[systemd-devel] 'PIDFile=' warning and override.conf

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Wed Aug 26 09:07:54 UTC 2020



Am 26.08.20 um 01:26 schrieb Richard Hector:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got the common warning:
> 
> /lib/systemd/system/fail2ban.service:12: PIDFile= references path below
> legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid →
> /run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid; please update the unit file accordingly.
> 
> I made the change in the relevant override.conf file, but that doesn't
> seem to work. Changing the 'real' one in /lib/systemd/system works.
> 
> Is that how it's supposed to be?
> 
> I'm using debian buster, with systemd package version 241-7~deb10u4

better writ ebugreports so that these sloppy mainatiners wake up and
read their own logfiles before throwing packages to users - it's the
same on Fedora and i simple don't get it

beides the fact that for 99.9% pidfiles are just useless at all


More information about the systemd-devel mailing list