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2015-11-13man: document our definition of a year and a monthLennart Poettering
Let's be accurate here, as this might be surprising to people.
2015-11-13util-lib: when parsing time values, accept "M" as short for "month"Lennart Poettering
nginx defines an uppercase "M" that way (in contrast to the lowercase "m" for "minute"), and it sounds like an OK logic to follow, so that we understand a true superset of time values nginx understands. http://nginx.org/en/docs/syntax.html
2015-11-13core: add new DefaultTasksMax= setting for system.confLennart Poettering
This allows initializing the TasksMax= setting of all units by default to some fixed value, instead of leaving it at infinity as before.
2015-11-13Merge pull request #1883 from evverx/man-systemd-service-sd-watchdog-enabledLennart Poettering
man: add note about sd_watchdog_enabled
2015-11-13man: add note about sd_watchdog_enabledEvgeny Vereshchagin
2015-11-13Merge pull request #1880 from fsateler/sysctl-docLennart Poettering
man: document systemd-sysctl arguments
2015-11-13man: document systemd-sysctl argumentsFelipe Sateler
2015-11-13Merge pull request #1879 from poettering/networkd-forwardTom Gundersen
stop managing per-interface IP forwarding settings
2015-11-13Merge pull request #1869 from poettering/kill-overridableMichal Schmidt
Remove support for RequiresOverridable= and RequisiteOverridable=
2015-11-13networkd: stop managing per-interface IP forwarding settingsLennart Poettering
As it turns out the kernel does not support per-interface IPv6 packet forwarding controls (unlike as it does for IPv4), but only supports a global option (#1597). Also, the current per-interface management of the setting isn't really useful, as you want it to propagate to at least one more interface than the one you configure it on. This created much grief (#1411, #1808). Hence, let's roll this logic back and simplify this again, so that we can expose the same behaviour on IPv4 and IPv6 and things start to work automatically again for most folks: if a network with this setting set is set up we propagate the setting into the global setting, but this is strictly one-way: we never reset it again, and we do nothing for network interfaces where this setting is not enabled. Fixes: #1808, #1597.
2015-11-12nspawn: add new --network-veth-extra= switch for defining additional veth linksLennart Poettering
The new switch operates like --network-veth, but may be specified multiple times (to define multiple link pairs) and allows flexible definition of the interface names. This is an independent reimplementation of #1678, but defines different semantics, keeping the behaviour completely independent of --network-veth. It also comes will full hook-up for .nspawn files, and the matching documentation.
2015-11-12core: remove support for RequiresOverridable= and RequisiteOverridable=Lennart Poettering
As discussed at systemd.conf 2015 and on also raised on the ML: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-November/034880.html This removes the two XyzOverridable= unit dependencies, that were basically never used, and do not enhance user experience in any way. Most folks looking for the functionality this provides probably opt for the "ignore-dependencies" job mode, and that's probably a good idea. Hence, let's simplify systemd's dependency engine and remove these two dependency types (and their inverses). The unit file parser and the dbus property parser will now redirect the settings/properties to result in an equivalent non-overridable dependency. In the case of the unit file parser we generate a warning, to inform the user. The dbus properties for this unit type stay available on the unit objects, but they are now hidden from usual introspection and will always return the empty list when queried. This should provide enough compatibility for the few unit files that actually ever made use of this.
2015-11-12core: simplify handling of %u, %U, %s and %h unit file specifiersLennart Poettering
Previously, the %u, %U, %s and %h specifiers would resolve to the user name, numeric user ID, shell and home directory of the user configured in the User= setting of a unit file, or the user of the manager instance if no User= setting was configured. That at least was the theory. In real-life this was not ever actually useful: - For the systemd --user instance it made no sense to ever set User=, since the instance runs in user context after all, and hence the privileges to change user IDs don't even exist. The four specifiers were actually not useful at all in this case. - For the systemd --system instance we did not allow any resolving that would require NSS. Hence, %s and %h were not supported, unless User=root was set, in which case they would be hardcoded to /bin/sh and /root, to avoid NSS. Then, %u would actually resolve to whatever was set with User=, but %U would only resolve to the numeric UID of that setting if the User= was specified in numeric form, or happened to be root (in which case 0 was hardcoded as mapping). Two of the specifiers are entirely useless in this case, one is realistically also useless, and one is pretty pointless. - Resolving of these settings would only happen if User= was actually set *before* the specifiers where resolved. This behaviour was undocumented and is really ugly, as specifiers should actually be considered something that applies to the whole file equally, independently of order... With this change, %u, %U, %s and %h are drastically simplified: they now always refer to the user that is running the service instance, and the user configured in the unit file is irrelevant. For the system instance of systemd this means they always resolve to "root", "0", "/bin/sh" and "/root", thus avoiding NSS. For the user instance, to the data for the specific user. The new behaviour is identical to the old behaviour in all --user cases and for all units that have no User= set (or set to "0" or "root").
