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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:41 AM, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:46 AM, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > |
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>> >> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:10 AM, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> >> > Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> >> > |
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>> >> >> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> >> >> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:52 PM, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> >> >> >> Hi. I am looking for a couple of systemd units which I have not been |
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>> >> >> >> able to find -- one for mailman and one for innd which is a shell script |
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>> >> >> >> by itself. |
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>> >> >> >> |
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>> >> >> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions. |
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>> >> >> > |
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>> >> >> > I use this one in production for mailman with Gentoo: |
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>> >> >> > |
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>> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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>> >> >> > [Unit] |
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>> >> >> > Description=Mailman mailing list service |
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>> >> >> > After=network.target |
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>> >> >> > |
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>> >> >> > [Service] |
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>> >> >> > Type=forking |
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>> >> >> > ExecStart=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s start |
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>> >> >> > ExecStop=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl stop |
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>> >> >> > User=mailman |
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>> >> >> > Group=mailman |
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>> >> >> > |
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>> >> >> > [Install] |
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>> >> >> > WantedBy=multi-user.target |
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>> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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>> >> >> > |
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>> >> >> > I don't have any for innd. |
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>> >> >> |
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>> >> >> If innd is the one from net-nntp/inn, then the following should work: |
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>> >> >> |
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>> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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>> >> >> [Unit] |
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>> >> >> Description=The Internet News daemon |
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>> >> >> Documentation=man:innd(8) |
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>> >> >> ConditionPathExists=/var/run/news |
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>> >> >> |
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>> >> >> [Service] |
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>> >> >> Type=simple |
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>> >> >> ExecStart=/usr/lib/news/bin/rc.news |
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>> >> >> ExecStop=/usr/lib/news/bin/rc.news stop |
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>> >> >> User=news |
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>> >> >> Group=news |
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>> >> >> |
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>> >> >> [Install] |
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>> >> >> WantedBy=multi-user.target |
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>> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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>> >> >> If the binary rc.news forks itself (and there is no option to force it |
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>> >> >> to run in the foreground), use Type=forking. The former is preferred |
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>> >> >> over the latter. Also, to guarantee that the directory /var/run/news |
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>> >> >> always is present, add the following to a new file |
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>> >> >> /etc/tmpfiles.d/innd.conf: |
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>> >> >> |
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>> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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>> >> >> d /var/run/news 0755 news news 10d - |
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>> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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>> >> >> |
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>> >> >> You can replace 10d with - (hypen), so the directory is never cleaned |
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>> >> >> automatically. If you try this unit and it works as expected, please |
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>> >> >> let us know. |
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>> >> >> |
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>> >> > |
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>> >> > OK, thanks again. I have one question which this brings up -- and this |
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>> >> > applies to openrc as well -- I never have let it migrate /var/run to |
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>> >> > /run and /var/lock likewise because I have directories in those which |
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>> >> > are owned by various users, etc. and the packages themselves almost |
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>> >> > never create such -- is putting things in /etc/tmpfiles.d the correct |
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>> >> > way to fix this? |
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>> >> |
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>> >> tmpfiles.d is from systemd: |
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>> >> |
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>> >> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d.html |
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>> >> |
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>> >> However, I think OpenRC developers were thinking about supporting it. |
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>> >> I don't know if that actually happened. |
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>> >> |
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>> >> With systemd in Gentoo, /var/run is bind mounted from /run, and it's a |
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>> >> tmpfs dir, so everything there goes away after a reboot. The config |
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>> >> files in tmpfiles.d allows the creation (and automatic removal) of |
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>> >> directories and files there. |
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>> >> |
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>> >> I don't know if it's the "correct" way to fix anything; but it works. |
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>> > Can I use the d action to change the permissions of an existing |
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>> > directory and if not, how can I do this? |
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>> I don't think so. The contents of /run (and /var/run before it) are, |
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>> by definition, used only at run time. They are not intended to be |
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>> preserved, and they actually should be cleaned from time to time |
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>> (hence the age field in tmpfiles.d). Therefore tmpfiles.d only deals |
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>> with creation (and cleaning up) of files/directories, not "updating" |
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>> them, since they should not be even present when the system boots up. |
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>> The files in /etc/tmpfiles.d are used by the systemd-tmpfiles-* units, |
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>> and (AFAIU) they only create files/directories at boot time, and then |
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>> only clean afterwards. |
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>> My /run directory is really empty. When my systems boot up, systemd |
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>> mounts a tmpfs on it: |
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>> # mount | grep "on /run" |
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>> tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=755) |
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>> Then the var-run.mount unit binds mount /run into /var/run. So no |
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>> file/directory there is actually written into any physical disk ever. |
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> But I need to change the permissions of /var/lock to 777, if I can't use |
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> tmpfiles.d how can I do this? |
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chmod 777 /var/lock? I don't understand the question. What program do |
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you need that requires universal writing access for /var/lock? In my |
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systems, /var/lock is either bind mounted from /run/lock, or a soft |
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link to /run/lock, and /run/lock is root:root and 755. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |