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Package: userv
Version: 1.2.0
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
I thought it might be useful to have a systemd service file available
for userv; the attached is what I used on RHEL (which lacks
start-stop-daemon so I couldn't just pinch the sysvinit file).
Regards,
Matthew
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers bionic-updates
APT policy: (500, 'bionic-updates'), (500, 'bionic-security'), (500,
'bionic'), (100, 'bionic-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-34-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages userv depends on:
ii libc6 2.27-3ubuntu1
userv recommends no packages.
userv suggests no packages.
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>From c04025708adaf98ad4a4e7ac12bf97c9d7d0a240 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Vernon <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 13:50:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add a systemd service file for userv
This endeavours to do what the sysvinit file does - create
/var/run/userv iff necessary and start uservd -daemon.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Vernon <[email protected]>
---
debian/rules | 2 ++
debian/userv.service | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 debian/userv.service
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 67c5271..d1506a8 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -42,9 +42,11 @@ binary-arch: checkroot build
install -d $t/etc/userv/{override,default}.d
install -d $t/usr/share/doc/$(package)/examples/
install -d $t/usr/share/lintian/overrides/
+ install -d $t/lib/systemd/system/
install -m 755 debian/{postinst,prerm,postrm} $t/DEBIAN/.
install -m 644 debian/conffiles $t/DEBIAN/.
install -m 755 debian/initd $t/etc/init.d/userv
+ install -m 644 debian/userv.service $t/lib/systemd/system/
$(MAKE) $(INSTOPTS) $(makebuildargs) \
prefix=$t/usr etcdir=$t/etc \
docdir=$t/usr/share/doc/userv \
diff --git a/debian/userv.service b/debian/userv.service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ecf7c38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/userv.service
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=User services (security boundary) daemon
+After=syslog.target remote-fs.target
+
+[Service]
+Type=forking
+ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c 'test -d /var/run/userv || mkdir -m700 /var/run/userv'
+ExecStart=/usr/sbin/uservd -daemon
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
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2.17.1
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: userv
Source-Version: 1.2.3
Done: Ian Jackson <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
userv, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Ian Jackson <[email protected]> (supplier of updated userv
package)
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:41:09 +0000
Source: userv
Architecture: source
Version: 1.2.3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Ian Jackson <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Ian Jackson <[email protected]>
Closes: 939573 1110360
Changes:
userv (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=medium
.
Many packaging etc. improvementse from Ben Harris:
* Enable Debian Salsa CI with standard configuration as .gitlab-ci.yml
* Run t-persist test with service user as root as well.
* Set FORCE_SOURCE_DATE in debian/rules. Closes: #1110360.
* userv.service: Add Documentation=
* userv.service: remove After=remote-fs.service
* userv.service: use RuntimeDirectory= to create /run/userv
* userv.service: set SuccessExitStatus=1
* Install upstream systemd unit file. Closes: #939573.
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