Control daemons for systemd in chroot environment

Servicectl - bash script start/stop service (daemons) for linux using systemd in chroot and SysVinit outside the chroot environment. servicectl management daemon uses the service files of systemd, e.g. /lib/systemd/system/nginx.service

Introduction

Systemd is not working in chroot environment:

sudo systemctl start nginx
Running in chroot, ignoring request.

If your base system (outside chroot):

• uses systemd, please refer to guide: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/changing-roots
• uses SysVinit script, then you can use servicectl.

Requirement for chroot system (inside chroot):

• installed systemd

Installation

Manual:

wget https://github.com/ctr49/servicectl/tarball/master
tar --strip-components 1 -C /usr/local/bin --wildcards -zxf master */service*
mkdir /etc/init.d-chroot

Usage

servicectl

sudo servicectl action service

This command just executes ${action} from file /usr/lib/systemd/system/${service}.service If passed action enable or disable, servicectl will create or delete symlink on ${service}.service to /etc/init.d-chroot for use by serviced.

Params:

• action - can be {start, stop, restart, reload, enable, disable}
• service - file name in folder /usr/lib/systemd/system/

serviced

sudo serviced action

This command exec ${action} for all enable services.

Params:

• action - by default start, can be {start, stop, restart, reload, disable}

Example

# inside chroot
sudo servicectl enable nginx php-fpm

# outside chroot: 
# init startup and run all enabled daemons
sudo chroot /path/to/chroot serviced