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systemd System and Service Manager
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AUTHOR:
Lennart Poettering
Kay Sievers
...and many others
LICENSE:
LGPLv2.1+ for all code
- except sd-daemon.[ch] and sd-readahead.[ch] which are MIT
- except src/udev/ which is GPLv2.0+
REQUIREMENTS:
Linux kernel >= 2.6.39
with devtmpfs
with cgroups (but it's OK to disable all controllers)
optional but strongly recommended: autofs4, ipv6
dbus >= 1.4.0
libcap
libblkid >= 2.20 (from util-linux) (optional)
libkmod >= 5 (optional)
PAM >= 1.1.2 (optional)
libcryptsetup (optional)
libaudit (optional)
libacl (optional)
libattr (optional)
libselinux (optional)
liblzma (optional)
tcpwrappers (optional)
libgcrypt (optional)
libqrencode (optional)
libmicrohttpd (optional)
libpython (optional)
make, gcc, and similar tools
During runtime you need the following additional dependencies:
util-linux >= v2.19 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s)
sulogin (from util-linux >= 2.22 or sysvinit-tools, optional but recommended)
dracut (optional)
PolicyKit (optional)
For systmed-bootchart a kernel with procfs support and several
proc output options enabled is required:
CONFIG_PROC_FS
CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
When building from git you need the following additional dependencies:
docbook-xsl
xsltproc
automake
autoconf
libtool
intltool
gperf
gtkdocize (optional)
python (optional)
When systemd-hostnamed is used it is strongly recommended to
install nss-myhostname to ensure that in a world of
dynamically changing hostnames the hostname stays resolvable
under all circumstances. In fact, systemd-hostnamed will warn
if nss-myhostname is not installed.
Note that D-Bus can link against libsystemd-login.so, which
results in a cyclic build dependency. To accommodate for this
please build D-Bus without systemd first, then build systemd,
then rebuild D-Bus with systemd support.
WARNINGS:
systemd will warn you during boot if /etc/mtab is not a
symlink to /proc/mounts. Please ensure that /etc/mtab is a
proper symlink.
systemd will warn you during boot if /usr is on a different
file system than /. While in systemd itself very little will
break if /usr is on a separate partition many of its
dependencies very likely will break sooner or later in one
form or another. For example udev rules tend to refer to
binaries in /usr, binaries that link to libraries in /usr or
binaries that refer to data files in /usr. Since these
breakages are not always directly visible systemd will warn
about this, since this kind of file system setup is not really
supported anymore by the basic set of Linux OS components.
For more information on this issue consult
To run systemd under valgrind, compile with VALGRIND defined
(e.g. ./configure CPPFLAGS='... -DVALGRIND=1'). Otherwise,
false positives will be triggered by code which violates
some rules but is actually safe.
ENGINEERING AND CONSULTING SERVICES:
ProFUSION <http://profusion.mobi> offers professional
engineering and consulting services for systemd for embedded
and other use. Please contact Gustavo Barbieri
<barbieri@profusion.mobi> for more information.
Disclaimer: This notice is not a recommendation or official
endorsement. However, ProFUSION's upstream work has been very
beneficial for the systemd project.