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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
- <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
- %general-entities;
-]>
-
-<sect1 id="ch-config-systemd-custom" revision="systemd">
- <?dbhtml filename="systemd-custom.html"?>
-
- <title>Systemd Usage and Configuration</title>
-
- <indexterm zone="ch-config-systemd-custom">
- <primary sortas="e-Systemd">Systemd Customization</primary>
- </indexterm>
-
- <sect2>
- <title>Basic Configuration</title>
-
- <para>The <filename>/etc/systemd/system.conf</filename> file contains a set
- of options to control basic systemd operations. The default file has all
- entries commented out with the default settings indicated. This file is
- where the log level may be changed as well as some basic logging settings.
- See the <filename>systemd-system.conf(5)</filename> manual page for details
- on each configuration option.</para>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2>
- <title>Disabling Screen Clearing at Boot Time</title>
-
- <para>The normal behavior for systemd is to clear the screen at
- the end of the boot sequence. If desired, this behavior may be
- changed by running the following command:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d
-
-cat &gt; /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/noclear.conf &lt;&lt; EOF
-<literal>[Service]
-TTYVTDisallocate=no</literal>
-EOF</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>The boot messages can always be reviewed by using the
- <userinput>journalctl -b</userinput> command as the root user.</para>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2>
- <title>Disabling tmpfs for /tmp</title>
-
- <para>By default, <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename> is created as
- a tmpfs. If this is not desired, it can be overridden by the following:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>ln -sfv /dev/null /etc/systemd/system/tmp.mount</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Alternatively, if a a separate partition for
- <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename> is desired, specify that
- partition in an <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> entry.</para>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- Do not create the symbolic link above if a separate partition is used
- for <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename>. This will prevent the
- root file system (/) from being remounted r/w and make the system
- unusable when booted.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2>
- <title>Configuring Automatic File Creation and Deletion</title>
-
- <para>There are several services that create or delete files or
- directories:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>The system location for the configuration files is
- <filename>/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/*.conf</filename>. The local
- configuration files are in
- <filename class="directory">/etc/tmpfiles.d</filename>. Files in
- <filename class="directory">/etc/tmpfiles.d</filename> override
- files with the same name in
- <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d</filename>. See
- <filename>tmpfiles.d(5)</filename> manual page for file format
- details.</para>
-
- <para>
- Note that the syntax for the
- <filename>/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/*.conf</filename> files can be
- confusing. For example, the default deletion of files in the /tmp directory
- is located in <filename>/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf</filename> with
- the line:
-
-<screen role="nodump">q /tmp 1777 root root 10d</screen>
-
- The type field, q, discusses creating a subvolume with quotas which
- is really only applicable to btrfs filesystems. It references type v
- which in turn references type d (directory). This then creates the
- specified directory if is is not present and adjusts the permissions
- and ownership as specified. Contents of the directory will be
- subject to time based cleanup if the age argument is specified.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If the default parameters are not desired, then the file should
- be copied to <filename class="directory">/etc/tmpfiles.d</filename>
- and edited as desired. For example:
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -p /etc/tmpfiles.d
-cp /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf /etc/tmpfiles.d</userinput></screen>
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2>
- <title>Overriding Default Services Behavior</title>
-
- <para>The parameter of a unit can be overriden by creating a directory
- and a configuration file in <filename
- class="directory">/etc/systemd/system</filename>. For example:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv /etc/systemd/system/foobar.service.d
-
-cat > /etc/systemd/system/foobar.service.d/foobar.conf &lt;&lt; EOF
-<literal>[Service]
-Restart=always
-RestartSec=30</literal>
-EOF</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>See <filename>systemd.unit(5)</filename> manual page for more
- information. After creating the configuration file, run
- <userinput>systemctl daemon-reload</userinput> and <userinput>systemctl
- restart foobar</userinput> to activate the changes to a service.</para>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2>
- <title>Debugging the Boot Sequence</title>
-
- <para>Rather than plain shell scripts used in SysVinit or BSD style init
- systems, systemd uses a unified format for different types of startup
- files (or units). The command <command>systemctl</command> is used to
- enable, disable, control state, and obtain status of unit files. Here
- are some examples of frequently used commands:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><command>systemctl list-units -t <replaceable>&lt;service&gt;</replaceable> [--all]</command>:
- lists loaded unit files of type service.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><command>systemctl list-units -t <replaceable>&lt;target&gt;</replaceable> [--all]</command>:
- lists loaded unit files of type target.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><command>systemctl show -p Wants <replaceable>&lt;multi-user.target&gt;</replaceable></command>:
- shows all units that depend on the multi-user target. Targets are
- special unit files that are anogalous to runlevels under
- SysVinit.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><command>systemctl status <replaceable>&lt;servicename.service&gt;</replaceable></command>:
- shows the status of the servicename service. The .service extension
- can be omitted if there are no other unit files with the same name,
- such as .socket files (which create a listening socket that provides
- similar functionality to inetd/xinetd).</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2>
- <title>Working with the Systemd Journal</title>
-
- <para>Logging on a system booted with systemd is handled with
- systemd-journald (by default), rather than a typical unix syslog daemon.
