><command>machinectl</command></term>
410 <listitem>
411 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd Virtual
412 Machine and Container Registration Manager</para>
413 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd machinectl">
414 <primary sortas="b-machinectl">machinectl</primary>
415 </indexterm>
416 </listitem>
417 </varlistentry>
418
419 <varlistentry id="networkctl">
420 <term><command>networkctl</command></term>
421 <listitem>
422 <para>Is used to introspect and configure the state of the network
423 links configured by systemd-networkd</para>
424 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd networkctl">
425 <primary sortas="b-networkctl">networkctl</primary>
426 </indexterm>
427 </listitem>
428 </varlistentry>
429
430 <varlistentry id="oomctl">
431 <term><command>oomctl</command></term>
432 <listitem>
433 <para>Controls the systemd Out Of Memory daemon</para>
434 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd oomctl">
435 <primary sortas="b-oomctl">oomctl</primary>
436 </indexterm>
437 </listitem>
438 </varlistentry>
439
440 <varlistentry id="portablectl">
441 <term><command>portablectl</command></term>
442 <listitem>
443 <para>Is used to attach or detach portable services from the local
444 system</para>
445 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd portablectl">
446 <primary sortas="b-portablectl">portablectl</primary>
447 </indexterm>
448 </listitem>
449 </varlistentry>
450
451 <varlistentry id="poweroff">
452 <term><command>poweroff</command></term>
453 <listitem>
454 <para>Instructs the kernel to halt the system and switch off the computer
455 (see <command>halt</command>)</para>
456 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd poweroff">
457 <primary sortas="b-poweroff">poweroff</primary>
458 </indexterm>
459 </listitem>
460 </varlistentry>
461
462 <varlistentry id="reboot">
463 <term><command>reboot</command></term>
464 <listitem>
465 <para>Instructs the kernel to reboot the system (see
466 <command>halt</command>)</para>
467 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd reboot">
468 <primary sortas="b-reboot">reboot</primary>
469 </indexterm>
470 </listitem>
471 </varlistentry>
472
473 <varlistentry id="resolvconf">
474 <term><command>resolvconf</command></term>
475 <listitem>
476 <para>Registers DNS server and domain configuration with
477 <command>systemd-resolved</command></para>
478 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd resolvconf">
479 <primary sortas="b-resolvconf">resolvconf</primary>
480 </indexterm>
481 </listitem>
482 </varlistentry>
483
484 <varlistentry id="resolvectl">
485 <term><command>resolvectl</command></term>
486 <listitem>
487 <para>Sends control commands to the network name resolution
488 manager, or resolves domain names, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses,
489 DNS records, and services</para>
490 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd resolvectl">
491 <primary sortas="b-resolvectl">resolvectl</primary>
492 </indexterm>
493 </listitem>
494 </varlistentry>
495
496 <varlistentry id="runlevel">
497 <term><command>runlevel</command></term>
498 <listitem>
499 <para>Outputs the previous and the current run-level, as noted in the
500 last run-level record in <filename>/run/utmp</filename></para>
501 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd runlevel">
502 <primary sortas="b-runlevel">runlevel</primary>
503 </indexterm>
504 </listitem>
505 </varlistentry>
506
507 <varlistentry id="shutdown">
508 <term><command>shutdown</command></term>
509 <listitem>
510 <para>Brings the system down in a safe and secure manner, signaling
511 all processes and notifying all logged-in users</para>
512 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd shutdown">
513 <primary sortas="b-shutdown">shutdown</primary>
514 </indexterm>
515 </listitem>
516 </varlistentry>
517
518 <varlistentry id="systemctl">
519 <term><command>systemctl</command></term>
520 <listitem>
521 <para>Is used to introspect and control the state of the systemd system
522 and service manager</para>
523 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemctl">
524 <primary sortas="b-systemctl">systemctl</primary>
525 </indexterm>
526 </listitem>
527 </varlistentry>
528
529 <varlistentry id="systemd-ac-power">
530 <term><command>systemd-ac-power</command></term>
531 <listitem>