2015-11-12man: improve the unit file enable state table a bitLennart Poettering
2015-11-12install: follow unit file symlinks in /usr, but not /etc when looking for ↵Lennart Poettering
[Install] data Some distributions use alias unit files via symlinks in /usr to cover for legacy service names. With this change we'll allow "systemctl enable" on such aliases. Previously, our rule was that symlinks are user configuration that "systemctl enable" + "systemctl disable" creates and removes, while unit files is where the instructions to do so are store. As a result of the rule we'd never read install information through symlinks, since that would mix enablement state with installation instructions. Now, the new rule is that only symlinks inside of /etc are configuration. Unit files, and symlinks in /usr are now valid for installation instructions. This patch is quite a rework of the whole install logic, and makes the following addional changes: - Adds a complete test "test-instal-root" that tests the install logic pretty comprehensively. - Never uses canonicalize_file_name(), because that's incompatible with operation relative to a specific root directory. - unit_file_get_state() is reworked to return a proper error, and returns the state in a call-by-ref parameter. This cleans up confusion between the enum type and errno-like errors. - The new logic puts a limit on how long to follow unit file symlinks: it will do so only for 64 steps at max. - The InstallContext object's fields are renamed to will_process and has_processed (will_install and has_installed) since they are also used for deinstallation and all kinds of other operations. - The root directory is always verified before use. - install.c is reordered to place the exported functions together. - Stricter rules are followed when traversing symlinks: the unit suffix must say identical, and it's not allowed to link between regular units and templated units. - Various modernizations - The "invalid" unit file state has been renamed to "bad", in order to avoid confusion between UNIT_FILE_INVALID and _UNIT_FILE_STATE_INVALID. Given that the state should normally not be seen and is not documented this should not be a problematic change. The new name is now documented however. Fixes #1375, #1718, #1706
2015-11-12Merge pull request #1863 from poettering/network-manDaniel Mack
man patch fix, and port journalctl --sync to use CLOCK_MONOTONIC timestamp files
2015-11-12core: remove SmackFileSystemRootLabel= againLennart Poettering
Apparently, util-linux' mount command implicitly drops the smack-related options anyway before passing them to the kernel, if the kernel doesn't know SMACK, hence there's no point in duplicating this in systemd. Fixes #1696
2015-11-12man: add more (and simpler examples) to network.link(5)Lennart Poettering
2015-11-11Merge pull request #1854 from poettering/unit-depsTom Gundersen
Dependency engine improvements
2015-11-11man: document automatic dependenciesLennart Poettering
For all units ensure there's an "Automatic Dependencies" section in the man page, and explain which dependencies are automatically added in all cases, and which ones are added on top if DefaultDependencies=yes is set. This is also done for systemd.exec(5), systemd.resource-control(5) and systemd.unit(5) as these pages describe common behaviour of various unit types.
2015-11-11execute: Add new PassEnvironment= directiveFilipe Brandenburger
This directive allows passing environment variables from the system manager to spawned services. Variables in the system manager can be set inside a container by passing `--set-env=...` options to systemd-spawn. Tested with an on-disk test.service unit. Tested using multiple variable names on a single line, with an empty setting to clear the current list of variables, with non-existing variables. Tested using `systemd-run -p PassEnvironment=VARNAME` to confirm it works with transient units. Confirmed that `systemctl show` will display the PassEnvironment settings. Checked that man pages are generated correctly. No regressions in `make check`.
2015-11-11networkd: IPv6 router discovery - follow IPv6AcceptRouterAdvertisemnt=Tom Gundersen
The previous behavior: When DHCPv6 was enabled, router discover was performed first, and then DHCPv6 was enabled only if the relevant flags were passed in the Router Advertisement message. Moreover, router discovery was performed even if AcceptRouterAdvertisements=false, moreover, even if router advertisements were accepted (by the kernel) the flags indicating that DHCPv6 should be performed were ignored. New behavior: If RouterAdvertisements are accepted, and either no routers are found, or an advertisement is received indicating DHCPv6 should be performed, the DHCPv6 client is started. Moreover, the DHCP option now truly enables the DHCPv6 client regardless of router discovery (though it will probably not be very useful to get a lease withotu any routes, this seems the more consistent approach). The recommended default setting should be to set DHCP=ipv4 and to leave IPv6AcceptRouterAdvertisements unset.
