CHANGE OF BEHAVIOUR — with this commit "f" line's behaviour is altered
to match what the documentation says: if an "argument" string is
specified it is written to the file only when the file didn't exist
before. Previously, it would be appended to the file each time
systemd-tmpfiles was invoked — which is not a particularly useful
behaviour as the tool is not idempotent then and the indicated files
grow without bounds each time the tool is invoked.
I did some spelunking whether this change in behaviour would break
things, but afaics nothing relies on the previous O_APPEND behaviour of
this line type, hence I think it's relatively safe to make "f" lines
work the way the docs say, rather than adding a new modifier for it or
so.
Triggered by:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-January/040171.html
With Type=notify services, EXTEND_TIMEOUT_USEC= messages will delay any startup/
runtime/shutdown timeouts.
A service that hasn't timed out, i.e, start time < TimeStartSec,
runtime < RuntimeMaxSec and stop time < TimeoutStopSec, may by sending
EXTEND_TIMEOUT_USEC=, allow the service to continue beyond the limit for
the execution phase (i.e TimeStartSec, RunTimeMaxSec and TimeoutStopSec).
EXTEND_TIMEOUT_USEC= must continue to be sent (in the same way as
WATCHDOG=1) within the time interval specified to continue to reprevent
the timeout from occuring.
Watchdog timeouts are also extended if a EXTEND_TIMEOUT_USEC is greater
than the remaining time on the watchdog counter.
Fixes#5868.
The code intentionally ignored unknown specifiers, treating them as text. This
needs to change because otherwise we can never add a new specifier in a backwards
compatible way. So just treat an unknown (potential) specifier as an error.
In principle this is a break of backwards compatibility, but the previous
behaviour was pretty much useless, since the expanded value could change every
time we add new specifiers, which we do all the time.
As a compromise for backwards compatibility, only fail on alphanumerical
characters. This should cover the most cases where an unescaped percent
character is used, like size=5% and such, which behave the same as before with
this patch. OTOH, this means that we will not be able to use non-alphanumerical
specifiers without breaking backwards compatibility again. I think that's an
acceptable compromise.
v2:
- add NEWS entry
v3:
- only fail on alphanumerical
This fixes various typos, removes some duplications, and adds a bit more
detail in the few places which are potential pitfalls for users.
Also change the way the paragraphs about new options begin, because having
a paragraph saying "Two new options have been added", and then bit lower
again "Two new options have been added" is confusing.
This creates a second private resolve.conf file which lists the stub resolver
and the resolved acquired search domains.
This runtime file should be used as a symlink target for /etc/resolv.conf such
that non-nss based applications can resolve search domains.
Fixes: #7009
This adds "systemd-resolve --reset-server-features" for explicitly
forgetting what we learnt. This might be useful for debugging
purposes, and to force systemd-resolved to restart its learning logic
for all DNS servers.
This removes the '@credentials' syscall set that was added in commit
v234-468-gcd0ddf6f75.
Most of these syscalls are so simple that we do not want to filter them.
They work on the current calling process, doing only read operations,
they do not have a deep kernel path.
The problem may only be in 'capget' syscall since it can query arbitrary
processes, and used to discover processes, however sending signal 0 to
arbitrary processes can be used to discover if a process exists or not.
It is unfortunate that Linux allows to query processes of different
users. Lets put it now in '@process' syscall set, and later we may add
it to a new '@basic-process' set that allows most basic process
operations.
Typically when DHCP server sets MTU it is a lower one. And a lower than usual
MTU is then thus required on said network to have operational networking. This
makes networkd's dhcp client to work in more similar way to other dhcp-clients
(e.g. isc-dhcp). In particular, in a cloud setting, without this default
instances have resulted in timing out talking to cloud metadata source and
failing to provision.
This does not change this default for the Annonymize code path.
They’re counterparts to the existing set-log-level and set-log-target
verbs, simply printing the current value to stdout. This makes it
slightly easier to temporarily change the log level and/or target and
then restore the old value(s).
