[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#709754: Erlang runtime implicitly starts a epmd daemon

[Philipp Huebner]

Hi

Am 10.10.2015 um 07:26 schrieb Sergei Golovan:
> The epmd daemon is still masked by default, so I'll not close this bug
> yet. I'm thinking about unmasking it but I'm afraid it'll confuse
> users who don't need and never use any distributed Erlang application.

AFAICT it's not masked, but simply disabled, at least on the Sid systems
where I installed erlang-base.

So it's not automatically started via systemd, but when another service
like ejabberd requires it, it is.

ejabberd.service contains:
 After=epmd.service network.target
 Requires=epmd.service


The only question that remains: what happens if other apps want to start
epmd? Is it always caught through epmd.socket and started via systemd or
is epmd then started again under an untrusted user?


Regards,
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