Using /etc/lighttpd.conf "hides" the config file from NixOS so that it
will not automatically restart the service when its config file changes.
So don't do that.
I think it's nice that it first asks the usual password, and then offers the
otpw one if enabled. That enables dovecot to show the last pam prompt.
I also add the dovecot option for that.
More specifically, this removes services.pulseaudio and adds the option
hardware.pulseaudio.systemWide which defaults to false but can be used to turn
on the system-wide PulseAudio server (previously defined in
services.pulseaudio). Since the two PulseAudio modes are mutually exclusive
anyway (maybe not strictly true, but I don't think is a good idea combining
them) its nicer to be able to reuse server and ALSA configuration between them.
Also the system-wide PulseAudio service has been adjusted to systemd, and a few
things has been fixed (there was no alsa.conf before, for example).
The bottomline is that people that was using hardware.pulseaudio before should
be able to keep doing it in exactly the same way, and people that used
services.pulseaudio must switch over to hardware.pulseaudio.systemWide instead.
The smartd used to expect a list of devices to monitor. After this patch, it
expects a list of attribute sets, which may have two attributes:
- device: path to the device (required)
- options: smartd options to apply to this particular device (optional)
A concrete example configuration would be:
services.smartd = {
enable = true;
devices = [ { device = "/dev/sda"; } { device = "/dev/sdb"; options = "-d sat"; } ];
};
Furthermore, the config option 'deviceOpts' can be used to configure options
that are applied to *every* device.
Enable it with
services.transmission.enable = true;
and optionally configure it
services.transmission.settings =
{
download-dir = "/srv/torrents/";
incomplete-dir = "/srv/torrents/.incomplete/";
incomplete-dir-enabled = true;
rpc-whitelist = "127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*";
# for users in group "transmission" to have access to torrents
umask = 2;
};
The above settings are written/merged into settings.json each time the
service is about to start.
Newer kernels (since torvalds/linux@abb139e75c) try to
read firmware directly from the filesystem before falling back to a
userspace helper (udev) if firmware cannot be found (in even newer
kernels, the fallback path can be disabled altogether). By default, only
certain paths in /lib/firmware* are searched, so this was initially not
helpful for NixOS.
Since torvalds/linux@2760284206 (which,
based on the commit message, was implemented just for NixOS, go us!),
though, an extra path can be dynamically prepended to the search path.
So do that, in three ways:
1. Pass a kernel command line option in case the module is built-in
2. Add a line to modprobe.conf in case the module isn't yet loaded by
activation-time
3. Add an activation script to set the option in /sys in case the module
is already loaded by activation-time.
xf86videovmware[1].
Adds "vmware" to list of default options of
services.xerver.videoDrivers.
new default:
[ "ati" "cirrus" "intel" "vesa" "vmware" ]
old default:
[ "ati" "cirrus" "intel" "vesa" ]
[1] Pull request for xf86videovmware found at
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/338.
The mongodb service runs as user mongodb, and therefore
the preStart-script has no permissions to set up mongodb
directories. This is solved by adding an initialisation
service that runs as root and just sets up the required
directories.
This reverts commit 683100666d.
Seems somebody (systemd? the kernel?) gets confused at power
events and remounts the filesystem containing /nix/store as
read-only.
This is necessary to prevent a race. Udev 197 has a new naming scheme
for network devices, so it will rename (say) eth0 to eno0. This fails
with "error changing net interface name eth0 to eno1: Device or
resource busy" if another process has opened the interface in the
meantime.
This reverts commit 1e741f1572b6793b861e2f9820015475ce339ae0 as it is
unnecessary according to @edolstra, because services.xserver.config from another
module will be merged into the configuration.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
This is currently only a very simple implementation which just recurses a list
of heads that get chained together to the right of the corresponding previous
item of the list.
If I forgot about something in the already existing configuration options,
please let me know or if this commit is useless or a duplicate, feel free to
revert. But by looking at implementation before this commit, I only see zaphod
and/or quirky xinerama-like configuration options.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
This is especially useful if you want to supply a default XRandR configuration,
where you need multiple "Monitor" sections in order to set properties for
specific CRTCs (if not running in zaphod mode).
