Package: tinyproxy Version: 1.10.0-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
after installing tinyproxy for the first time on Debian 11.1 (bullseye), I looked at the defaults or environment file /etc/default/tinyproxy. It contains the following comment: > # If running under systemd, please make sure to uncomment > # both variables below! > #CONFIG="/etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf" > #FLAGS="-c $CONFIG" Ok, so I did just that and the result is that tinyproxy fails to start. The problem is that variables within variables are not expanded by systemd, so tinyproxy complains it cannot find the configuration file $CONFIG. In addition, the file suggests to append more command arguments by appending the variable like so: > FLAGS="$FLAGS ..." That however will not work either for the same reason. So this entire defaults/environment file is broken for systemd. I would suggest to change the systemd unit to execute: ExecStart=/usr/bin/tinyproxy $CONFIG $FLAGS and change the defaults file to something like this: #CONFIG="-c /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf" #FLAGS="... extra options go here ..." Even if both variables are commented out/unset or the environment file is not found, tinyproxy will start if there is a configuration file in the default location. I'm still puzzled, however, about what extra options one would use in the FLAGS variable. tinyproxy doesn't have a lot of options according to the man page. The only useful options are "-c" and "-d" when tinyproxy is supposed to actually run. But "-d" won't work with the systemd service Type=forking directive. So, if someone wanted to use "-d" for debugging purposes they'd either have to change the systemd unit file (in which case they might as well just add the option there" or simply bypass systemd and start the executable directly. So the examples in /etc/default/tinyproxy might be simplified altogether... Thanks and regards, Timo -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages tinyproxy depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii logrotate 3.18.0-2 ii lsb-base 11.1.0 ii tinyproxy-bin 1.10.0-5 tinyproxy recommends no packages. tinyproxy suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/tinyproxy changed: FLAGS="-c /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf" /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf changed: User tinyproxy Group tinyproxy Port 8443 Listen 192.168.122.10 Timeout 60 Syslog On LogLevel Notice PidFile "/run/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.pid" MaxClients 3 MinSpareServers 1 MaxSpareServers 2 StartServers 1 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 Allow 192.168.218.10 ViaProxyName "tinyproxy" Filter "/etc/tinyproxy/filter" FilterDefaultDeny Yes ConnectPort 443 -- no debconf information
