Bug#1066983: monopd: Fails to start monopd.service

[Markus Koschany]

Sylvain Rochet wrote:
> Actually, the main problem is /lib/systemd/system/monopd.socket which 
> set Accept=yes while monopd needs Accept=no (which is the default value).

I wonder if monopd needs a systemd socket file at all and if we should disable
the service after the installation. We have been using this setting since the
introduction of systemd. If monopd runs with Accept=no then we also don't need
a service template file. At some point I also noticed the same warning as
Shriram

"monopd.socket is a disabled or a static unit not running, not starting it." 
and then followed [1] and added the required template file.

I have been running monopd for the past decade and I also suspect the daemon is
affected by some bugs which might be remotely exploitable. Since users usually
don't need the monopd server anyway, if they want to play a game, they should
make a conscious decision to start it if they want to use it locally. For a
simple internet game, the daemon is not required.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.socket.html
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