<?xml version="1.0"?> <!--*-nxml-*--> <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % entities SYSTEM "custom-entities.ent" > %entities; ]> <!-- This file is part of systemd. Copyright 2014 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. --> <refentry id="systemd-sysv-generator" conditional="HAVE_SYSV_COMPAT"> <refentryinfo> <title>systemd-sysv-generator</title> <productname>systemd</productname> <authorgroup> <author> <contrib>Documentation</contrib> <firstname>Zbigniew</firstname> <surname>Jędrzejewski-Szmek</surname> <email>zbyszek@in.waw.pl</email> </author> </authorgroup> </refentryinfo> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>systemd-sysv-generator</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>8</manvolnum> </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname>systemd-sysv-generator</refname> <refpurpose>Unit generator for SysV init scripts</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <para><filename>&rootlibexecdir;/system-generators/systemd-sysv-generator</filename></para> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsect1> <title>Description</title> <para><filename>systemd-sysv-generator</filename> is a generator that creates wrapper .service units for <ulink url="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit">SysV init</ulink> scripts in <filename>/etc/init.d/*</filename> at boot and when configuration of the system manager is reloaded. This will allow <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> to support them similarly to native units.</para> <para><ulink url="http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.1.1/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html">LSB headers</ulink> in SysV init scripts are interpreted, and the ordering specified in the header is turned into dependencies between the generated unit and other units. LSB facilities <literal>$remote_fs</literal>, <literal>$network</literal>, <literal>$named</literal>, <literal>$portmap</literal>, <literal>$time</literal> are supported and will be turned into dependencies on specific native systemd targets. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more details.</para> <para>SysV runlevels have corresponding systemd targets (<filename>runlevel<replaceable>X</replaceable>.target</filename>). Wrapper unit that is generated will be wanted by those targets which correspond to runlevels for which the script is enabled.</para> <para><command>systemd</command> does not supports SysV scripts as part of early boot, so all wrapper units are ordered after <filename>basic.target</filename>.</para> <para><filename>systemd-sysv-generator</filename> implements <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>See Also</title> <para> <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.target</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> </para> </refsect1> </refentry>