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11 <title>Systemd Usage and Configuration</title>
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14 <primary sortas="e-Systemd">Systemd Customization</primary>
18 <title>Basic Configuration</title>
20 <para>The <filename>/etc/systemd/system.conf</filename> file contains a set
21 of options to control basic systemd operations. The default file has all
22 entries commented out with the default settings indicated. This file is
23 where the log level may be changed as well as some basic logging settings.
24 See <filename>systemd-system.conf(5)</filename> manual page for details on
25 each configuration option.</para>
30 <title>Disabling Screen Clearing at Boot Time</title>
32 <para>The normal behavior for systemd is to clear the screen at
33 the end of the boot sequence. If desired, this behavior may be
34 changed by running the following command:</para>
36 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d
38 cat > /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/noclear.conf << EOF
40 TTYVTDisallocate=no</literal>
41 EOF</userinput></screen>
43 <para>The boot messages can always be revied by using the
44 <userinput>journalctl -b</userinput> command as the root user.</para>
49 <title>Disabling tmpfs for /tmp</title>
51 <para>By default, <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename> is created as
52 a tmpfs. If this is not desired, it can be overridden by the following:</para>
54 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>ln -sfv /dev/null /etc/systemd/system/tmp.mount</userinput></screen>
56 <para>This is not necessary if there is a separate partition for
57 <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename> specified in
58 <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>.</para>
63 <title>Configuring Automatic File Creation and Deletion</title>
65 <para>There are several services that create or delete files or
69 <listitem><para>systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service</para></listitem>
70 <listitem><para>systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service</para></listitem>
71 <listitem><para>systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service</para></listitem>
74 <para>The system location for the configuration files is
75 <filename>/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/*.conf</filename>. The local
76 configuration files are in
77 <filename class="directory">/etc/tmpfiles.d</filename>. Files in
78 <filename class="directory">/etc/tmpfiles.d</filename> override
79 files with the same name in
80 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d</filename>. See
81 <filename>tmpfiles.d(5)</filename> manual page for file format
87 <title>Overriding Default Services Behavior</title>
89 <para>A systemd service contents can be overriden by creating a directory
90 and a configuration file in <filename
91 class="directory">/etc/systemd/system</filename>. For example:</para>
93 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv /etc/systemd/system/foobar.service.d
95 cat > /etc/systemd/system/foobar.service.d/foobar.conf << EOF
98 RestartSec=30</literal>
99 EOF</userinput></screen>
101 <para>See <filename>systemd.unit(5)</filename> manual page for more
102 information. After creating the configuration file, run
103 <userinput>systemctl daemon-reload</userinput> and <userinput>systemctl
104 restart foobar</userinput> to activate the changes to a service.</para>
109 <title>Debugging the Boot Sequence</title>
111 <para>There are several commands that can be used to help debug the systemd
112 boot process. Here are some examples:</para>
115 <listitem><para>systemctl list-units -t service [--all]</para></listitem>
116 <listitem><para>systemctl list-units -t target [--all]</para></listitem>
117 <listitem><para>systemctl show -p Wants multi-user.target</para></listitem>
118 <listitem><para>systemctl status sshd.service</para></listitem>