532 <para>Reports whether the system is connected to an external
533 power source.</para>
534 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-ac-power">
535 <primary sortas="b-systemd-ac-power">systemd-ac-power</primary>
536 </indexterm>
537 </listitem>
538 </varlistentry>
539
540 <varlistentry id="systemd-analyze">
541 <term><command>systemd-analyze</command></term>
542 <listitem>
543 <para>Is used to analyze system startup performance,
544 as well as identify troublesome systemd units</para>
545 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-analyze">
546 <primary sortas="b-systemd-analyze">systemd-analyze</primary>
547 </indexterm>
548 </listitem>
549 </varlistentry>
550
551 <varlistentry id="systemd-ask-password">
552 <term><command>systemd-ask-password</command></term>
553 <listitem>
554 <para>Is used to query a system password or passphrase from the user,
555 using a message specified on the Linux command line</para>
556 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-ask-password">
557 <primary sortas="b-systemd-ask-password">systemd-ask-password</primary>
558 </indexterm>
559 </listitem>
560 </varlistentry>
561
562 <varlistentry id="systemd-cat">
563 <term><command>systemd-cat</command></term>
564 <listitem>
565 <para>Is used to connect the STDOUT and STDERR outputs of a process
566 with the systemd journal
567 </para>
568 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cat">
569 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cat">systemd-cat</primary>
570 </indexterm>
571 </listitem>
572 </varlistentry>
573
574 <varlistentry id="systemd-cgls">
575 <term><command>systemd-cgls</command></term>
576 <listitem>
577 <para>Recursively shows the contents of the selected Linux control
578 group hierarchy in a tree</para>
579 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cgls">
580 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cgls">systemd-cgls</primary>
581 </indexterm>
582 </listitem>
583 </varlistentry>
584
585 <varlistentry id="systemd-cgtop">
586 <term><command>systemd-cgtop</command></term>
587 <listitem>
588 <para>Shows the top control groups of the local Linux control group
589 hierarchy, ordered by their CPU, memory and disk I/O loads</para>
590 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-cgtop">
591 <primary sortas="b-systemd-cgtop">systemd-cgtop</primary>
592 </indexterm>
593 </listitem>
594 </varlistentry>
595
596 <varlistentry id="systemd-creds">
597 <term><command>systemd-creds</command></term>
598 <listitem>
599 <para>Displays and processes credentials</para>
600 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-creds">
601 <primary sortas="b-systemd-creds">systemd-creds</primary>
602 </indexterm>
603 </listitem>
604 </varlistentry>
605
606 <varlistentry id="systemd-delta">
607 <term><command>systemd-delta</command></term>
608 <listitem>
609 <para>Is used to identify and compare configuration files in
610 <filename class="directory">/etc</filename> that override the defaults
611 in <filename class="directory">/usr</filename></para>
612 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-delta">
613 <primary sortas="b-systemd-delta">systemd-delta</primary>
614 </indexterm>
615 </listitem>
616 </varlistentry>
617
618 <varlistentry id="systemd-detect-virt">
619 <term><command>systemd-detect-virt</command></term>
620 <listitem>
621 <para>Detects whether the system is being run in a virtual
622 environment, and adjusts udev accordingly</para>
623 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-detect-virt">
624 <primary sortas="b-systemd-detect-virt">systemd-detect-virt</primary>
625 </indexterm>
626 </listitem>
627 </varlistentry>
628
629 <varlistentry id="systemd-dissect">
630 <term><command>systemd-dissect</command></term>
631 <listitem>
632 <para>Is used to inspect OS disk images</para>
633 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-dissect">
634 <primary sortas="b-systemd-dissect">systemd-dissect</primary>
635 </indexterm>
636 </listitem>
637 </varlistentry>
638
639 <varlistentry id="systemd-escape">
640 <term><command>systemd-escape</command></term>
641 <listitem>
642 <para>Is used to escape strings for inclusion in systemd unit
643 names</para>
644 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-escape">
645 <primary sortas="b-systemd-escape">systemd-escape</primary>
646 </indexterm>
647 </listitem>
648 </varlistentry>