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
To be honest, it's more like "be less discriminating against USB tablets".
USB tablets usually get autodetected, device name is not necessary and defaulting to a serial touchscreen is a clear discrimination.
Unconditionally remapping buttons is generally not a good idea either.
Old defaults transformed into examples.
During a configuration switch, changed units are stopped in the old
configuration, then started in the new configuration (i.e. after
running the activation script and running "systemctl daemon-reload").
This ensures that services are stopped using the ExecStop/ExecStopPost
commands from the old configuration.
However, for some services it's undesirable to stop them; in
particular dhcpcd, which deconfigures its network interfaces when it
stops. This is dangerous when doing remote upgrades - usually things
go right (especially because the switch script ignores SIGHUP), but
not always (see 9aa69885f0). Likewise,
sshd should be kept running for as long as possible to prevent a
lock-out if the switch fails.
So the new option ‘stopIfChanged = false’ causes "systemctl restart"
to be used instead of "systemctl stop" followed by "systemctl start".
This is only proper for services that don't have stop commands. (And
it might not handle dependencies properly in some cases, but I'm not
sure.)
Running it from systemd rather than cron has several advantages:
systemd ensures that only one instance runs at a time; the GC can be
manually started/stopped; and logging goes to the journal.
We still need cron to start the service at the right time, but
hopefully soon we can get rid of cron entirely (once systemd supports
starting a unit at a specific time).
Charon needs this to include the dynamically generated
/root/.vbox-charon-client-key. (We used
users.extraUsers.root.openssh.authorizedKeys.keyFiles for this, but
that no longer works.)
Instead of the somewhat hacky script that inserted public keys
into the users' .ssh/authorized_keys files, use the AuthorizedKeysFile
configuration directive in sshd_config and generate extra key
files for each user (placed in /etc/authorized_keys.d/).
The xsession script runs services that depend on a sane environment. Gpg-agent, for
example, runs the program "pinentry-gtk-2" to obtain the password to unlock GnuPG
and SSH keys. That program will display only gibberish unless $FONTCONFIG_FILE is
configured properly. Instead of configuring these variables explicitly one by one,
we just source /etc/profile, which contains the appropriate @shellInit@ code.
Thus
networking.interfaces = [ { name = "eth0"; ipAddress = "192.168.15.1"; } ];
can now be written as
networking.interfaces.eth0.ipAddress = "192.168.15.1";
The old notation still works though.
Cgroups are handled by systemd now. Systemd's cgroup support does not
do all the things that cgrulesengd does, but they're likely to
interact poorly with each other.
We now just have a simple attribute called "version24" which replaces all those
pesky versionOlder that were spreading throughout the file and makes things way
more readable.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
By default the path is determined related to ServerRoot. Unfortunately
ServerRoot is pointing to the Nix store and the web server can't write to it.
We now create a directory called "runtime" withen the stateDir and point
DefaultRuntimeDir to it.
For more information on the DefaultRuntimeDir directive, please see:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#defaultruntimedir
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
NameVirtualHost no longer has any effect on version 2.4 and just emits ugly
warnings, so let's not use it if we use 2.4.
More information: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#misc
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The Order/Deny directives are deprecated in version 2.4, so we're going to
define two wrappers for allDenied and allGranted in order to properly generate
configurations for both version 2.2 and 2.4.
For more information an access control changes, see:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#access
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Now, MPMs can be loaded at runtime and it's no longer required to compile in one
of the MPM modules statically. So, if version is >= 2.4, load the MPM module
corresponding to the multiProcessingModule value of the service module.
For details, please see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mpm.html
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Beginning with version 2.3, the authn were refactored. As a result, authn_alias
is now part of the new module authn_core, so let's use authn_core instead of
authn_alias.
For details please see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#misc
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
My main reason for adding this is the ability to turn off helpers
altogether. If you are not using any of the special protocols, keeping
them turned off is safest, and in case you do want to use them, it's
best to configure them through the new CT target for your network
topology. Perhaps some sane defaults for nixos can be examined in the
future.
