[Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#867192: Bug#867192: let systemd know about the pid file

[Simon Deziel]

On 2017-07-11 09:27 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Thu 2017-07-06 12:11:04 -0400, Simon Deziel wrote:
>> On 2017-07-05 09:28 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>>> On Tue 2017-07-04 11:52:17 -0400, Simon Deziel wrote:
>>>
>>>> When unbound is stopped, its PID file is left behind causing subsequent
>>>> service starts to complain like that:
>>>>
>>>>  unbound[178]: [178:0] warning: did not exit gracefully last time (124)
>>>>
>>>> Please find a patch that tells systemd where the PID is so that it can
>>>> delete it once unbound is stopped.
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it be preferable to not create a pidfile at all if it's not
>>> needed?
>>
>> That would work for the systemd case (with pidfile: "") but I don't know
>> how the init script would cope with that.
> 
> Isn't this bug report about systemd, and not sysvinit?

Having a PID file seems to be the easiest way to make both systemd and
SysV happy.

Simon