649
650 <varlistentry id="systemd-hwdb">
651 <term><command>systemd-hwdb</command></term>
652 <listitem>
653 <para>Is used to manage the hardware database (hwdb)</para>
654 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-hwdb">
655 <primary sortas="b-systemd-hwdb">systemd-hwdb</primary>
656 </indexterm>
657 </listitem>
658 </varlistentry>
659
660 <varlistentry id="systemd-id128">
661 <term><command>systemd-id128</command></term>
662 <listitem>
663 <para>Generates and prints id128 (UUID) strings</para>
664 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-id128">
665 <primary sortas="b-systemd-id128">systemd-id128</primary>
666 </indexterm>
667 </listitem>
668 </varlistentry>
669
670 <varlistentry id="systemd-inhibit">
671 <term><command>systemd-inhibit</command></term>
672 <listitem>
673 <para>Is used to execute a program with a shutdown, sleep or idle
674 inhibitor lock taken, preventing an action such as a system shutdown
675 until the process is completed</para>
676 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-inhibit">
677 <primary sortas="b-systemd-inhibit">systemd-inhibit</primary>
678 </indexterm>
679 </listitem>
680 </varlistentry>
681
682 <varlistentry id="systemd-machine-id-setup">
683 <term><command>systemd-machine-id-setup</command></term>
684 <listitem>
685 <para>Is used by system installer tools to initialize the machine ID
686 stored in <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> at install time with a
687 randomly generated ID</para>
688 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-machine-id-setup">
689 <primary sortas="b-systemd-machine-id-setup">systemd-machine-id-setup</primary>
690 </indexterm>
691 </listitem>
692 </varlistentry>
693
694 <varlistentry id="systemd-mount">
695 <term><command>systemd-mount</command></term>
696 <listitem>
697 <para>Is used to temporarily mount or automount disks</para>
698 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-mount">
699 <primary sortas="b-systemd-mount">systemd-mount</primary>
700 </indexterm>
701 </listitem>
702 </varlistentry>
703
704 <varlistentry id="systemd-notify">
705 <term><command>systemd-notify</command></term>
706 <listitem>
707 <para>Is used by daemon scripts to notify the init system of status
708 changes</para>
709 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-notify">
710 <primary sortas="b-systemd-notify">systemd-notify</primary>
711 </indexterm>
712 </listitem>
713 </varlistentry>
714
715 <varlistentry id="systemd-nspawn">
716 <term><command>systemd-nspawn</command></term>
717 <listitem>
718 <para>Is used to run a command, or an entire OS, in a light-weight namespace
719 container</para>
720 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-nspawn">
721 <primary sortas="b-systemd-nspawn">systemd-nspawn</primary>
722 </indexterm>
723 </listitem>
724 </varlistentry>
725
726 <varlistentry id="systemd-path">
727 <term><command>systemd-path</command></term>
728 <listitem>
729 <para>Is used to query system and user paths</para>
730 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-path">
731 <primary sortas="b-systemd-path">systemd-path</primary>
732 </indexterm>
733 </listitem>
734 </varlistentry>
735
736 <varlistentry id="systemd-repart">
737 <term><command>systemd-repart</command></term>
738 <listitem>
739 <para>Is used to grow and add partitions to a partition table when
740 systemd is used with an OS image (e.g. a container)</para>
741 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-repart">
742 <primary sortas="b-systemd-repart">systemd-repart</primary>
743 </indexterm>
744 </listitem>
745 </varlistentry>
746
747 <varlistentry id="systemd-resolve">
748 <term><command>systemd-resolve</command></term>
749 <listitem>
750 <para>Is used to resolve domain names, IPV4 and IPv6 addresses, DNS
751 resource records, and services</para>
752 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-resolve">
753 <primary sortas="b-systemd-resolve">systemd-resolve</primary>
754 </indexterm>
755 </listitem>
756 </varlistentry>
757
758 <varlistentry id="systemd-run">
759 <term><command>systemd-run</command></term>
760 <listitem>
761 <para>Is used to create and start a transient .service or a .scope
762 unit and run the specified command in it; this is useful for
763 validating systemd units</para>
764 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-run">
