Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:10 AM,  <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:52 PM,  <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >> >> Hi.  I am looking for a couple of systemd units which I have not been
> >> >> able to find -- one for mailman and one for innd which is a shell script
> >> >> by itself.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >> >
> >> > I use this one in production for mailman with Gentoo:
> >> >
> >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> > [Unit]
> >> > Description=Mailman mailing list service
> >> > After=network.target
> >> >
> >> > [Service]
> >> > Type=forking
> >> > ExecStart=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s start
> >> > ExecStop=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl stop
> >> > User=mailman
> >> > Group=mailman
> >> >
> >> > [Install]
> >> > WantedBy=multi-user.target
> >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >
> >> > I don't have any for innd.
> >>
> >> If innd is the one from net-nntp/inn, then the following should work:
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> [Unit]
> >> Description=The Internet News daemon
> >> Documentation=man:innd(8)
> >> ConditionPathExists=/var/run/news
> >>
> >> [Service]
> >> Type=simple
> >> ExecStart=/usr/lib/news/bin/rc.news
> >> ExecStop=/usr/lib/news/bin/rc.news stop
> >> User=news
> >> Group=news
> >>
> >> [Install]
> >> WantedBy=multi-user.target
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> If the binary rc.news forks itself (and there is no option to force it
> >> to run in the foreground), use Type=forking. The former is preferred
> >> over the latter. Also, to guarantee that the directory /var/run/news
> >> always is present, add the following to a new file
> >> /etc/tmpfiles.d/innd.conf:
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> d    /var/run/news   0755 news news 10d -
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> You can replace 10d with - (hypen), so the directory is never cleaned
> >> automatically. If you try this unit and it works as expected, please
> >> let us know.
> >>
> >
> > OK, thanks again.  I have one question which this brings up -- and this
> > applies to openrc as well -- I never have let it migrate /var/run to
> > /run  and /var/lock likewise because I have directories in those which
> > are owned by various users, etc. and the packages themselves almost
> > never create such -- is putting things in  /etc/tmpfiles.d the correct
> > way to fix this?
>
> tmpfiles.d is from systemd:
>
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d.html
>
> However, I think OpenRC developers were thinking about supporting it.
> I don't know if that actually happened.
>
> With systemd in Gentoo, /var/run is bind mounted from /run, and it's a
> tmpfs dir, so everything there goes away after a reboot. The config
> files in tmpfiles.d allows the creation (and automatic removal) of
> directories and files there.
>
> I don't know if it's the "correct" way to fix anything; but it works.

It looks like openrc is supporting some version of this, but not very
well documented at all except they refer you to some man page as of a
certain date.


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