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1 | .Dd $Mdocdate$ |
| 2 | .Dt SYSTEMBSD 8 |
| 3 | .Os |
| 4 | .Sh NAME |
| 5 | .Nm systembsd |
| 6 | .Nd systemd compatibility layer |
| 7 | .\" .Sh SYNOPSIS |
| 8 | .\" .Nm systembsd |
| 9 | .Sh DESCRIPTION |
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10 | .Nm provides the functionality of hostnamed, localed, timedated and |
| 11 | (eventually) logind, four systemd daemons. |
| 12 | .Sh OVERVIEW |
| 13 | .Nm systembsd emulates the DBus behavior of several afforementioned |
| 14 | systemd daemons by exposing matching interfaces on the system bus. The |
| 15 | systembsd executables themselves are run dynamically, as a call to a |
| 16 | DBus method/property listed in a .service file will cause DBus to |
| 17 | execute the systembsd binary with proper permissions. The resulting |
| 18 | proccess, after a period of inactivity, will exit() safely. |
| 19 | .Pp |
| 20 | .Nm systembsd was written to provide compatibility for large codebases |
| 21 | (e.g. GNOME) that depend on Linux's systemd. Systemd is decidedly |
| 22 | incompatibile on *BSD systems. Systembsd does not intend to bring |
| 23 | systemd philosphy or practices to its target platform. |
| 24 | .Sh HOSTNAMED |
| 25 | Hostnamed manages setting the system's hostnames, which comprise of the |
| 26 | dynamic hostname via sethostname(3), the static hostname via |
| 27 | sethostname(3) and /etc/myname, and the pretty hostname, a UTF-8 string |
| 28 | contained in /etc/machine-info. |
| 29 | .Pp |
| 30 | Hostnamed also handles determining the physical machine's |
| 31 | characteristics, which it reciprocates through the Chassis and IconName |
| 32 | properties. IconName is a string following the XDG naming specification |
| 33 | and is set based off the information from the Chassis property. The |
| 34 | Chassis property is a string, one of "desktop", "laptop", "server", |
| 35 | "tablet", "handset", "vm" or "container". Chassis determination involves |
| 36 | analyzing hwctl, dmesg, and uname output. |
| 37 | .Pp |
| 38 | The remaining Kernel* properties and OperatingSystemPrettyName are |
| 39 | analogous to corresponding uname(3) calls. OperatingSystemCPEName is a |
| 40 | string following the Common Platform Enumeration specification. |
| 41 | .Sh LOCALED |
| 42 | Write this! |
| 43 | .Sh TIMEDATED |
| 44 | Write this! |
| 45 | .Sh LOGIND |
| 46 | Not implemented yet, work ongoing. |
| 47 | .Sh FILES |
| 48 | |
| 49 | .Sh EXIT STATUS |
| 50 | .Nm systemd-*d will return 0 on success, 1 on failure. |
| 51 | .Sh HISTORY |
| 52 | systembsd was written as a Google Summer of Code project in 2014, |
| 53 | OpenBSD's first year participating. |
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54 | .Br |
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55 | Mentored by Antoine Jacoutot and Landry Breuil. |
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56 | .Sh AUTHORS |
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57 | .Nm Ian Sutton <ian@kremlin.cc> |
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