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introduction

quickstart, cheat sheet

systemd for users

theory of operation

  • initial system setup, manager loop
  • units
    • their types
    • dependencies
      • ordering
      • requirement
  • jobs
    • types, transactions, installed jobs
  • cgroups
  • socket activation

usage, detailed

  • everything about systemctl
  • overriding units, .include, exact symlink targets (non-)issue
  • systemd-delta
  • systemd-cgls
  • systemd-analyze

diagnosing problems

  • common issues
  • increasing verbosity
  • log targets
  • early shell
  • kbrequest
  • startup, shutdown

systemd for developers

writing units

  • organization of manpages: systemd.unit, systemd.exec, systemd.service, ...
  • good practices, note some bad ones
  • systemd-tmpfiles, ...

patching daemons

  • racy fork+exit
  • sd_notify()
  • sd_listen_fds()
  • password agent

the journal

  • what it is, how it works
  • journalctl

logind

  • what it is, how it works
  • loginctl

systemd-nspawn

  • example usage