[Pkg-freeradius-maintainers] Bug#1024990: freeradius.service needs StartLimitIntervalSec=30s or similar

[Schlichting, Florian]

Package: freeradius
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

a failing freeradius startup is repeated indefinitely, the unit never
ever reaches the FAILED state. This makes it harder than necessary to
see that there is a problem.

freeradius.service sets

  Restart=on-failure
  RestartSec=5

and in Debian, the defaults for

  DefaultStartLimitIntervalSec=10s
  DefaultStartLimitBurst=5

are usually in place via /etc/systemd/system.conf.

This means that freeradius is restarted every 5s, but it would have to
be restarted 5 times in 10s to be marked FAILED.

I suggest setting StartLimitIntervalSec=30s in freeradius.service, so
that restarts will be aborted and the unit marked as failed if it is
being restarted more than 5 times in 30s. You may want to make that 60s.

Does that make sense?

Florian

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