Am 14.11.19 um 14:01 schrieb Leon Fauster:
Am 13.11.19 um 20:44 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen:
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 at 17:06, Ingvar Hagelund
> <ingvar(a)redpill-linpro.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> This was discussed at today's EPEL meeting and approved. Please push
> this to epel-testing and let users know in any tickets that it can be
> used there. After that, push to stable after regular feedback time.
>
>
I'd really appreciate if it could also be branched into EPEL8?
Thanks for pushing it into fedora-epel/testing/8/ !
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Leon