OPTIONS¶
All options are configured in the "[Manager]"
  section:
LogLevel=, LogTarget=, LogColor=,
    LogLocation=, DumpCore=yes, CrashChangeVT=no,
    CrashShell=no, CrashReboot=no, ShowStatus=yes,
    DefaultStandardOutput=journal,
  DefaultStandardError=inherit
Configures various parameters of basic manager operation.
  These options may be overridden by the respective process and kernel command
  line arguments. See 
systemd(1) for details.
CtrlAltDelBurstAction=
Defines what action will be performed if user presses
  Ctrl-Alt-Delete more than 7 times in 2s. Can be set to
  "reboot-force", "poweroff-force",
  "reboot-immediate", "poweroff-immediate" or disabled with
  "none". Defaults to "reboot-force".
CPUAffinity=
Configures the CPU affinity for the service manager as
  well as the default CPU affinity for all forked off processes. Takes a list of
  CPU indices or ranges separated by either whitespace or commas. CPU ranges are
  specified by the lower and upper CPU indices separated by a dash. This option
  may be specified more than once, in which case the specified CPU affinity
  masks are merged. If the empty string is assigned, the mask is reset, all
  assignments prior to this will have no effect. Individual services may
  override the CPU affinity for their processes with the 
CPUAffinity=
  setting in unit files, see 
systemd.exec(5).
JoinControllers=cpu,cpuacct net_cls,netprio
Configures controllers that shall be mounted in a single
  hierarchy. By default, systemd will mount all controllers which are enabled in
  the kernel in individual hierarchies, with the exception of those listed in
  this setting. Takes a space-separated list of comma-separated controller
  names, in order to allow multiple joined hierarchies. Defaults to
  'cpu,cpuacct'. Pass an empty string to ensure that systemd mounts all
  controllers in separate hierarchies.
Note that this option is only applied once, at very early boot. If
    you use an initial RAM disk (initrd) that uses systemd, it might hence be
    necessary to rebuild the initrd if this option is changed, and make sure the
    new configuration file is included in it. Otherwise, the initrd might mount
    the controller hierarchies in a different configuration than intended, and
    the main system cannot remount them anymore.
NUMAPolicy=
Configures the NUMA memory policy for the service manager
  and the default NUMA memory policy for all forked off processes. Individual
  services may override the default policy with the 
NUMAPolicy= setting
  in unit files, see 
systemd.exec(5).
NUMAMask=
Configures the NUMA node mask that will be associated
  with the selected NUMA policy. Note that 
default and 
local NUMA
  policies don't require explicit NUMA node mask and value of the option can be
  empty. Similarly to 
NUMAPolicy=, value can be overriden by individual
  services in unit files, see 
systemd.exec(5).
RuntimeWatchdogSec=, ShutdownWatchdogSec=
Configure the hardware watchdog at runtime and at reboot.
  Takes a timeout value in seconds (or in other time units if suffixed with
  "ms", "min", "h", "d", "w").
  If 
RuntimeWatchdogSec= is set to a non-zero value, the watchdog
  hardware (/dev/watchdog or the path specified with 
WatchdogDevice= or
  the kernel option 
systemd.watchdog-device=) will be programmed to
  automatically reboot the system if it is not contacted within the specified
  timeout interval. The system manager will ensure to contact it at least once
  in half the specified timeout interval. This feature requires a hardware
  watchdog device to be present, as it is commonly the case in embedded and
  server systems. Not all hardware watchdogs allow configuration of all possible
  reboot timeout values, in which case the closest available timeout is picked.
  
