SYSTEMD(1) systemd SYSTEMD(1)
NAME
systemd, init - systemd system and service manager
SYNOPSIS
/lib/systemd/systemd [OPTIONS...]
init [OPTIONS...] {COMMAND}
DESCRIPTION
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux operating systems. When run as first process on boot (as PID 1), it acts as init system
that brings up and maintains userspace services.
For compatibility with SysV, if systemd is called as init and a PID that is not 1, it will execute telinit and pass all command line
arguments unmodified. That means init and telinit are mostly equivalent when invoked from normal login sessions. See telinit(8) for more
information.
When run as a system instance, systemd interprets the configuration file system.conf and the files in system.conf.d directories; when run
as a user instance, systemd interprets the configuration file user.conf and the files in user.conf.d directories. See systemd-
system.conf(5) for more information.
OPTIONS
The following options are understood:
--test
Determine startup sequence, dump it and exit. This is an option useful for debugging only.
--dump-configuration-items
Dump understood unit configuration items. This outputs a terse but complete list of configuration items understood in unit definition
files.
--unit=
Set default unit to activate on startup. If not specified, defaults to default.target.
--system, --user
For --system, tell systemd to run a system instance, even if the process ID is not 1, i.e. systemd is not run as init process. --user
does the opposite, running a user instance even if the process ID is 1. Normally, it should not be necessary to pass these options, as
systemd automatically detects the mode it is started in. These options are hence of little use except for debugging. Note that it is
not supported booting and maintaining a full system with systemd running in --system mode, but PID not 1. In practice, passing --system
explicitly is only useful in conjunction with --test.
--dump-core
Enable core dumping on crash. This switch has no effect when running as user instance. This setting may also be enabled during boot on
the kernel command line via the systemd.dump_core= option, see below.
--crash-vt=VT
Switch to a specific virtual console (VT) on crash. Takes a positive integer in the range 1-63, or a boolean argument. If an integer is
passed, selects which VT to switch to. If yes, the VT kernel messages are written to is selected. If no, no VT switch is attempted.
This switch has no effect when running as user instance. This setting may also be enabled during boot, on the kernel command line via
the systemd.crash_vt= option, see below.
--crash-shell
Run a shell on crash. This switch has no effect when running as user instance. This setting may also be enabled during boot, on the
kernel command line via the systemd.crash_shell= option, see below.
--crash-reboot
Automatically reboot the system on crash. This switch has no effect when running as user instance. This setting may also be enabled
during boot, on the kernel command line via the systemd.crash_reboot= option, see below.
--confirm-spawn
Ask for confirmation when spawning processes. This switch has no effect when run as user instance.
--show-status=
Takes a boolean argument or the special value auto. If on, terse unit status information is shown on the console during boot-up and
shutdown. If off, no such status information is shown. If set to auto behavior is similar to off, except that it is automatically
switched to on, as soon as the first unit failure or significant boot delay is encountered. This switch has no effect when invoked as
user instance. If specified, overrides both the kernel command line setting systemd.show_status= (see below) and the configuration file
option ShowStatus=, see systemd-system.conf(5).
--log-target=
Set log target. Argument must be one of console, journal, kmsg, journal-or-kmsg, null.
--log-level=
Set log level. As argument this accepts a numerical log level or the well-known syslog(3) symbolic names (lowercase): emerg, alert,
crit, err, warning, notice, info, debug.
--log-color=
Highlight important log messages. Argument is a boolean value. If the argument is omitted, it defaults to true.
--log-location=
Include code location in log messages. This is mostly relevant for debugging purposes. Argument is a boolean value. If the argument is
omitted it defaults to true.
--default-standard-output=, --default-standard-error=
Sets the default output or error output for all services and sockets, respectively. That is, controls the default for StandardOutput=
and StandardError= (see systemd.exec(5) for details). Takes one of inherit, null, tty, journal, journal+console, syslog,
syslog+console, kmsg, kmsg+console. If the argument is omitted --default-standard-output= defaults to journal and
--default-standard-error= to inherit.
--machine-id=
Override the machine-id set on the hard drive, useful for network booting or for containers. May not be set to all zeros.
