Hello
hitch is a TLS terminating network proxy, made to be lean and mean and do nothing else
than terminating TLS. It fits hand-in-glove with varnish cache. I maintain hitch in Fedora
and EPEL.
There is a bug in the current epel7 config that is fixed in the latest rawhide update. In
short, the bug is that with the default config, hitch forks a daemon, while the systemd
hitch service says Type=simple. See Bugzilla bug #1731420.
The fedora update fixes the problem by changing the systemd service to Type=forking.
There were two ways to get around the bug:
- Set daemon=off in hitch.conf. That file is marked with noreplace, so the update will not
overwrite this fix. As this does not match the updated Type=forking in hitch.service,
hitch will not start after the update.
- Set Type=forking in hitch.service. This is the same fix as in the update, so this should
be safe.
Also, the Fedora update adds a systemd limits.conf including LimitNOFILE=10240 that is
important, as the default value (1024) would trig network problems on a medium busy site
(true story).
Is it safe to push this update to epel7?
Ingvar