Right now, the option only takes one of two possible values "inactive"
or "inactive-or-failed", the former being the default, and exposing same
behaviour as the status quo ante. If set to "inactive-or-failed" units
may be collected by the GC logic when in the "failed" state too.
This logic should be a nicer alternative to using the "-" modifier for
ExecStart= and friends, as the exit data is collected and logged about
and only removed when the GC comes along. This should be useful in
particular for per-connection socket-activated services, as well as
"systemd-run" command lines that shall leave no artifacts in the
system.
I was thinking about whether to expose this as a boolean, but opted for
an enum instead, as I have the suspicion other tweaks like this might be
a added later on, in which case we extend this setting instead of having
to add yet another one.
Also, let's add some documentation for the GC logic.
This augments %t which already resolves to the runtime directory root, and
should be useful for units that want to pass any of these paths in
command line arguments.
Example:
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mydaemon --datadir=%S/mydaemon
Why not expose a specifier resolving directly to the configured
state/runtime/cache/log dir? Three reasons:
1. Specifiers should be independent of configuration of the unit itself,
and StateDirectory= and friends are unit configuration. See
03fc9c723c and related work.
2. We permit multiple StateDirectory= values per unit, and it hence
wouldn't be clear which one is passed.
3. We already have %t for the runtime directory root, and we should
continue with the same scheme.
We settled on "filename" and "file system", so change a couple of places for
consistency. The exception is when there's an adjective before "file" that
binds more strongly then "name": "password file name", "output file name", etc.
Those cases are left intact.
The values for StartLimitAction are defined in `man systemd.unit`.
Don't send people to `man systemd.service` just to find they need to look
back in `man systemd.unit` again :).
This adds two options that are useful for user units. In particular, it
is useful to check ConditionUser=!0 to not start for the root user.
Closes: #5187
Unit.JobTimeoutSec starts when a job is enqueued in a transaction. The
introduced distinct Unit.JobRunningTimeoutSec starts only when the job starts
running (e.g. it groups all Exec* commands of a service or spans waiting for a
device period.)
Unit.JobRunningTimeoutSec is intended to be used by default instead of
Unit.JobTimeoutSec for device units where such behavior causes less confusion
(consider a job for a _netdev mount device, with this change the timeout will
start ticking only after the network is ready).
%c and %r rely on settings made in the unit files themselves and hence resolve
to different values depending on whether they are used before or after Slice=.
Let's simply deprecate them and drop them from the documentation, as that's not
really possible to fix. Moreover they are actually redundant, as the same
information may always be queried from /proc/self/cgroup and /proc/1/cgroup.
(Accurately speaking, %R is actually not broken like this as it is constant.
However, let's remove all cgroup-related specifiers at once, as it is also
redundant, and doesn't really make much sense alone.)
Various things don't work when we're running in a user namespace, but it's
pretty hard to reliably detect if that is true.
A function is added which looks at /proc/self/uid_map and returns false
if the default "0 0 UINT32_MAX" is found, and true if it finds anything else.
This misses the case where an 1:1 mapping with the full range was used, but
I don't know how to distinguish this case.
'systemd-detect-virt --private-users' is very similar to
'systemd-detect-virt --chroot', but we check for a user namespace instead.
Let's avoid the overly abbreviated "cgroups" terminology. Let's instead write:
"Linux Control Groups (cgroups)" is the long form wherever the term is
introduced in prose. Use "control groups" in the short form wherever the term
is used within brief explanations.
Follow-up to: #4381
In certain situations drop-ins in /usr/lib/ are useful, for example when one package
wants to modify the behaviour of another package, or the vendor wants to tweak some
upstream unit without patching.
Drop-ins in /run are useful for testing, and may also be created by systemd itself.
Follow-up for the discussion in #2103.
Also update the description of drop-ins in systemd.unit(5) to say that .d
directories, not .conf files, are in /etc/system/system, /run/systemd/system,
etc.
The man pages didn't ever mention that symlinks to units can be created, and what
exactly this means. Fix that omission, and disallow presets on alias names.
Let's move the enforcement of the per-unit start limit from unit.c into the
type-specific files again. For unit types that know a concept of "result" codes
this allows us to hook up the start limit condition to it with an explicit
result code. Also, this makes sure that the state checks in clal like
service_start() may be done before the start limit is checked, as the start
limit really should be checked last, right before everything has been verified
to be in order.
The generic start limit logic is left in unit.c, but the invocation of it is
moved into the per-type files, in the various xyz_start() functions, so that
they may place the check at the right location.
Note that this change drops the enforcement entirely from device, slice, target
and scope units, since these unit types generally may not fail activation, or
may only be activated a single time. This is also documented now.
Note that restores the "start-limit-hit" result code that existed before
6bf0f408e4 already in the service code. However,
it's not introduced for all units that have a result code concept.
Fixes#3166.
We generally follow the rule that for time settings we suffix the setting name
with "Sec" to indicate the default unit if none is specified. The only
exception was the rate limiting interval settings. Fix this, and keep the old
names for compatibility.
Do the same for journald's RateLimitInterval= setting
With #2564 unit start rate limiting was moved from after the condition checks
are to before they are made, in an attempt to fix#2467. This however resulted
in #2684. However, with a previous commit a concept of per socket unit trigger
rate limiting has been added, to fix#2467 more comprehensively, hence the
start limit can be moved after the condition checks again, thus fixing #2684.
Fixes: #2684
Let's make this more digestable to read by making the list of documented unit
file paths a bit shorter.
Specifically, let's drop references to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME, as
their default values are listed too already. Given that the fact that the XDG
basedir spec makes these paths configurable is probably not a strong point of
the spec, let's drop the reference to the env vars, and keep only the literal,
default paths for them in the list. Of course, we do support the full XDG
basedir spec in this regard, but it's one thing to implement it and another one
to recommend it by documenting it.
Replace "$HOME" by "~", because UNIX.
Lennart Poettering