--service-watchdogs=
Globally enable/disable all service watchdog timeouts and emergency actions. This setting may also be specified during boot, on the
kernel command line via the systemd.service_watchdogs= option, see below. Defaults to enabled.
-h, --help
Print a short help text and exit.
--version
Print a short version string and exit.
CONCEPTS
systemd provides a dependency system between various entities called "units" of 11 different types. Units encapsulate various objects that
are relevant for system boot-up and maintenance. The majority of units are configured in unit configuration files, whose syntax and basic
set of options is described in systemd.unit(5), however some are created automatically from other configuration, dynamically from system
state or programmatically at runtime. Units may be "active" (meaning started, bound, plugged in, ..., depending on the unit type, see
below), or "inactive" (meaning stopped, unbound, unplugged, ...), as well as in the process of being activated or deactivated, i.e. between
the two states (these states are called "activating", "deactivating"). A special "failed" state is available as well, which is very similar
to "inactive" and is entered when the service failed in some way (process returned error code on exit, or crashed, an operation timed out,
or after too many restarts). If this state is entered, the cause will be logged, for later reference. Note that the various unit types may
have a number of additional substates, which are mapped to the five generalized unit states described here.
The following unit types are available:
1. Service units, which start and control daemons and the processes they consist of. For details, see systemd.service(5).
2. Socket units, which encapsulate local IPC or network sockets in the system, useful for socket-based activation. For details about
socket units, see systemd.socket(5), for details on socket-based activation and other forms of activation, see daemon(7).
3. Target units are useful to group units, or provide well-known synchronization points during boot-up, see systemd.target(5).
4. Device units expose kernel devices in systemd and may be used to implement device-based activation. For details, see systemd.device(5).
5. Mount units control mount points in the file system, for details see systemd.mount(5).
6. Automount units provide automount capabilities, for on-demand mounting of file systems as well as parallelized boot-up. See
systemd.automount(5).
7. Timer units are useful for triggering activation of other units based on timers. You may find details in systemd.timer(5).
8. Swap units are very similar to mount units and encapsulate memory swap partitions or files of the operating system. They are described
in systemd.swap(5).
9. Path units may be used to activate other services when file system objects change or are modified. See systemd.path(5).
10. Slice units may be used to group units which manage system processes (such as service and scope units) in a hierarchical tree for
resource management purposes. See systemd.slice(5).
11. Scope units are similar to service units, but manage foreign processes instead of starting them as well. See systemd.scope(5).
Units are named as their configuration files. Some units have special semantics. A detailed list is available in systemd.special(7).
systemd knows various kinds of dependencies, including positive and negative requirement dependencies (i.e. Requires= and Conflicts=) as
well as ordering dependencies (After= and Before=). NB: ordering and requirement dependencies are orthogonal. If only a requirement
dependency exists between two units (e.g. foo.service requires bar.service), but no ordering dependency (e.g. foo.service after
bar.service) and both are requested to start, they will be started in parallel. It is a common pattern that both requirement and ordering
dependencies are placed between two units. Also note that the majority of dependencies are implicitly created and maintained by systemd. In
most cases, it should be unnecessary to declare additional dependencies manually, however it is possible to do this.
Application programs and units (via dependencies) may request state changes of units. In systemd, these requests are encapsulated as 'jobs'
and maintained in a job queue. Jobs may succeed or can fail, their execution is ordered based on the ordering dependencies of the units
they have been scheduled for.
On boot systemd activates the target unit default.target whose job is to activate on-boot services and other on-boot units by pulling them
in via dependencies. Usually, the unit name is just an alias (symlink) for either graphical.target (for fully-featured boots into the UI)
or multi-user.target (for limited console-only boots for use in embedded or server environments, or similar; a subset of graphical.target).
However, it is at the discretion of the administrator to configure it as an alias to any other target unit. See systemd.special(7) for
details about these target units.
