tinc initialization (in both Red Hat and Debian families)

[Răzvan Sandu]

Hello all,


Thank you for tinc, that is an **excellent** and useful package!

Taking into account that both Red Hat and Debian (8.x) families now use
systemd, there is, IMHO, one small. but important correction to be done:
tinc's initialization.

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.



2. On Red Hat systems, an /etc/sysconfig/tinc file, as a standard place to
pass initialization parameters to the tincd daemon. For example, the
network name (-n) to be used.

A similar configuration file should exist in Debian, but I'm less familiar
with the Debian initialization scheme.


As a long time CentOS and Fedora user, I may confirm such a systemd
initialization mechanism is still not present in CentOS 7.x (EPEL) or
Fedora 22. And I suspect that the situation is no better in soon-to-be
Fedora 23 (already beta stage, final will be available in October).

Please see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078237
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261717


Thanks a lot!


Best & friendly regards,
Răzvan
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