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