From 1b099eec8e954e2a382d26df7a807f7dede1d0c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Sjölund Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:41:28 +0200 Subject: [CI:DOCS] podman-generate-systemd.1.md: document --sdnotify MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * Document why the default value for --sdnotify is overridden. Some was included text from https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15029#issuecomment-1192244755 * Document that --sdnotify=ignore is overridden. Fixes #15029 Co-authored-by: Valentin Rothberg Co-authored-by: Tom Sweeney Signed-off-by: Erik Sjölund --- docs/source/markdown/podman-generate-systemd.1.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/source/markdown') diff --git a/docs/source/markdown/podman-generate-systemd.1.md b/docs/source/markdown/podman-generate-systemd.1.md index 50881a509..fc2ce171e 100644 --- a/docs/source/markdown/podman-generate-systemd.1.md +++ b/docs/source/markdown/podman-generate-systemd.1.md @@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ Generating unit files for a pod requires the pod to be created with an infra con _Note: If you use this command with the remote client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines, you would still have to place the generated units on the remote system. Moreover, please make sure that the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable is set. If unset, you may set it via `export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u)`._ +_Note: The generated `podman run` command contains an `--sdnotify` option with the value taken from the container. +If the container does not have any explicitly set value or the value is set to __ignore__, the value __conmon__ is used. +The reason for overriding the default value __container__ is that almost no container workloads send notify messages. +Systemd would wait for a ready message that never comes, if the value __container__ is used for a container +that does not send notify messages. The use of the default value might have been unintentional by the user, +therefore the overridden default value._ + ### Kubernetes Integration A Kubernetes YAML can be executed in systemd via the `podman-kube@.service` systemd template. The template's argument is the path to the YAML file. Given a `workload.yaml` file in the home directory, it can be executed as follows: -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf