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Linux Service Management Made Easy with systemd

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Linux Service Management Made Easy with systemd

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Overview of this book

Linux Service Management Made Easy with systemd will provide you with an in-depth understanding of systemd, so that you can set up your servers securely and efficiently.This is a comprehensive guide for Linux administrators that will help you get the best of systemd, starting with an explanation of the fundamentals of systemd management.You’ll also learn how to edit and create your own systemd units, which will be particularly helpful if you need to create custom services or timers and add features or security to an existing service. Next, you'll find out how to analyze and fix boot-up challenges and set system parameters. An overview of cgroups that'll help you control system resource usage for both processes and users will also be covered, alongside a practical demonstration on how cgroups are structured, spotting the differences between cgroups Version 1 and 2, and how to set resource limits on both. Finally, you'll learn about the systemd way of performing time-keeping, networking, logging, and login management. You'll discover how to configure servers accurately and gather system information to analyze system security and performance. By the end of this Linux book, you’ll be able to efficiently manage all aspects of a server running the systemd init system.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Using systemd
12
Section 2: Understanding cgroups
16
Section 3: Logging, Timekeeping, Networking, and Booting

Understanding socket units

The socket unit files are also in the /lib/systemd/system/ directory, and their filenames end with .socket. Here's a partial list of them on one of my Ubuntu Server machines:

donnie@ubuntu20-10:/lib/systemd/system$ ls -l *.socket
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  246 Jun  1  2020 apport-forward.socket
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  102 Sep 10  2020 dbus.socket
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  248 May 30  2020 dm-event.socket
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  197 Sep 16 16:52 docker.socket
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  175 Feb 26  2020 iscsid.socket
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  239 May 30  2020 lvm2-lvmpolld.socket
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  186 Sep 11  2020 multipathd.socket
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  281 Feb  2 08:21 snapd.socket
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  216 Jun  7  2020 ssh.socket
. . .
. . .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root...