- You can also add a normal syslog daemon and have both work side by
- side if desired. The systemd-journald program stores journal entries in a
- binary format rather than a plain text log file. To assist with
- parsing the file, the command <command>journalctl</command> is provided.
- Here are some examples of frequently used commands:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><command>journalctl -r</command>: shows all contents of the
- journal in reverse chronological order.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><command>journalctl -u <replaceable>UNIT</replaceable></command>:
- shows the journal entries associated with the specified UNIT
- file.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><command>journalctl -b[=ID] -r</command>: shows the journal
- entries since last successful boot (or for boot ID) in reverse
- chronological order.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><command>journalctl -f</command>: povides functionality similar
- to tail -f (follow).</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2>
- <title>Working with Core Dumps</title>
-
- <para>Core dumps are useful to debug crashed programs, especially
- when a daemon process crashes. On systemd booted systems the core
- dumping is handled by <command>systemd-coredump</command>. It will
- log the core dump into the journal and store the core dump itself in
- <filename class="directory">/var/lib/systemd/coredump</filename>.
- To retrieve and process core dumps, <command>coredumpctl</command>
- tool is provided. Here are some examples of frequently used commands:
- </para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><command>coredumpctl -r</command>: lists all core dumps in
- reversed chronological order.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><command>coredumpctl -1 info</command>: show the information
- of the last core dump.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><command>coredumpctl -1 debug</command>: load the last core
- dump into <ulink url="&blfs-book;general/gdb.html">GDB</ulink>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>Core dumps may use a lot of disk space. The maximum disk space
- used by core dumps can be limited by creating a configuration file in
- <filename class="directory">/etc/systemd/coredump.conf.d</filename>.
- For example:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv /etc/systemd/coredump.conf.d
-
-cat &gt; /etc/systemd/coredump.conf.d/maxuse.conf &lt;&lt; EOF
-<literal>[Coredump]
-MaxUse=5G</literal>
-EOF</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>See <filename>systemd-coredump(8)</filename>,
- <filename>coredumpctl(1)</filename>, and
- <filename>coredump.conf.d(5)</filename> manual pages for more
- information.</para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2>
- <title>Long Running Processes</title>
-
- <para>Beginning with systemd-230, all user processes are killed when a user
- session is ended, even if nohup is used, or the process uses the
- <function>daemon()</function> or <function>setsid()</function> functions.
- This is a deliberate change from a historically permissive environment to a
- more restrictive one. The new behavior may cause issues if you depend on
- long running programs (e.g., <command>screen</command> or
- <command>tmux</command>) to remain active after ending your user session.
- There are three ways to enable lingering processes to remain after a user
- session is ended.</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Enable process lingering for only selected users</emphasis>:
- Normal users have permission to enable process lingering
- with the command <command>loginctl enable-linger</command> for their
- own user. System administrators can use the same command with a
- <parameter>user</parameter> argument to enable for a user. That user
- can then use the <command>systemd-run</command> command to start
- long running processes. For example: <command>systemd-run --scope
- --user /usr/bin/screen</command>. If you enable lingering for your
- user, the user@.service will remain even after all login sessions are
- closed, and will automatically start at system boot. This has the
- advantage of explicitly allowing and disallowing processes to run
- after the user session has ended, but breaks backwards compatibility
- with tools like <command>nohup</command> and utilities that use
- <function>deamon()</function>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Enable system-wide process lingering</emphasis>:
- You can set <parameter>KillUserProcesses=no</parameter> in
- <filename>/etc/systemd/logind.conf</filename> to enable process lingering
- globally for all users. This has the benefit of leaving the old
- method available to all users at the expense of explicit control.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Disable at build-time</emphasis>: You can enable
- lingering by default while building systemd by adding the switch
- <parameter>-Ddefault-kill-user-processes=false</parameter> to the
- <command>meson</command> command for systemd. This completely
- disables the ability of systemd to kill user processes at session
- end.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </sect2>
-
-</sect1>