Without this requirement, if proxy-to-nginx.socket was down, and the sysadmin
were to do:
systemctl start proxy-to-nginx.service
then the service would come up without a configured socket, which doesn't make
sense. Normally this isn't how we expect a socket-activated service to start,
but it's possible for an admin to do this (if the .socket were already running,
the systemd-socket-proxyd process will start effectively idle). But the
.service shouldn't end up in a broken state if the .socket isn't already
listening.
Adding the explicit Requires: should ensure that an admin with this
configuration state can't accidentally break their system.
The long man page paragraph got it right: the tool is for escaping systemd unit
names, not just system unit names. Also fix the short man page paragraph
and the --help text.
Follow-up for 303608c1bc
rescue.target does not work well, and we don't have a suitable emergency
shell unit that can be started on existing systems right now. So let's just
remove the recommendation for now.
Fixes#6451.
Since busname units are only useful with kdbus, they weren't actively
used. This was dead code, only compile-tested. If busname units are
ever added back, it'll be cleaner to start from scratch (possibly reverting
parts of this patch).
This introduces {State,Cache,Log,Configuration}Directory= those are
similar to RuntimeDirectory=. They create the directories under
/var/lib, /var/cache/, /var/log, or /etc, respectively, with the mode
specified in {State,Cache,Log,Configuration}DirectoryMode=.
This also fixes#6391.
This has a long history; see see 5261ba9018
which originally introduced the behavior. Unfortunately that commit
doesn't include any rationale, but IIRC the basic issue is that
systemd wants to model the real mount state as units, and symlinks
make canonicalization much more difficult.
At the same time, on a RHEL6 system (upstart), one can make e.g. `/home` a
symlink, and things work as well as they always did; but one doesn't have
access to the sophistication of mount units (dependencies, introspection, etc.)
Supporting symlinks here will hence make it easier for people to do upgrades to
RHEL7 and beyond.
The `/home` as symlink case also appears prominently for OSTree; see
https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual/adapting-existing/
Further work has landed in the nspawn case for this; see e.g.
d944dc9553
A basic limitation with doing this in the fstab generator (and that I hit while
doing some testing) is that we obviously can't chase symlinks into mounts,
since the generator runs early before mounts. Or at least - doing so would
require multiple passes over the fstab data (as well as looking at existing
mount units), and potentially doing multi-phase generation. I'm not sure it's
worth doing that without a real world use case. For now, this will fix at least
the OSTree + `/home` <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382873> case
mentioned above, and in general anyone who for whatever reason has symlinks in
their `/etc/fstab`.
When "bg" is specified for NFS mounts, and if the server is
not accessible, two behaviors are possible depending on networking
details.
If a definitive error is received, such a EHOSTUNREACH or ECONNREFUSED,
mount.nfs will fork and continue in the background, while /bin/mount
will report success.
If no definitive error is reported but the connection times out
instead, then the mount.nfs timeout will normally be longer than the
systemd.mount timeout, so mount.nfs will be killed by systemd.
In the first case the mount has appeared to succeed even though
it hasn't. This can be confusing. Also the background mount.nfs
will never get cleaned up, even if the mount unit is stopped.
In the second case, mount.nfs is killed early and so the mount will
not complete when the server comes back.
Neither of these are ideal.
This patch modifies the options when an NFS bg mount is detected to
force an "fg" mount, but retain the default "retry" time of 10000
minutes that applies to "bg" mounts.
It also imposes "nofail" behaviour and sets the TimeoutSec for the
mount to "infinity" so the retry= time is allowed to complete.
This provides near-identical behaviour to an NFS bg mount started directly
by "mount -a". The only difference is that systemd will not wait for
the first mount attempt, while "mount -a" will.
Fixes#6046
Fixes#295.
(We cannot add a comment to either of those files because they are documented
to "only support variable assignments", so it's better to add an explanation
in the man page instead.)
This makes `systemd-umount` or `systemd-mount -u` support unmounting
loop devices by the corresponding backing files, like
`systemd-mount --umount /tmp/foo.img /tmp/bar.img`
Fixes#6206.
Previously, only when --register=yes was set (the default) the invoked
container would get its own scope, created by machined on behalf of
nspawn. With this change if --register=no is set nspawn will still get
its own scope (which is a good thing, so that --slice= and --property=
take effect), but this is not done through machined but by registering a
scope unit directly in PID 1.
Summary:
--register=yes → allocate a new scope through machined (the default)
--register=yes --keep-unit → use the unit we are already running in an register with machined
--register=no → allocate a new scope directly, but no machined
--register=no --keep-unit → do not allocate nor register anything
Fixes: #5823
This makes systemd-umount (or systemd-mount -u) supports multiple arguments
which can be path, device, or fstab style node name, like
`systemd-umount /path/to/umount /dev/sda1 UUID=xxxxxx-xxxx LABEL=xxxxx`.
C.f. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/5235#issuecomment-277731314.
Jouke Witteveen