Processes systemd spawns are placed in individual Linux control groups named after the unit which they belong to in the private systemd
hierarchy. (see cgroups.txt[1] for more information about control groups, or short "cgroups"). systemd uses this to effectively keep track
of processes. Control group information is maintained in the kernel, and is accessible via the file system hierarchy (beneath
/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/), or in tools such as systemd-cgls(1) or ps(1) (ps xawf -eo pid,user,cgroup,args is particularly useful to list all
processes and the systemd units they belong to.).
systemd is compatible with the SysV init system to a large degree: SysV init scripts are supported and simply read as an alternative
(though limited) configuration file format. The SysV /dev/initctl interface is provided, and compatibility implementations of the various
SysV client tools are available. In addition to that, various established Unix functionality such as /etc/fstab or the utmp database are
supported.
systemd has a minimal transaction system: if a unit is requested to start up or shut down it will add it and all its dependencies to a
temporary transaction. Then, it will verify if the transaction is consistent (i.e. whether the ordering of all units is cycle-free). If it
is not, systemd will try to fix it up, and removes non-essential jobs from the transaction that might remove the loop. Also, systemd tries
to suppress non-essential jobs in the transaction that would stop a running service. Finally it is checked whether the jobs of the
transaction contradict jobs that have already been queued, and optionally the transaction is aborted then. If all worked out and the
transaction is consistent and minimized in its impact it is merged with all already outstanding jobs and added to the run queue.
Effectively this means that before executing a requested operation, systemd will verify that it makes sense, fixing it if possible, and
only failing if it really cannot work.
systemd contains native implementations of various tasks that need to be executed as part of the boot process. For example, it sets the
hostname or configures the loopback network device. It also sets up and mounts various API file systems, such as /sys or /proc.
For more information about the concepts and ideas behind systemd, please refer to the Original Design Document[2].
Note that some but not all interfaces provided by systemd are covered by the Interface Stability Promise[3].
Units may be generated dynamically at boot and system manager reload time, for example based on other configuration files or parameters
passed on the kernel command line. For details, see systemd.generator(7).
Systems which invoke systemd in a container or initrd environment should implement the Container Interface[4] or initrd Interface[5]
specifications, respectively.
DIRECTORIES
System unit directories
The systemd system manager reads unit configuration from various directories. Packages that want to install unit files shall place them
in the directory returned by pkg-config systemd --variable=systemdsystemunitdir. Other directories checked are
/usr/local/lib/systemd/system and /lib/systemd/system. User configuration always takes precedence. pkg-config systemd
--variable=systemdsystemconfdir returns the path of the system configuration directory. Packages should alter the content of these
directories only with the enable and disable commands of the systemctl(1) tool. Full list of directories is provided in
systemd.unit(5).
User unit directories
Similar rules apply for the user unit directories. However, here the XDG Base Directory specification[6] is followed to find units.
Applications should place their unit files in the directory returned by pkg-config systemd --variable=systemduserunitdir. Global
configuration is done in the directory reported by pkg-config systemd --variable=systemduserconfdir. The enable and disable commands of
the systemctl(1) tool can handle both global (i.e. for all users) and private (for one user) enabling/disabling of units. Full list of
directories is provided in systemd.unit(5).
SysV init scripts directory
The location of the SysV init script directory varies between distributions. If systemd cannot find a native unit file for a requested
service, it will look for a SysV init script of the same name (with the .service suffix removed).
SysV runlevel link farm directory
The location of the SysV runlevel link farm directory varies between distributions. systemd will take the link farm into account when
figuring out whether a service shall be enabled. Note that a service unit with a native unit configuration file cannot be started by
activating it in the SysV runlevel link farm.
SIGNALS
SIGTERM
Upon receiving this signal the systemd system manager serializes its state, reexecutes itself and deserializes the saved state again.
This is mostly equivalent to systemctl daemon-reexec.
systemd user managers will start the exit.target unit when this signal is received. This is mostly equivalent to systemctl --user start
exit.target --job-mode=replace-irreversible.
SIGINT
Upon receiving this signal the systemd system manager will start the ctrl-alt-del.target unit. This is mostly equivalent to systemctl
start ctrl-alt-del.target --job-mode=replace-irreversible. If this signal is received more than 7 times per 2s, an immediate reboot is
triggered. Note that pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del on the console will trigger this signal. Hence, if a reboot is hanging, pressing
Ctrl-Alt-Del more than 7 times in 2s is a relatively safe way to trigger an immediate reboot.
systemd user managers treat this signal the same way as SIGTERM.
