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diff --git a/init/readme.txt b/init/readme.txt index c213041..9e3394e 100644 --- a/init/readme.txt +++ b/init/readme.txt @@ -60,36 +60,36 @@ Options are modifiers to services. They affect how and when init runs the service. critical - This is a device-critical service. If it exits more than four times in - four minutes, the device will reboot into recovery mode. + This is a device-critical service. If it exits more than four times in + four minutes, the device will reboot into recovery mode. disabled - This service will not automatically start with its class. - It must be explicitly started by name. + This service will not automatically start with its class. + It must be explicitly started by name. setenv <name> <value> - Set the environment variable <name> to <value> in the launched process. + Set the environment variable <name> to <value> in the launched process. socket <name> <type> <perm> [ <user> [ <group> [ <seclabel> ] ] ] - Create a unix domain socket named /dev/socket/<name> and pass - its fd to the launched process. <type> must be "dgram", "stream" or "seqpacket". - User and group default to 0. - 'seclabel' is the SELinux security context for the socket. - It defaults to the service security context, as specified by seclabel or - computed based on the service executable file security context. + Create a unix domain socket named /dev/socket/<name> and pass + its fd to the launched process. <type> must be "dgram", "stream" or "seqpacket". + User and group default to 0. + 'seclabel' is the SELinux security context for the socket. + It defaults to the service security context, as specified by seclabel or + computed based on the service executable file security context. user <username> - Change to username before exec'ing this service. - Currently defaults to root. (??? probably should default to nobody) - Currently, if your process requires linux capabilities then you cannot use - this command. You must instead request the capabilities in-process while - still root, and then drop to your desired uid. + Change to username before exec'ing this service. + Currently defaults to root. (??? probably should default to nobody) + Currently, if your process requires linux capabilities then you cannot use + this command. You must instead request the capabilities in-process while + still root, and then drop to your desired uid. group <groupname> [ <groupname> ]* - Change to groupname before exec'ing this service. Additional - groupnames beyond the (required) first one are used to set the - supplemental groups of the process (via setgroups()). - Currently defaults to root. (??? probably should default to nobody) + Change to groupname before exec'ing this service. Additional + groupnames beyond the (required) first one are used to set the + supplemental groups of the process (via setgroups()). + Currently defaults to root. (??? probably should default to nobody) seclabel <seclabel> Change to 'seclabel' before exec'ing this service. @@ -99,22 +99,26 @@ seclabel <seclabel> If not specified and no transition is defined in policy, defaults to the init context. oneshot - Do not restart the service when it exits. + Do not restart the service when it exits. class <name> - Specify a class name for the service. All services in a - named class may be started or stopped together. A service - is in the class "default" if one is not specified via the - class option. + Specify a class name for the service. All services in a + named class may be started or stopped together. A service + is in the class "default" if one is not specified via the + class option. onrestart - Execute a Command (see below) when service restarts. + Execute a Command (see below) when service restarts. + +writepid <file...> + Write the child's pid to the given files when it forks. Meant for + cgroup/cpuset usage. Triggers -------- - Triggers are strings which can be used to match certain kinds - of events and used to cause an action to occur. +Triggers are strings which can be used to match certain kinds +of events and used to cause an action to occur. boot This is the first trigger that will occur when init starts |