tinc - Sep 2015 - tinc initialization (in both Red Hat and Debian families)

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 05:45:36PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 05:51:30PM +0300, R?zvan Sandu wrote:
> 
> > IMHO, we need:
> > 
> > 1. A proper tinc.service file, included by default (prepackaged) in
the
> > stock .deb and .rpm packages in Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.
> > 
> > By "proper" I mean it will start tinc at the correct time
during system's
> > initialization, have proper permissions, etc.
I had already experimented with systemd service files before, I just
added them to the 1.1 branch. You can see them here:

http://tinc-vpn.org/git/browse?p=tinc;a=tree;f=systemd;hb=refs/heads/1.1

There are two service files; tinc at .service
and tinc.service. The first is a template that allows you to enable and
start/stop individual instances of tinc, like in:

systemctl enable tinc at foo
systemctl start tinc at foo

This starts tincd -n foo. The second service file is itself a dummy, but
all template instances are slaved to this one (using PartOf), so you can
start/stop all tinc daemons in one go, like:

systemctl start tinc

Let me know if these work for you or not.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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Would it not make more sense to have this on packagers responsiblity
instead like you were saying adding it into the upstream repo.
Maybe have a secondary repo that people can contribute to for distribution
specific files and install scripts.


On 24 September 2015 at 21:30, Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 05:45:36PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 05:51:30PM +0300, R?zvan Sandu wrote:
> >
> > > IMHO, we need:
> > >
> > > 1. A proper tinc.service file, included by default (prepackaged)
in the
> > > stock .deb and .rpm packages in Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS,
etc.
> > >
> > > By "proper" I mean it will start tinc at the correct
time during
> system's
> > > initialization, have proper permissions, etc.
>
> I had already experimented with systemd service files before, I just
> added them to the 1.1 branch. You can see them here:
>
> http://tinc-vpn.org/git/browse?p=tinc;a=tree;f=systemd;hb=refs/heads/1.1
>
> There are two service files; tinc at .service
> and tinc.service. The first is a template that allows you to enable and
> start/stop individual instances of tinc, like in:
>
> systemctl enable tinc at foo
> systemctl start tinc at foo
>
> This starts tincd -n foo. The second service file is itself a dummy, but
> all template instances are slaved to this one (using PartOf), so you can
> start/stop all tinc daemons in one go, like:
>
> systemctl start tinc
>
> Let me know if these work for you or not.
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
>      Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
>
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:50:14PM +0100, Martin wrote:
> Would it not make more sense to have this on packagers responsiblity
> instead like you were saying adding it into the upstream repo.
Systemd at least tries to ensure you can write service files that should
work the same on all distributions. So they are not distribution specific.
> Maybe have a secondary repo that people can contribute to for distribution
> specific files and install scripts.
I would rather have people contribute those specific files and scripts
directly to the distribution they are intended for.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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