tinc initialization (in both Red Hat and Debian families)

[Martin]

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, Răzvan 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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