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eldritch horrors bdc220b8ec libstore: allow for multiple daemon sockets with preference
this will let us configure more than one socket to connect/bind to,
which in turn lets us use posix acls on sockets for access control.
we will also need something like this for the final rpc transition.

Change-Id: I9c39f14906e9bf809055ab5c94bf687745b4f69e
2026-01-26 18:17:07 +00:00
eldritch horrors 521b42866d nix/daemon: socket-activate single connections
the cgroups experimental feature does not work properly without this
because we do not stop subdaemons when the main daemon is shut down.
systemd needs the assigned cgroups to be empty to restart the daemon
and thus cannot cleanly restart the daemon if any connections exist.
starting a fresh unit for each connection creates a new cgroup every
time instead of sharing any delegations and thus solves the problem.

fixes #1030

Change-Id: Id6c458aad30eaa08c3609ac8280a7dde8e8f3cf9
2025-12-20 15:09:23 +00:00
Raito Bezarius 1e98c01912 libutil/users: support service cache directories
Nix daemon runs in a service context, usually with systemd.

If the Nix daemon unit adds `[Service] CacheDirectory=nix-daemon`, it should
successfully use `/var/cache/nix-daemon` automatically.

Instead, it uses `/root/.cache` right now, which is really bad.

By default, we add `[Service] CacheDirectory=nix` now which means that
caches are moved into `/var/cache/nix`.

Fixes #634.

Change-Id: I854b1045bfdce8f60110aea70bda1bf6657dfd7b
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
2025-12-05 00:14:42 +01:00
a527bb251a libstore/build: cgroup delegation to sandbox
We offer full cgroup delegation to our sandbox now, required for running
containers inside the sandbox.

To run systemd-nspawn or containers managers inside the sandbox, there
is a need for one extra ingredient now: control over your own cgroup
subtree inside the sandbox.

If, in addition, you need multiple UIDs, for e.g. rootless usecases, you
need to run with the `uid-range` system feature.

Therefore, when the daemon or Nix runs under the right condition, e.g.
systemd-style delegation of the cgroup subtree while placing the
nix-daemon in a supervisor sub-cgroup, we create a new sub-cgroup for
each build based on the build UID and delegate that sub-cgroup to the
builder's process.

Additionally, `uid-range` always request the `cgroups` feature now, as
`uid-range` builds would probably always benefit from having cgroups
delegated, but the converse is not true.

Inspired from https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11412 with a different
design that does not use function-local statics to derive the root
cgroup.

Co-authored-by: Linus Heckemann <git@sphalerite.org>
Co-authored-by: Parker Hoyes <contact@parkerhoyes.com>
Change-Id: Ic8947c5adaf4b5bbd153386e05fad65a935274fa
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
2025-06-10 20:50:00 +02:00
Jade Lovelace 26e56780ca Fixup a bunch of references to nixos.org manuals
(plus one reference to CppNix github)

Change-Id: Id8b3d2897f3b54e286861805cfd421adc4d5de47
2024-07-18 19:27:33 +00:00
Ana Hobden d76bf29c5f Choose a reasonable number similar to LimitNOFile 2023-07-07 07:52:16 -07:00
Ana Hobden 4b2f155f0a nix-daemon.service: Add TasksMax=infinity 2023-07-06 09:02:27 -07:00
Artturin 2320a2f93e systemd,launchd match nixos open files limit
it was bumped in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/176558
2022-11-04 19:40:16 +02:00
Artturin cebef6a250 nix-daemon.service: sync LimitNOFILE with the nixos service
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/5628480acda2985cc334d0c5ec85512858ed60f9/nixos/modules/services/misc/nix-daemon.nix#L737
Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6007
2022-05-19 21:16:07 +03:00
Graham ChristensenandGitHub 3b26dd51ff nix-daemon.service: require mounts for /nix/var/nix/db
Users may want to mount a filesystem just for the Nix database, with
the filesystem's parameters specially tuned for sqlite. For example, on
ZFS you might set the recordsize to 64k after changing the database's
page size to 65536.
2022-03-29 21:05:57 -04:00
thkoch2001andGitHub e06b264f94 Add documentation= entry to systemd unit file
Closes: #6246
2022-03-13 18:42:26 +02:00
Piotr Szubiakowski d459224724 nix-daemon.service: add install section.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Szubiakowski <pszubiak@eso.org>
2019-08-27 10:35:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 465cb68244 Figure out the user's home directory if $HOME is not set 2017-05-05 17:08:23 +02:00
Jörg Thalheim b3f55fdf62 nix-daemon.service: set XDG_CONFIG_HOME
Otherwise starting nix-daemon fails

● nix-daemon.service - Nix Daemon
   Loaded: loaded
(/nix/store/mnf00a6gc55xl47smk0b32gmi7xpvlfp-nix-1.12pre5308_2f21d522/lib/systemd/system/nix-daemon.service;
enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
  Drop-In:
/nix/store/m2rgjp71n4kyp8j5fxgbrlv13scd5vvv-system-units/nix-daemon.service.d
           └─overrides.conf
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2017-04-29 11:29:21
CEST; 9s ago
  Process: 7299 ExecStart=nix-daemon --daemon (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 7299 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
      CPU: 19ms

... systemd[1]: Started Nix Daemon.
... nix-daemon[7299]: error: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $HOME are not set
... systemd[1]: nix-daemon.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
... systemd[1]: nix-daemon.service: Unit entered failed state.
... systemd[1]: nix-daemon.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
... systemd[1]: nix-daemon.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
... systemd[1]: Failed to start Nix Daemon.
... systemd[1]: nix-daemon.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
2017-04-29 11:33:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7c33ed691c nix-daemon.service: Set $XDG_CACHE_HOME
Nix requires either $HOME or $XDG_CACHE_HOME to be set.
2016-08-31 11:55:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 84d6936371 Install systemd units 2014-04-07 11:50:55 +02:00