SYSTEMD-SYSV-GENERATOR(8)

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version 259.10 · 12 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ SYSTEMD-SYSV-GENERATOR ✨

the unit generator for SysV init scripts 🎀 — yep, that's the whole vibe of this page, and ngl it's a lil bit of a farewell tour. This is the section 8 manpage for systemd-sysv-generator, bestie. Let's get into it 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

/usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-sysv-generator

that's it. that's the path. she's just vibing in the generators directory 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Note: this component is deprecated and scheduled for removal. Please replace remaining SysV init scripts with native unit files. 😭

okay so first things first, she's deprecated and she's on the way out — so if you still have SysV init scripts lying around, the move is to swap them for native unit files. no cap. fr fr. 🫶

systemd-sysv-generator is a generator that makes wrapper .service units for System V init scripts in /etc/init.d/* — and it does this at boot, plus whenever the configuration of the system manager gets reloaded. That's the whole reason systemd(1) can support those old-school scripts similarly to native units. iconic behaviour, honestly ✨

The LSB headers in SysV init scripts get interpreted, and the ordering that the header specifies gets turned into dependencies between the generated unit and other units. The LSB facilities "$remote_fs", "$network", "$named", "$portmap", "$time" are all supported, and they get turned into dependencies on specific native systemd targets. Want the deets? See systemd.special(7) 👑

lowkey important: the compatibility is quite comprehensive but not 100%. For more details, go look at Compatibility with SysV — it's in the NOTES down below, iykyk 💜

also, systemd does not support SysV scripts as part of early boot, so all wrapper units are ordered after basic.target. periodt. no exceptions. 🚫

and finally: systemd-sysv-generator implements systemd.generator(7). so she plays by the generator rules 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

🎀 NOTES 🎀

  1. System V init https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit
  2. LSB headers http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.1.1/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html
  3. Compatibility with SysV https://systemd.io/INCOMPATIBILITIES

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 thanks for reading all the way to the bottom, you're literally the main character. this one's from systemd 259.10 — mwah, bye!! 👑✨

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