SIGWINCH
When this signal is received the systemd system manager will start the kbrequest.target unit. This is mostly equivalent to systemctl
start kbrequest.target.
This signal is ignored by systemd user managers.
SIGPWR
When this signal is received the systemd manager will start the sigpwr.target unit. This is mostly equivalent to systemctl start
sigpwr.target.
SIGUSR1
When this signal is received the systemd manager will try to reconnect to the D-Bus bus.
SIGUSR2
When this signal is received the systemd manager will log its complete state in human-readable form. The data logged is the same as
printed by systemd-analyze dump.
SIGHUP
Reloads the complete daemon configuration. This is mostly equivalent to systemctl daemon-reload.
SIGRTMIN+0
Enters default mode, starts the default.target unit. This is mostly equivalent to systemctl isolate default.target.
SIGRTMIN+1
Enters rescue mode, starts the rescue.target unit. This is mostly equivalent to systemctl isolate rescue.target.
SIGRTMIN+2
Enters emergency mode, starts the emergency.service unit. This is mostly equivalent to systemctl isolate emergency.service.
SIGRTMIN+3
Halts the machine, starts the halt.target unit. This is mostly equivalent to systemctl start halt.target
--job-mode=replace-irreversible.
SIGRTMIN+4
Powers off the machine, starts the poweroff.target unit. This is mostly equivalent to systemctl start poweroff.target
--job-mode=replace-irreversible.
SIGRTMIN+5
Reboots the machine, starts the reboot.target unit. This is mostly equivalent to systemctl start reboot.target
--job-mode=replace-irreversible.
SIGRTMIN+6
Reboots the machine via kexec, starts the kexec.target unit. This is mostly equivalent to systemctl start kexec.target
--job-mode=replace-irreversible.
SIGRTMIN+13
Immediately halts the machine.
SIGRTMIN+14
Immediately powers off the machine.
SIGRTMIN+15
Immediately reboots the machine.
SIGRTMIN+16
Immediately reboots the machine with kexec.
SIGRTMIN+20
Enables display of status messages on the console, as controlled via systemd.show_status=1 on the kernel command line.
SIGRTMIN+21
Disables display of status messages on the console, as controlled via systemd.show_status=0 on the kernel command line.
SIGRTMIN+22, SIGRTMIN+23
Sets the log level to "debug" (or "info" on SIGRTMIN+23), as controlled via systemd.log_level=debug (or systemd.log_level=info on
SIGRTMIN+23) on the kernel command line.
SIGRTMIN+24
Immediately exits the manager (only available for --user instances).
SIGRTMIN+26, SIGRTMIN+27, SIGRTMIN+28
Sets the log target to "journal-or-kmsg" (or "console" on SIGRTMIN+27, "kmsg" on SIGRTMIN+28), as controlled via
systemd.log_target=journal-or-kmsg (or systemd.log_target=console on SIGRTMIN+27 or systemd.log_target=kmsg on SIGRTMIN+28) on the
kernel command line.
ENVIRONMENT
$SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL
systemd reads the log level from this environment variable. This can be overridden with --log-level=.
$SYSTEMD_LOG_TARGET
systemd reads the log target from this environment variable. This can be overridden with --log-target=.
$SYSTEMD_LOG_COLOR
Controls whether systemd highlights important log messages. This can be overridden with --log-color=.
$SYSTEMD_LOG_LOCATION
Controls whether systemd prints the code location along with log messages. This can be overridden with --log-location=.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME, $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, $XDG_DATA_HOME, $XDG_DATA_DIRS
The systemd user manager uses these variables in accordance to the XDG Base Directory specification[6] to find its configuration.
$SYSTEMD_UNIT_PATH
Controls where systemd looks for unit files.
$SYSTEMD_SYSVINIT_PATH
Controls where systemd looks for SysV init scripts.
$SYSTEMD_SYSVRCND_PATH
Controls where systemd looks for SysV init script runlevel link farms.
$SYSTEMD_COLORS
The value must be a boolean. Controls whether colorized output should be generated. This can be specified to override the decision that
systemd makes based on $TERM and what the console is connected to.
$LISTEN_PID, $LISTEN_FDS, $LISTEN_FDNAMES
Set by systemd for supervised processes during socket-based activation. See sd_listen_fds(3) for more information.
