Control: tag -1 document that HOST-up scrips stop tinc while running Control: severity -1 minor
Hi Guus, Am Mittwoch, den 14.05.2014, 14:29 +0200 schrieb Guus Sliepen: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:57:22PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > I think I might have found my issue. In /etc/tinc/NETNAME/hosts/HOST-up > > I have "exim4 -qff" to send out possibly queued mail. Until 1.0.23, that > > never caused problems. > > > > It seems that in 1.0.24, the HOST-up script is run before the network is > > actually available and fully set up. This means that exim4 tries to > > connect the server in vain and waits for rather long timeouts. Only when > > I "killall exim4" (and the HOST-up script finishes) the tinc tunnel > > suddenly becomes available. > > All the scripts are run synchronously by tinc, i.e. tinc stops doing > anything until the script is finished. So if you put anything in the > scripts that need to access the VPN, you need to make sure those > commands are run in the background (add an &). This has always been the > case, I'm not sure why you didn't have problems before. interesting, and good question why it did not cause problems before. So while HOST-up scripts are running, tinc does not even transmit data over the VPN? That is quite different from, say, /etc/network/eth0/up and should probably at least be documented in the manpage. Thanks, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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