ShutdownWatchdogSec= may be used to configure the hardware watchdog
  when the system is asked to reboot. It works as a safety net to ensure that
  the reboot takes place even if a clean reboot attempt times out. Note that the
  
ShutdownWatchdogSec= timeout applies only to the second phase of the
  reboot, i.e. after all regular services are already terminated, and after the
  system and service manager process (PID 1) got replaced by the
  systemd-shutdown binary, see system 
bootup(7) for details. During the
  first phase of the shutdown operation the system and service manager remains
  running and hence 
RuntimeWatchdogSec= is still honoured. In order to
  define a timeout on this first phase of system shutdown, configure
  
JobTimeoutSec= and 
JobTimeoutAction= in the "[Unit]"
  section of the shutdown.target unit. By default 
RuntimeWatchdogSec=
  defaults to 0 (off), and 
ShutdownWatchdogSec= to 10min. These settings
  have no effect if a hardware watchdog is not available.
WatchdogDevice=
Configure the hardware watchdog device that the runtime
  and shutdown watchdog timers will open and use. Defaults to /dev/watchdog.
  This setting has no effect if a hardware watchdog is not available.
CapabilityBoundingSet=
Controls which capabilities to include in the capability
  bounding set for PID 1 and its children. See 
capabilities(7) for
  details. Takes a whitespace-separated list of capability names as read by
  
cap_from_name(3). Capabilities listed will be included in the bounding
  set, all others are removed. If the list of capabilities is prefixed with ~,
  all but the listed capabilities will be included, the effect of the assignment
  inverted. Note that this option also affects the respective capabilities in
  the effective, permitted and inheritable capability sets. The capability
  bounding set may also be individually configured for units using the
  
CapabilityBoundingSet= directive for units, but note that capabilities
  dropped for PID 1 cannot be regained in individual units, they are lost for
  good.
NoNewPrivileges=
Takes a boolean argument. If true, ensures that PID 1 and
  all its children can never gain new privileges through 
execve(2) (e.g.
  via setuid or setgid bits, or filesystem capabilities). Defaults to false.
  General purpose distributions commonly rely on executables with setuid or
  setgid bits and will thus not function properly with this option enabled.
  Individual units cannot disable this option. Also see 
No New Privileges
  Flag[1].
SystemCallArchitectures=
Takes a space-separated list of architecture identifiers.
  Selects from which architectures system calls may be invoked on this system.
  This may be used as an effective way to disable invocation of non-native
  binaries system-wide, for example to prohibit execution of 32-bit x86 binaries
  on 64-bit x86-64 systems. This option operates system-wide, and acts similar
  to the 
SystemCallArchitectures= setting of unit files, see
  
systemd.exec(5) for details. This setting defaults to the empty list,
  in which case no filtering of system calls based on architecture is applied.
  Known architecture identifiers are "x86", "x86-64",
  "x32", "arm" and the special identifier
  "native". The latter implicitly maps to the native architecture of
  the system (or more specifically, the architecture the system manager was
  compiled for). Set this setting to "native" to prohibit execution of
  any non-native binaries. When a binary executes a system call of an
  architecture that is not listed in this setting, it will be immediately
  terminated with the SIGSYS signal.
TimerSlackNSec=
Sets the timer slack in nanoseconds for PID 1, which is
  inherited by all executed processes, unless overridden individually, for
  example with the 
TimerSlackNSec= setting in service units (for details
  see 
systemd.exec(5)). The timer slack controls the accuracy of wake-ups
  triggered by system timers. See 
prctl(2) for more information. Note
  that in contrast to most other time span definitions this parameter takes an
  integer value in nano-seconds if no unit is specified. The usual time units
  are understood too.
DefaultTimerAccuracySec=
Sets the default accuracy of timer units. This controls
  the global default for the 
AccuracySec= setting of timer units, see
  
systemd.timer(5) for details. 
AccuracySec= set in individual
  units override the global default for the specific unit. Defaults to 1min.
  Note that the accuracy of timer units is also affected by the configured timer
  slack for PID 1, see 
TimerSlackNSec= above.
DefaultTimeoutStartSec=, DefaultTimeoutStopSec=,
    DefaultRestartSec=
Configures the default timeouts for starting and stopping
  of units, as well as the default time to sleep between automatic restarts of
  units, as configured per-unit in 
TimeoutStartSec=,
  
