Names= is a source of errors, simply because alias names specified like
this only become relevant after a unit has been loaded but cannot be
used to load a unit.
Let's get rid of the confusion and drop this field. To establish alias
names peope should use symlinks, which have the the benefit of being
useful as key to load a unit, even though they are not taken into
account if unit names are listed but they haven't been explicitly
referenced before.
People should use systemd.pc if anything at all to determine these
directories, and people should not assume that the bus fields are part
of the supported API, so let's just drop this.
This makes sure that
systemctl status /home
is implicitly translated to:
systemctl status /home.mount
Similar, /dev/foobar becomes dev-foobar.device.
Also, all characters that cannot be part of a unit name are implicitly
escaped.
since the binaries share much of the same code and we better load only
one binary instead of two from disk at early boot let's merge the three
readahead binaries into one. This also allows us to drop a lot of
duplicated code.
Let's try to standardize a bit the RPM macros used for
installing/uninstalling services.
This only covers the non-SysV compat bits, since that tends to vary
widely between the various distros.
Usage:
Add %{?systemd_requires} to the header of the spec file. And then:
%post
%systemd_post foobar.service
%preun
%systemd_preun foobar.service
%postun
%systemd_postun foobar.service
And, instead of the latter, in case the service shall be restarted on updates:
%postun
%systemd_postun_restart foobar.service
online = logged in
active = logged in and session is in the fg
closing = nominally logged out but some left-over processes still around
Related to:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677556
Since we boot so fast now that gdm might get started before the
graphics drivers are properly loaded and probed we might end up
announcing seat0 to gdm before it has graphics capabilities. Which will
cause gdm/X11 cause to fail later on.
To fix this race, let's expose CanGraphical and CanTTY fields on all
seats, which clarify whether a seat is suitable for gdm resp, suitable
for text logins. gdm then needs to watch CanGraphical and spawn X11 on
it only if it is true.
This way:
USB graphics seats will expose CanGraphical=yes, CanTTY=no
Machines with no graphics drivers at all, but a text console:
CanGraphical=no, CanTTY=yes
Machines with CONFIG_VT turned off: CanGraphical=yes, CanTTY=no
And the most important case: seat0 where the graphics driver has not
been probed yet boot up with CanGraphical=no, CanTTY=yes first, which
then changes to CanGraphical=yes as soon as the probing is complete.
This takes handling of chassis power and sleep keys as well as the lid
switch over from acpid.
This logic is enabled by default for power and sleep keys, but not for
the lid switch.
If a graphical session is in the foreground no action is taken under the
assumption that the graphical session does this.
This also ensures that caps dropped from the bounding set are also
dropped from the inheritable set, to be extra-secure. Usually that should
change very little though as the inheritable set is empty for all our uses
anyway.
Checking the device major/minor is not a good idea. Let's replace this
with an explicit flag file, which we model after /etc/os-release and
call /etc/initrd-release.
If the inode nr for each file is available in the pack file we can
easily detect replaced files (like they result from package upgrades)
which we can then skip to readahead.
In some cases the main/control PID of a service can be outside of the
services cgroups (for example, if logind readjusts the processes'
cgroup). In order to clarify this for the user show the main/control PID
in the cgroup tree nonetheless, but mark them specially.
Previously, we were brutally and onconditionally killing all processes
in a service's cgroup before starting the service anew, in order to
ensure that StartPre lines cannot be misused to spawn long-running
processes.
On logind-less systems this has the effect that restarting sshd
necessarily calls all active ssh sessions, which is usually not
desirable.
With this patch control processes for a service are placed in a
sub-cgroup called "control/". When starting a service anew we simply
kill this cgroup, but not the main cgroup, in order to avoid killing any
long-running non-control processes from previous runs.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805942
gettys are nowadays mostly autospawned and hence usually subject to
being shut down on isolate requests, since they are no dependency of any
other unit. This is a bad idea if the user isolates between
multi-user.graphical and graphical.target, hence exclude them from the
isolation.
This has the effect that gettys no longer cleaned up when
emergency.target is isolated, which might actualy be considered a
feature, even though it is a change from previous behaviour...
Note that the one getty that really matters (the one on tty1) is still
removed when isolating to emergency.target since it conflicts with
emergency.service.
This adds minimal hardware watchdog support to PID 1. The idea is that
PID 1 supervises and watchdogs system services, while the hardware
watchdog is used to supervise PID 1.
This adds two hardware watchdog configuration options, for the runtime
watchdog and for a shutdown watchdog. The former is active during normal
operation, the latter only at reboots to ensure that if a clean reboot
times out we reboot nonetheless.
If the runtime watchdog is enabled PID 1 will automatically wake up at
half the configured interval and write to the watchdog daemon.
By default we enable the shutdown watchdog, but leave the runtime
watchdog disabled in order not to break independent hardware watchdog
daemons people might be using.
This is only the most basic hookup. If necessary we can later on hook
up the watchdog ping more closely with services deemed crucial.
This logic can be turned off by defining SD_JOURNAL_SUPPRESS_LOCATION
before including sd-journal.h.
This also saves/restores errno in all logging functions, in order to be
useful as logging calls without side-effects.
This also adds a couple of __unlikely__ around the early checks in the
logging calls, in order to minimize the runtime impact.
udisks2 doesn't use /media anymore, instead mounts removable media in a
user-private directory beneath /run. /media is hence mostly obsolete and
hence it makes little sense to continue to mount a tmpfs to it.
Distributions should consider dropping the mount point entirely since
nothing uses it anymore.
Let's make things a bit easier to type, drop the systemd- prefix for
journalctl and loginctl, but provide the old names for compat.
All systemd binaries are hence now prefixed with "systemd-" with the
exception of the three primary user interface binaries:
systemctl
loginctl
journalctl
For those three we do provide systemd-xyz names as well, via symlinks:
systemd-systemctl → systemctl
systemd-loginctl → loginctl
systemd-journalctl → journalctl
We do this only for the *primary* user tools, in order to avoid
unnecessary namespace problems. That means tools like systemd-notify
stay the way they are.
we need to make sure that configuration data we expose via the bus ends
up in using getting an assert(). Even though configuration data is only
parsed from trusted sources we should be more careful with what we read.
This is useful for inetd-style per-connection services, so that they
again can simply specify StandardOutput=socket to connect all three fds
to the socket.
Lennart Poettering