765 <primary sortas="b-systemd-run">systemd-run</primary>
766 </indexterm>
767 </listitem>
768 </varlistentry>
769
770 <varlistentry id="systemd-socket-activate">
771 <term><command>systemd-socket-activate</command></term>
772 <listitem>
773 <para>Is used to listen on socket devices and launch a process upon
774 a successful connection to the socket</para>
775 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-socket-activate">
776 <primary sortas="b-systemd-socket-activate">systemd-socket-activate</primary>
777 </indexterm>
778 </listitem>
779 </varlistentry>
780
781 <varlistentry id="systemd-sysext">
782 <term><command>systemd-sysext</command></term>
783 <listitem>
784 <para>Activates system extension images</para>
785 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-sysext">
786 <primary sortas="b-systemd-sysext">systemd-sysext</primary>
787 </indexterm>
788 </listitem>
789 </varlistentry>
790
791 <varlistentry id="systemd-tmpfiles">
792 <term><command>systemd-tmpfiles</command></term>
793 <listitem>
794 <para>Creates, deletes, and cleans up volatile and temporary files and
795 directories, based on the configuration file format and location
796 specified in
797 <filename class="directory">tmpfiles.d</filename> directories</para>
798 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-tmpfiles">
799 <primary sortas="b-systemd-tmpfiles">systemd-tmpfiles</primary>
800 </indexterm>
801 </listitem>
802 </varlistentry>
803
804 <varlistentry id="systemd-umount">
805 <term><command>systemd-umount</command></term>
806 <listitem>
807 <para>Unmounts mount points</para>
808 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-umount">
809 <primary sortas="b-systemd-umount">systemd-umount</primary>
810 </indexterm>
811 </listitem>
812 </varlistentry>
813
814 <varlistentry id="systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">
815 <term><command>systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</command></term>
816 <listitem>
817 <para>Is used to list and/or process pending systemd password
818 requests</para>
819 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">
820 <primary sortas="b-systemd-tty-ask-password-agent">systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</primary>
821 </indexterm>
822 </listitem>
823 </varlistentry>
824
825 <varlistentry id="telinit">
826 <term><command>telinit</command></term>
827 <listitem>
828 <para>Tells <command>init</command> which run-level to change
829 to</para>
830 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd telinit">
831 <primary sortas="b-telinit">telinit</primary>
832 </indexterm>
833 </listitem>
834 </varlistentry>
835
836 <varlistentry id="timedatectl">
837 <term><command>timedatectl</command></term>
838 <listitem>
839 <para>Is used to query and change the system clock and its settings
840 </para>
841 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd timedatectl">
842 <primary sortas="b-timedatectl">timedatectl</primary>
843 </indexterm>
844 </listitem>
845 </varlistentry>
846
847 <varlistentry id="udevadm">
848 <term><command>udevadm</command></term>
849 <listitem>
850 <para>Is a generic udev administration tool which controls the udevd
851 daemon, provides info from the udev hardware database, monitors
852 uevents, waits for uevents to finish, tests udev configuration, and
853 triggers uevents for a given device</para>
854 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd udevadm">
855 <primary sortas="b-udevadm">udevadm</primary>
856 </indexterm>
857 </listitem>
858 </varlistentry>
859
860 <varlistentry id="libsystemd">
861 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsystemd</filename></term>
862 <listitem>
863 <para>Is the main systemd utility library</para>
864 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd libsystemd">
865 <primary sortas="c-libsystemd">libsystemd</primary>
866 </indexterm>
867 </listitem>
868 </varlistentry>
869
870 <varlistentry id="libudev">
871 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libudev</filename></term>
872 <listitem>
873 <para>Is a library to access Udev device information</para>
874 <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd libudev">
875 <primary sortas="c-libudev">libudev</primary>
876 </indexterm>
877 </listitem>
878 </varlistentry>
879
880 </variablelist>
881
882 </sect2>
883
884</sect1>
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