Hi Simon, Thanks for your reply.
Excerpts from Simon Kelley's message of 2011-09-02 17:04:54 +0200: > > • It runs dnsmasq as user 'dnsmasq' - I missed this one and we can easily > > add > > it to the service file (User=dnsmasq in the [Service] section). > > Simon, what do you think? Is running dnsmasq as user dnsmasq by default a > > sensible decision? > > Yes, it is. Alright, I will change the service file to do that. > > • LANG gets set if it is defined in /etc/default/locale. I’m not sure what > > the > > effects of that are (I don’t set LANG on my system, I prefer the LC_* > > settings). Does it somehow affect the behaviour of dnsmasq when > > resolving? > > If so, how? > > It affects the charset used when reading internationalised domain names > from configuration files and the translation used for messages. It's needed. OK. I think this could be done with EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/locale. I will test it and add it (including a comment on why it is necessary). > There are none which can't be changed from the configuration file, and > most of the environment variables are indeed obsolete: The non-obsolete > ones are documented in the /etc/default/dnsmasq file. > > 1) set the domain to the system value > 2) use a different configuration file. > 3) set a couple of options which are needed by the Debian installation, > without requiring the user to have them in the configuration file. > These are the dnsmasq user, and the CONFIG_DIR value. Will look at those tomorrow, got to go now. > The initscript sleeps for a couple of seconds between stopping and then > starting the daemon on a restart. That is necessary. You consider that functionality? It sounds wrong. Why exactly is it necessary? :) Best regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
