The PTY approach caused isatty() to return true for services using
the log directive, triggering programs like fprintd (using glib) to
emit ANSI escape codes and other TTY-specific formatting in syslog.
Using a standard pipe ensures isatty() correctly returns false, so
programs produce plain text output suitable for logging.
For services that require line-buffered output, users can wrap the
command with `stdbuf -oL` as documented in doc/config/logging.md.
Fixes#455
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
Implement Linux capability support for services, allowing them to run
with minimal required privileges instead of running as root. This uses
the modern IAB (Inheritable, Ambient, Bounding) API from libcap.
All run/tasks must complete before Finit moves to runlevel 2. This
critical piece of information has mysteriously been missing from the
documentation since the start.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
This change introduces two new states for the big Finit state machine:
runlevel-clean and reload-clean. Here Finit now waits for any post or
cleanup script to finish before returning OK to the initctl command.
Additionally, the service state machine has been updated to ensure a
run/task/sysv/service calls any post or cleanup script before they are
removed. A new 'dead' state for svc_t is introduced which any removed
svc_t ends up in now instead of becing collected from 'halted' state.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
Add cleanup:script support, runs at service removal
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
Syntax:
[pre|post|ready]:[0-3600,]/path/to/script
Description:
Before this patch all pre/post/ready scripts used the global kill
delay as timeout. After this patch it is possible to disable the
timeout as well as set a timeout >60, which is max kill delay.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
This change expands the readiness notification system in Finit with the
native 'pid' style, which will remain the default readiness in Finit 4.x
For systems that want to transition to Finit 5.x early, a global option
to set 'readiness none' in /etc/finit.conf, has been added. This change
the service default notification mode to 'notify:none', which can also
be set by Finit 4.x ('readiness pid') for select services.
Fixes#386.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
This odd little feature makes it possible to declare run/tasks with a
condition that does not block Finit transitioning from bootstrap to the
next runlevel.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
This adds a new function conf_save_service() replacing service_register() for
plugins and bundled services like watchdogd, keventd, runparts, etc.
The benefits to this change are several:
- Plugin/Bundled services no longer risk starting before udev or other
critical services/task have started
- Definitions can be overridden by an administrator (see docs)
- Increases visibility (user: where are all these services coming from?)
Previously the origin (file the service was loaded from) was NULL.
- Adds another level of extensibility to Finit
The most notable change is that dbus is no longer started before udevd.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
This change opens up the runlevel change API from bootstrap. The twist
is that the change is only queued, i.e., the call `initctl runlevel 9`
during bootstrap only changes the configured runlevel to go to after
bootstrap has completed.
Effectively, this change allows overriding the `runlevel` directive in
/etc/finit.conf without having to change the file.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
This patch extens the SysV compatibility support in Finit by adding
support for limiting `runparts` to run only SNNfoo, or KNNfoo, style
scripts from a directory.
Additionally, by default `runparts` now runs entirely in the background
without any progress. To enable progress, an optional argument has been
added to the runparts command line.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
As pointed out in #366, the configure options --enable-fastboot and
--enable-fsckfix should just alter the default values of the two fsck
command line options.
This commit simplifies the code and makes it possible to override using
the command line regardless of the two build options.
Finally, add the two command line options to doc/cmdline.md
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
The rescue mode that can be invoked from the kernel command line is
potentially unsafe. Many systems lock the root user account, or use
another account for managing, e.g. 'admin'. The sulogin program(s)
would on such systems give the user a root prompt.
In #357 we added support for setting a custom sulogin user, but for some
systems that is not enough. On many embedded systems the /etc/passwd
and shadow files are populated at bootstrap and at the time rescue mode
runs, these files will be unpopulated.
The only, truly safe, approach on such systems is to disable rescue mode
completely. Otherwise intricate Finit plugins have to be used that run
before rescue mode is started -- increasing the complexity of the system
as a whole.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
Joachim Wiberg