This change has no impact if you don't touch the added options, so no
need to adapt.
This is meant to replace /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter, which
only works for ipv4. Furthermore, it's nicer to handle this kind of
filtering in the firewall.
There are some more subtle differences, please see:
https://home.regit.org/netfilter-en/secure-use-of-helpers/
I chose to enable this by default (when the firewall is enabled) as
it's a good idea in general. Only people with advanced routing needs
might not want this, but I guess they don't use the nixos firewall
anyway and use a custom solution. Furthermore, the option only becomes
available in kernel 3.3+, so conservative nixos users that just stick
to the default kernel will not need to act now just yet.
For each statically configured interface, we now create a unit
‘<interface>-cfg.service’ which gets started as soon as the network
device comes up. Similarly, each bridge defined in
‘networking.bridges’ and virtual interface in ‘networking.interfaces’
is created by a service ‘<interface>.service’.
So if we have
networking.bridges.br0.interfaces = [ "eth0" "eth1" ];
networking.interfaces =
[ { name = "br0";
ipAddress = "192.168.1.1";
}
];
then there will be a unit ‘br0.service’ that depends on
‘sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device’ and
‘sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth1.device’, and a unit ‘br0-cfg.service’
that depends on ‘sys-subsystem-net-devices-br0.device’.
The special handling for cronjobs should probably move to the cron
module (logcheckIgnore = bool option) in the future, as it's more
natural to just declare a cronjob, and mark it as "log-ignored",
instead of adding cronjobs through logcheck.
But as systemCronjobs is not an attrset yet (just simple strings),
this would require adding an attrset for cronjobs or parsing strings
in the nix language to get hold of the cron-user and command.
So for now, I keep the interface within logcheck's module.
However SLIM is still broken and you have to create a
/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so symlink pointing to
/run/opengl-driver/lib/fglrx_dri.so
At least fgl_glxgears shows 10 times more frames per second now
The upower daemon needs the gdbus command (which is weird given that
upower links against dbus_glib, but ah well...). This fixes suspend
in KDE with systemd.
Alsa-utils provides a udev rule to restore volume settings, so use
that instead of restoring them from a systemd service. The
"alsa-store" service saves the settings on shutdown.
So instead of:
boot.systemd.services."foo".serviceConfig =
''
StartLimitInterval=10
CPUShare=500
'';
you can say:
boot.systemd.services."foo".serviceConfig.StartLimitInterval = 10;
boot.systemd.services."foo".serviceConfig.CPUShare = 500;
This way all unit options are available and users can set/override
options in configuration.nix.
This makes it easier for systemd to track it and avoids race conditions such as
this one:
systemd[1]: PID file /run/sshd.pid not readable (yet?) after start.
systemd[1]: Failed to start SSH Daemon.
systemd[1]: Unit sshd.service entered failed state.
systemd[1]: sshd.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
systemd[1]: Stopping SSH Daemon...
systemd[1]: Starting SSH Daemon...
sshd[2315]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
sshd[2315]: Server listening on :: port 22.
sshd[2335]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use.
sshd[2335]: error: Bind to port 22 on :: failed: Address already in use.
sshd[2335]: fatal: Cannot bind any address.
systemd[1]: Started SSH Daemon.
When spamd isn't running as 'root', it cannot access the usual ~/.spamassassin
path where user-specific files normally reside. Instead, we use the path
/var/lib/spamassassin-<user> to store those home directories.
* Add group 'networkmanager' and implement polkit configuration
that allows users in this group to make persistent, system-wide
changes to NetworkManager settings.
* Add support for ModemManager. 3G modems should work out of the
box now (it does for me...). This introduces a dependency on
pkgs.modemmanager.
* Write NetworkManger config file to Nix store, and let the
daemon use it from there.
I had some problems with LDAP user lookups not working properly
at boot. I found that invalidating passwd and group on the
ip-up event (when nscd-invalidate starts) helped a bit.
Logind sessions are more generally useful than for device ownership.
For instances, ssh logins can be put in their own session (and thus
their own cgroup).
