System and Service Manager systemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system. It provides a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system.

Starting with v197 systemd/udev will automatically assign predictable, stable network interface names for all local Ethernet, WLAN and WWAN interfaces. This is a departure from the …

Its primary purpose is for ordering things properly at shutdown: since the shutdown ordering of units in systemd is the reverse of the startup ordering, any unit that has After=network.target …

The systemd-boot EFI boot loader included in systemd is able to maintain and provide a random seed stored in the EFI System Partition (ESP) to the booted OS, which allows booting up with …

While we recommend usage of the systemd-coredump handler, it’s fully supported to use alternative coredump handlers instead. A similar implementation pattern is recommended.

Moreover, in systemd we should parse values the same way on all architectures and cannot expose off_t values over D-Bus. To avoid any confusion regarding conversion and ABIs, …

The LUKS2 volume must contain a LUKS2 token field of type systemd-homed. The JSON data of this token must have a record field, containing a string with base64-encoded data.

This allows placing encrypted credentials in the EFI System Partition, which are then picked up by systemd-stub and passed to the kernel and ultimately userspace where systemd receives them.

$ dlopen-notes --rpm-requires archive --rpm-recommends bpf /usr/lib64/systemd/libsystemd-shared-257.so Requires: libarchive.so.13()(64bit) Recommends: libbpf.so.1()(64bit)

This document describes the current format of systemd 246. The documented format is compatible with the format used in the first versions of the journal, but received various …