[Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#876775: pdns-tools: /etc/init.d/pdns isrunning() broken

[neonknight]

Package: pdns-tools
Version: 4.0.3-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

before any function in /etc/init.d/pdns is executed, the script checks
if pdns is running by calling the function isrunning(). This function
determines the status of pdns by sending pdns_control ping. however,
pdns_control does not support a command named "ping". the correct
command would be "rping". this renders the init script unusable. even on
a systemd enabled system, the init script might still be used e.g. for
generating statistics with mrtg.

here's my suggestion for a patch to fix the issue:

$ diff pdns.orig pdns
56c56
<       doPC ping > /dev/null
---
>       doPC rping > /dev/null

PS apologies, for whatever reason my reportbug insists filing this bug 
for pdns-tools. the affected package of course is pdns-server. some mod
please adjust this for me...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (750, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages pdns-tools depends on:
pn  libboost-program-options1.62.0  <none>
ii  libc6                           2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libgcc1                         1:6.3.0-18
ii  libssl1.1                       1.1.0f-3
ii  libstdc++6                      6.3.0-18

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