TimeoutStopSec= and 
RestartSec= (for services, see
  
systemd.service(5) for details on the per-unit settings). For
  non-service units, 
DefaultTimeoutStartSec= sets the default
  
TimeoutSec= value. 
DefaultTimeoutStartSec= and
  
DefaultTimeoutStopSec= default to 90s. 
DefaultRestartSec=
  defaults to 100ms.
DefaultDeviceTimeoutSec=
Configures the default timeout for waiting for devices.
  It can be changed per device via the 
x-systemd.device-timeout= option
  in /etc/fstab and /etc/crypttab (see 
systemd.mount(5),
  
crypttab(5)). Defaults to 90s.
DefaultStartLimitIntervalSec=,
    DefaultStartLimitBurst=
Configure the default unit start rate limiting, as
  configured per-service by 
StartLimitIntervalSec= and
  
StartLimitBurst=. See 
systemd.service(5) for details on the
  per-service settings. 
DefaultStartLimitIntervalSec= defaults to 10s.
  
DefaultStartLimitBurst= defaults to 5.
DefaultEnvironment=
Sets manager environment variables passed to all executed
  processes. Takes a space-separated list of variable assignments. See
  
environ(7) for details about environment variables.
Example:
DefaultEnvironment="VAR1=word1 word2" VAR2=word3 "VAR3=word 5 6"
 
Sets three variables "VAR1", "VAR2",
    "VAR3".
DefaultCPUAccounting=, DefaultBlockIOAccounting=,
    DefaultMemoryAccounting=, DefaultTasksAccounting=,
    DefaultIPAccounting=
Configure the default resource accounting settings, as
  configured per-unit by 
CPUAccounting=, 
BlockIOAccounting=,
  
MemoryAccounting=, 
TasksAccounting= and 
IPAccounting=.
  See 
systemd.resource-control(5) for details on the per-unit settings.
  
DefaultTasksAccounting= defaults to on, 
DefaultMemoryAccounting=
  to yes, the other three settings to off.
DefaultTasksMax=
Configure the default value for the per-unit
  
TasksMax= setting. See 
systemd.resource-control(5) for details.
  This setting applies to all unit types that support resource control settings,
  with the exception of slice units. Defaults to 80%, which equals 26214 with
  the kernel's defaults on the host, but might be smaller in OS
  containers.
DefaultLimitCPU=, DefaultLimitFSIZE=,
    DefaultLimitDATA=, DefaultLimitSTACK=,
    DefaultLimitCORE=, DefaultLimitRSS=,
    DefaultLimitNOFILE=, DefaultLimitAS=,
    DefaultLimitNPROC=, DefaultLimitMEMLOCK=,
    DefaultLimitLOCKS=, DefaultLimitSIGPENDING=,
    DefaultLimitMSGQUEUE=, DefaultLimitNICE=,
    DefaultLimitRTPRIO=, DefaultLimitRTTIME=
These settings control various default resource limits
  for units. See 
setrlimit(2) for details. The resource limit is possible
  to specify in two formats, 
value to set soft and hard limits to the
  same value, or 
soft:hard to set both limits individually (e.g.
  DefaultLimitAS=4G:16G). Use the string 
infinity to configure no limit
  on a specific resource. The multiplicative suffixes K (=1024), M (=1024*1024)
  and so on for G, T, P and E may be used for resource limits measured in bytes
  (e.g. DefaultLimitAS=16G). For the limits referring to time values, the usual
  time units ms, s, min, h and so on may be used (see 
systemd.time(7) for
  details). Note that if no time unit is specified for 
DefaultLimitCPU=
  the default unit of seconds is implied, while for 
DefaultLimitRTTIME=
  the default unit of microseconds is implied. Also, note that the effective
  granularity of the limits might influence their enforcement. For example, time
  limits specified for 
DefaultLimitCPU= will be rounded up implicitly to
  multiples of 1s. These settings may be overridden in individual units using
  the corresponding LimitXXX= directives. Note that these resource limits are
  only defaults for units, they are not applied to PID 1 itself.