Issue creating systemd service files

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 05.03.13 19:48, David Highley (dhighley at highley-recommended.com) wrote:

> [Unit]
> Description=sshdfilter Daemon
> Documentation=file://usr/share/doc/sshdfilter-1.5.7/INSTALL.Fedora
> DefaultDependencies=no

DefaultDependencies=no is unlikely what you want here. That's an option
for early-boot stuff, not for normal services.

> 
> [Service]
> Type=forking
> PIDFile=/var/run/sshdfilter.SSHD.pid
> ExecStart=/sbin/sshdfilter
> NotifyAccess=all

This only makes sense if your daemon use sd_notify() from its C
code. Does it really?

> 
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
> 
> ============ sshdfilter.socket ===================
> 
> [Unit]
> Description=sshdfilter Named Pipe
> Documentation=file:///usr/share/doc/sshdfilter-1.5.7/INSTALL.Fedora
> DefaultDependencies=no

Same as above.

> After=syslog.target

Redundant, it's implied.

> [Socket]
> ListenFIFO=/var/run/sshdfilter.fifo
> SocketMode=0644

This suggests your service is actually socket-activatable via this
FIFO. Is it really?

Lennart

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