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

[Robert Edmonds]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Fri 2017-07-14 12:32:57 -0400, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> > So we either need to configure systemd to delete Unbound's pidfile, or
> > we could develop and contribute a patch upstream that allows overriding
> > the pidfile via the command-line.
> 
> ok, how about something like this:
> 
> https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/pull/1

Hm, that could work (but then we have to carry around "-p" in the
service unit forever). I was thinking of a command-line parameter that
takes an argument to the pidfile path (like "-p /run/unbound.pid") that
takes precedence over the 'pidfile' value from the config file and the
compiled in 'pidfile' default value. And then we set the default value
for 'pidfile' to "" so that Unbound doesn't make a pidfile by default,
and append "-p /run/unbound.pid" to $DAEMON_OPTS in /etc/init.d/unbound.

BTW, I don't think upstream really monitors that GitHub repository, it's
a git-svn mirror. Posting patches to the mailing list or bugzilla seems
to be their thing.

-- 
Robert Edmonds
edmonds at debian.org