[Pkg-freeradius-maintainers] Bug#920345: Bug#920345: freeradius: running freeradius with debug(-X) option breaks systemd unit

[Michael Stapelberg]

The -X option is special in that it changes the way freeradius starts up.

It’s expected that if your actions break the contract with the init system
(in this case by specifying -X), you’re responsible to rectify that.

If there was a simple way to make the package work in any/all cases, it’d
be up for it, but I’m not aware of one. Hence my question for what your
suggestion is — I just don’t see a way out of this situation.

My personal recommendation is to not use /etc/default, but rather systemctl
edit to do any overrides, but that’s not Debian’s official line.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 3:37 PM Mariusz Gronczewski <xani666 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In our case it was enough to add dropin changing execstart to include
> -f and type to simple:
>
> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/freeradius -f $FREERADIUS_OPTIONS
> Type=simple
>
> What do you mean by "it is expected" ? Currently enabling debug (by
> setting FREERADIUS_OPTIONS="-X") cause it to enter restart loop,
> surely that isn't an expected behaviour ?
>
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 13:52, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg at debian.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, this is expected. What change are you suggesting?
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 1:45 PM Mariusz Gronczewski <xani666 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Package: freeradius
> >> Version: 3.0.12+dfsg-5+deb9u1
> >> Severity: normal
> >>
> >> Currently the type of systemd service is forking.
> >>
> >> Adding debug to cmdline causes freeradius to run in foreground (and
> dump debug
> >> to stdout), which means systemd timeouts on starting service because it
> assumes
> >> it will fork.
> >>
> >> Changing type to simple, and adding -f (run in foreground) option in
> unit file
> >> fixes that
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mariusz Gronczewski (XANi) <xani666 at gmail.com>
> >> GnuPG: 0xEA8ACE64
> >>
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> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Michael
>
>
>
> --
> Mariusz Gronczewski (XANi) <xani666 at gmail.com>
> GnuPG: 0xEA8ACE64
>


-- 
Best regards,
Michael
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