Init Operations

Warning

This is a legacy module providing backwards compatibility. Please use the other modules:

init.d

Manage the state of SysV Init (/etc/init.d) services.

init.d()
  • service: name of the service to manage
  • running: whether the service should be running
  • restarted: whether the service should be restarted
  • reloaded: whether the service should be reloaded
  • enabled: whether this service should be enabled/disabled
  • command: command (eg. reload) to run like: /etc/init.d/<service> <command>
Enabled:

Because managing /etc/rc.d/X files is a mess, only certain Linux distributions support enabling/disabling services:

  • Ubuntu/Debian (update-rc.d)
  • CentOS/Fedora/RHEL (chkconfig)
  • Gentoo (rc-update)

For other distributions and more granular service control, see the sysvinit.enable operation.

Example:

sysvinit.service(
    name='Restart and enable rsyslog',
    service='rsyslog',
    restarted=True,
    enabled=True,
)

init.d_enable

Manually enable /etc/init.d scripts by creating /etc/rcX.d/Y links.

init.d_enable()
  • service: name of the service to enable
  • start_priority: priority to start the service
  • stop_priority: priority to stop the service
  • start_levels: which runlevels should the service run when enabled
  • stop_levels: which runlevels should the service stop when enabled

Example:

init.d_enable(
    name='Finer control on which runlevels rsyslog should run',
    service='rsyslog',
    start_levels=(3, 4, 5),
    stop_levels=(0, 1, 2, 6),
)

init.launchd

Manage the state of systemd managed services.

init.launchd()
  • service: name of the service to manage
  • running: whether the service should be running
  • restarted: whether the service should be restarted
  • command: custom command to pass like: launchctl <command> <service>
  • enabled: whether this service should be enabled/disabled on boot

init.rc

Manage the state of BSD init (/etc/rc.d) services.

init.rc()
  • service: name of the service to manage
  • running: whether the service should be running
  • restarted: whether the service should be restarted
  • reloaded: whether the service should be reloaded
  • command: custom command to pass like: /etc/rc.d/<service> <command>
  • enabled: whether this service should be enabled/disabled on boot

init.service

Manage the state of services. This command checks for the presence of all the Linux init systems pyinfra can handle and executes the relevant operation.

init.service()
  • service: name of the service to manage
  • running: whether the service should be running
  • restarted: whether the service should be restarted
  • reloaded: whether the service should be reloaded
  • command: custom command execute
  • enabled: whether this service should be enabled/disabled on boot

Example:

server.service(
    name='Enable open-vm-tools service',
    service='open-vm-tools',
    enabled=True,
)

init.systemd

Manage the state of systemd managed units.

init.systemd()
  • service: name of the systemd unit to manage
  • running: whether the unit should be running
  • restarted: whether the unit should be restarted
  • reloaded: whether the unit should be reloaded
  • command: custom command to pass like: /etc/rc.d/<name> <command>
  • enabled: whether this unit should be enabled/disabled on boot
  • daemon_reload: reload the systemd daemon to read updated unit files
  • user_mode: whether to use per-user systemd (systemctl –user) or not

Example:

systemd.service(
    name='Restart and enable the dnsmasq service',
    service='dnsmasq.service',
    running=True,
    restarted=True,
    enabled=True,
)

systemd.service(
    name='Enable logrotate timer',
    service='logrotate.timer',
    running=True,
    enabled=True,
)

init.upstart

Manage the state of upstart managed services.

init.upstart()
  • service: name of the service to manage
  • running: whether the service should be running
  • restarted: whether the service should be restarted
  • reloaded: whether the service should be reloaded
  • command: custom command to pass like: /etc/rc.d/<service> <command>
  • enabled: whether this service should be enabled/disabled on boot
Enabling/disabling services:
Upstart jobs define runlevels in their config files - as such there is no way to edit/list these without fiddling with the config. So pyinfra simply manages the existence of a /etc/init/<service>.override file, and sets its content to “manual” to disable automatic start of services.