This reverts commit 4f5e972279.
Building with gperf 3.0 works just fine; we had an autoconf check to
determine the correct data types, and this check was ported to meson.
Some .install plugins does not require that machine ID is set such as
20-grubby.install for Fedora and 50-depmod.install.
To support such plugins to run without valid machine-id, this commit
makes the following change:
* if /etc/machine-id is missing or empty, create temporary directory
and set its path to BOOT_DIR_ABS,
* run the .install helpers with KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID environment
variable that'd be empty if /etc/machine-id is missing or empty.
This may be useful for installing kernel for e.g. stateless systems
which initialize machine-id while booting the systems.
If we could not communicate with systemd-resolved, we would call into
libnss_dns. libnss_dns would return NOTFOUND for stuff like "localhost" and
other names resolved by nss-myhostname, which we would fall under the !UNAVAIL=
condition and cause resolution to fail. So the following recommended
configuration in nsswitch.conf would not work:
hosts: resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns myhostname
Remove the internal fallback code completely so that the fallback logic
can be configured in nsswitch.conf.
Tested with
hosts: resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] myhostname
and
hosts: resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns myhostname
Fixes#5742.
This doesn't add anything major, but moves some stuff around.
In particular changes which might require updates to the build
environment (new kernel requirements, cgroup stuff, dbus, etc)
are moved to the top, where it's most likely that people will
read them. In particular cgroup hierarchy changes are moved to the
top because they're most likely to be problematic.
Various items are grouped by subject where it's easy.
The description of list-jobs --after/--before was reversed.
Apparently if people are adventurous enought to run Go programs in udev
rules they might run into problems with MemoryDenyWriteExecute=.
I am pretty sure the best way out is for the toolchain generating
programs incompatible with W^X to be fixed, but this still deserves
documentation.
This was forgotten for the 232 release, hence add it now, retroactively.
See: #5400
Let's make sure we verify that all BindsTo= are in order before we actually go
and dispatch a start operation to a unit. Normally the job queue should already
have made sure all deps are in order, but this might not have been sufficient
in two cases: a) when the user changes deps during runtime and reloads the
daemon, and b) when the user placed BindsTo= dependencies without matching
After= dependencies, so that we don't actually wait for the bound to unit to be
up before upping also the binding unit.
See: #4725
"sushell" is a Fedora-specific concept, shipped as part of
"initscripts". We shouldn't actively search for it if we can avoid it.
Hence, lets now default to /bin/sh as debug shell on all systems, and
permit Fedora to override that for their RPMs via --with-debug-shell= at
configure time.
Previously it was "[Yes, Fail, Skip]" which is pretty misleading because it
suggests that the whole word needs to be entered instead of a single char.
Also this won't fit well when we'll extend the number of choices.
This patch addresses this by changing the choice hint with "[y, f, s – h for help]"
so it's now clear that a single letter has to be entered.
It also introduces a new choice 'h' which describes all possible choices since
a single letter can be not descriptive enough for new users.
It also allow to stick with the same hint string regardless of how
many choices we will support.
Before this patch we had:
- "no" which gives "failing execution" but the command is actually assumed as
succeed.
- "skip" which gives "skipping", but the command is assumed to have failed,
which ends up with "Failed to start ..." on the console.
Now we have:
- "fail" which gives "failing execution" and the command is indeed assumed as
failed.
- "skip" which gives "skipping execution" and the command is assumed as
succeed.
Unfortunately, github drops the original commiter when a PR is "squashed" (even
if it is only a single commit) and replaces it with some rubbish
github-specific user id. Thus, to make the contributors list somewhat useful,
update the .mailmap file and undo all the weirdness github applied there.
In this mode, messages from processes which are not part of the session
land in the main journal file, and only output of processes which are
properly part of the session land in the user's journal. This is
confusing, in particular because systemd-coredump runs outside of the
login session.
"Deprecate" SplitMode=login by removing it from documentation, to
discourage people from using it.
Lennart Poettering