2015-11-11journalctl: make --rotate synchronous, tooLennart Poettering
Of course, ideally we'd just use normal synchronous bus calls, but this is out of the question as long as we rely on dbus-daemon (which logs to journald, and thus cannot use to avoid cyclic sync loops). Hence, instead, reuse the wait logic already implemented for --sync, and use a signal in one direction, and a mtime watch file for the reply.
2015-11-11journalctl: add new --sync switch for syncing the journal to diskLennart Poettering
With this new "--sync" switch we add a synchronous way to sync everything queued to disk, and return only after that's complete. This command gives the guarantee that anything queued before has hit the disk before the command returns. While we are at it, also improve the man pages and help text for journalctl a bit.
2015-11-11Merge pull request #1841 from keszybz/remove-snapshotTom Gundersen
Remove snapshot unit type
2015-11-10Remove snapshot unit typeZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Snapshots were never useful or used for anything. Many systemd developers that I spoke to at systemd.conf2015, didn't even know they existed, so it is fairly safe to assume that this type can be deleted without harm. The fundamental problem with snapshots is that the state of the system is dynamic, devices come and go, users log in and out, timers fire... and restoring all units to some state from the past would "undo" those changes, which isn't really possible. Tested by creating a snapshot, running the new binary, and checking that the transition did not cause errors, and the snapshot is gone, and snapshots cannot be created anymore. New systemctl says: Unknown operation snapshot. Old systemctl says: Failed to create snapshot: Support for snapshots has been removed. IgnoreOnSnaphost settings are warned about and ignored: Support for option IgnoreOnSnapshot= has been removed and it is ignored http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-November/034872.html
2015-11-10man: normalize indentation in sd-detect-virt(1)Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2015-11-10core: accept time units for time-based resource limitsLennart Poettering
Let's make sure "LimitCPU=30min" can be parsed properly, following the usual logic how we parse time values. Similar for LimitRTTIME=. While we are at it, extend a bit on the man page section about resource limits. Fixes: #1772
2015-11-10man: fix reference to description of time span syntaxLennart Poettering
2015-11-10Merge pull request #1825 from ssahani/ipv61-1Tom Gundersen
networkd: add support to configure IPv6 hop limit
2015-11-10Merge pull request #1830 from jsynacek/journalctl-timeTom Gundersen
man/journalctl: mention systemd.time(7) where appropriate
2015-11-10Merge pull request #1831 from keszybz/todo-trimmingTom Gundersen
Todo trimming
2015-11-10man: describe the reason why runlevels are obsoleteZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Put it at the top of the file, where it's hard to miss. Also add the mapping of runlevel → target because since it is now static. I'm not adding runlevel(7), because we do not want to make obsolete stuff even more prominent.
2015-11-10man: tweak description of machinectl showZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Also, machinectl status is anything but terse. Remove "terse".
2015-11-10man/journalctl: mention systemd.time(7) where appropriateJan Synacek
Original bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182661
2015-11-10man: add man for IPV6 hop limitSusant Sahani
2015-11-10Merge pull request #1790 from endocode/kayrus/fix_man_kernel_clLennart Poettering
Fixed kernel-command-line links
2015-11-09Merge pull request #1629 from ssahani/vxlanTom Gundersen
networkd: vxlan add option to set FDB entries
2015-11-09Merge pull request #1799 from jengelh/docLennart Poettering
doc: typo and ortho fixes
2015-11-09Merge pull request #1794 from karelzak/size_limitLennart Poettering
core: support IEC suffixes for RLIMIT stuff
2015-11-09detect-virt: add rkt app container runtimeIago López Galeiras
2015-11-06Fixed kernel-command-line linkskayrus
2015-11-06doc: use expanded forms for written styleJan Engelhardt
2015-11-06doc: correct orthography, word forms and missing/extraneous wordsJan Engelhardt
2015-11-06doc: correct punctuation and improve typography in documentationJan Engelhardt
2015-11-06core: support IEC suffixes for RLIMIT stuffKarel Zak
Let's make things more user-friendly and support for example LimitAS=16G rather than force users to always use LimitAS=16106127360. The change is relevant for options: [Default]Limit{FSIZE,DATA,STACK,CORE,RSS,AS,MEMLOCK,MSGQUEUE} The patch introduces config_parse_bytes_limit(), it's the same as config_parse_limit() but uses parse_size() tu support the suffixes. Addresses: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1772
2015-11-04systemctl: update documentation for --plain optionMark Theunissen
- Existing documentation did not mention that --plain omits the bullets and works on list-units and list-machines.
2015-11-03Merge pull request #1763 from endocode/kayrus/fix_man_chattrDaniel Mack
Fixed link to chattr man page
2015-11-03Fixed link to chattr man pagekayrus
2015-11-03man: add man for vxlan onfigures max number of FDB entriesSusant Sahani