Bug 480042

Summary:	net-dns/dnsmasq - systemd unit file improvement
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mehmet Giritli <mehmet>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Patrick McLean <chutzpah>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	martin, randy, systemd
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371871
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mehmet Giritli 2013-08-07 11:15:27 UTC

I'd like to suggest addition of the following lines to the dnsmasq.service file:

First, I suggest adding

After=network.target

in [Unit]. Otherwise I was having dnsmasq boot startup problems with interfaces no being ready yet.

Secondly, I'd suggest adding user and group info for the process to run:

ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dnsmasq -k --user=dnsmasq --group=dnsmasq

Note that this is already the "old" behaviour with openrc init file.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Patrick McLean gentoo-dev

2013-08-07 23:10:48 UTC

I have no idea about systemd, CCing the systemd herd.

What do you guys think? If you agree please attach the new unit file and I will include it next time I do a version bump (there should be a new version coming out soon).

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2013-09-21 13:59:13 UTC

(In reply to Mehmet Giritli from comment #0)
> I'd like to suggest addition of the following lines to the dnsmasq.service
> file:
> 
> First, I suggest adding
> 
> After=network.target
> 
> in [Unit]. Otherwise I was having dnsmasq boot startup problems with
> interfaces no being ready yet.

Your are true, the line would be:
After=network.target

Just after "Description" line and under "Unit" part

> 
> Secondly, I'd suggest adding user and group info for the process to run:
> 
> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dnsmasq -k --user=dnsmasq --group=dnsmasq
> 
> Note that this is already the "old" behaviour with openrc init file.
> 
> Reproducible: Always

I don't know how is this being done downstream on gentoo -> in other distributions they don't specify the user and group but, if we are needing that, no problem with changing ExecStart in that way

Comment 3 Patrick McLean gentoo-dev

2013-12-10 19:55:51 UTC

Done in net-dns/dnsmasq-2.68

Comment 4 Martin Väth 2014-06-21 08:41:48 UTC

There are two issues with this fix:

1. I think the correct target for current systemd should be After=network-online.target (at least, I still had the same problems with After=network.target).

2. Why is in $FILESDIR the same file twice with only a different name?

Should I reopen or file a new bug?