$NOTIFY_SOCKET
Set by systemd for supervised processes for status and start-up completion notification. See sd_notify(3) for more information.
KERNEL COMMAND LINE
When run as system instance systemd parses a number of kernel command line arguments[7]:
systemd.unit=, rd.systemd.unit=
Overrides the unit to activate on boot. Defaults to default.target. This may be used to temporarily boot into a different boot unit,
for example rescue.target or emergency.service. See systemd.special(7) for details about these units. The option prefixed with "rd."
is honored only in the initial RAM disk (initrd), while the one that is not prefixed only in the main system.
systemd.dump_core
Takes a boolean argument or enables the option if specified without an argument. If enabled, the systemd manager (PID 1) dumps core
when it crashes. Otherwise, no core dump is created. Defaults to enabled.
systemd.crash_chvt
Takes a positive integer, or a boolean argument. Can be also specified without an argument, with the same effect as a positive boolean.
If a positive integer (in the range 1-63) is specified, the system manager (PID 1) will activate the specified virtual terminal (VT)
when it crashes. Defaults to disabled, meaning that no such switch is attempted. If set to enabled, the VT the kernel messages are
written to is selected.
systemd.crash_shell
Takes a boolean argument or enables the option if specified without an argument. If enabled, the system manager (PID 1) spawns a shell
when it crashes, after a 10s delay. Otherwise, no shell is spawned. Defaults to disabled, for security reasons, as the shell is not
protected by password authentication.
systemd.crash_reboot
Takes a boolean argument or enables the option if specified without an argument. If enabled, the system manager (PID 1) will reboot the
machine automatically when it crashes, after a 10s delay. Otherwise, the system will hang indefinitely. Defaults to disabled, in order
to avoid a reboot loop. If combined with systemd.crash_shell, the system is rebooted after the shell exits.
systemd.confirm_spawn
Takes a boolean argument or a path to the virtual console where the confirmation messages should be emitted. Can be also specified
without an argument, with the same effect as a positive boolean. If enabled, the system manager (PID 1) asks for confirmation when
spawning processes using /dev/console. If a path or a console name (such as "ttyS0") is provided, the virtual console pointed to by
this path or described by the give name will be used instead. Defaults to disabled.
systemd.service_watchdogs=
Takes a boolean argument. If disabled, all service runtime watchdogs (WatchdogSec=) and emergency actions (e.g. OnFailure= or
StartLimitAction=) are ignored by the system manager (PID 1); see systemd.service(5). Defaults to enabled, i.e. watchdogs and failure
actions are processed normally. The hardware watchdog is not affected by this option.
systemd.show_status
Takes a boolean argument or the constant auto. Can be also specified without an argument, with the same effect as a positive boolean.
If enabled, the systemd manager (PID 1) shows terse service status updates on the console during bootup. auto behaves like false until
a unit fails or there is a significant delay in boot. Defaults to enabled, unless quiet is passed as kernel command line option, in
which case it defaults to auto. If specified overrides the system manager configuration file option ShowStatus=, see systemd-
system.conf(5). However, the process command line option --show-status= takes precedence over both this kernel command line option and
the configuration file option.
systemd.log_target=, systemd.log_level=, systemd.log_location=, systemd.log_color
Controls log output, with the same effect as the $SYSTEMD_LOG_TARGET, $SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL, $SYSTEMD_LOG_LOCATION, $SYSTEMD_LOG_COLOR
environment variables described above. systemd.log_color can be specified without an argument, with the same effect as a positive
boolean.
systemd.default_standard_output=, systemd.default_standard_error=
Controls default standard output and error output for services, with the same effect as the --default-standard-output= and
--default-standard-error= command line arguments described above, respectively.
systemd.setenv=
Takes a string argument in the form VARIABLE=VALUE. May be used to set default environment variables to add to forked child processes.
May be used more than once to set multiple variables.
systemd.machine_id=
Takes a 32 character hex value to be used for setting the machine-id. Intended mostly for network booting where the same machine-id is
desired for every boot.
systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy
When specified without an argument or with a true argument, enables the usage of unified cgroup hierarchy[8] (a.k.a. cgroups-v2). When
specified with a false argument, fall back to hybrid or full legacy cgroup hierarchy.
If this option is not specified, the default behaviour is determined during compilation (the --with-default-hierarchy= option). If the
kernel does not support unified cgroup hierarchy, the legacy hierarchy will be used even if this option is specified.
systemd.legacy_systemd_cgroup_controller
Takes effect if the full unified cgroup hierarchy is not used (see previous option). When specified without an argument or with a true
argument, disables the use of "hybrid" cgroup hierarchy (i.e. a cgroups-v2 tree used for systemd, and legacy cgroup hierarchy[9],
a.k.a. cgroups-v1, for other controllers), and forces a full "legacy" mode. When specified with a false argument, enables the use of
"hybrid" hierarchy.
If this option is not specified, the default behaviour is determined during compilation (the --with-default-hierarchy= option). If the
kernel does not support unified cgroup hierarchy, the legacy hierarchy will be used even if this option is specified.
quiet
Turn off status output at boot, much like systemd.show_status=false would. Note that this option is also read by the kernel itself and
disables kernel log output. Passing this option hence turns off the usual output from both the system manager and the kernel.
debug
Turn on debugging output. This is equivalent to systemd.log_level=debug. Note that this option is also read by the kernel itself and
enables kernel debug output. Passing this option hence turns on the debug output from both the system manager and the kernel.
emergency, rd.emergency, -b
Boot into emergency mode. This is equivalent to systemd.unit=emergency.target or rd.systemd.unit=emergency.target, respectively, and
provided for compatibility reasons and to be easier to type.
rescue, rd.rescue, single, s, S, 1
Boot into rescue mode. This is equivalent to systemd.unit=rescue.target or rd.systemd.unit=rescue.target, respectively, and provided
for compatibility reasons and to be easier to type.
2, 3, 4, 5
Boot into the specified legacy SysV runlevel. These are equivalent to systemd.unit=runlevel2.target, systemd.unit=runlevel3.target,
systemd.unit=runlevel4.target, and systemd.unit=runlevel5.target, respectively, and provided for compatibility reasons and to be easier
to type.
locale.LANG=, locale.LANGUAGE=, locale.LC_CTYPE=, locale.LC_NUMERIC=, locale.LC_TIME=, locale.LC_COLLATE=, locale.LC_MONETARY=,
locale.LC_MESSAGES=, locale.LC_PAPER=, locale.LC_NAME=, locale.LC_ADDRESS=, locale.LC_TELEPHONE=, locale.LC_MEASUREMENT=,
locale.LC_IDENTIFICATION=
Set the system locale to use. This overrides the settings in /etc/locale.conf. For more information, see locale.conf(5) and locale(7).
For other kernel command line parameters understood by components of the core OS, please refer to kernel-command-line(7).
SOCKETS AND FIFOS
/run/systemd/notify
Daemon status notification socket. This is an AF_UNIX datagram socket and is used to implement the daemon notification logic as
implemented by sd_notify(3).
/run/systemd/private
Used internally as communication channel between systemctl(1) and the systemd process. This is an AF_UNIX stream socket. This interface
is private to systemd and should not be used in external projects.
/dev/initctl
Limited compatibility support for the SysV client interface, as implemented by the systemd-initctl.service unit. This is a named pipe
in the file system. This interface is obsolete and should not be used in new applications.
SEE ALSO
The systemd Homepage[10], systemd-system.conf(5), locale.conf(5), systemctl(1), journalctl(1), systemd-notify(1), daemon(7), sd-daemon(3),
systemd.unit(5), systemd.special(5), pkg-config(1), kernel-command-line(7), bootup(7), systemd.directives(7)
NOTES
1. cgroups.txt
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/cgroups.txt
2. Original Design Document
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
3. Interface Stability Promise
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfaceStabilityPromise
4. Container Interface
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ContainerInterface
5. initrd Interface
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InitrdInterface
6. XDG Base Directory specification
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
7. If run inside a Linux container these arguments may be passed as command line arguments to systemd itself, next to any of the command
line options listed in the Options section above. If run outside of Linux containers, these arguments are parsed from /proc/cmdline
instead.
8. unified cgroup hierarchy
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
9. legacy cgroup hierarchy
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/
10. systemd Homepage
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/
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