On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 at 17:06, Ingvar Hagelund <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> hitch is a TLS terminating network proxy, made to be lean and mean and do 
> nothing else than terminating TLS. It fits hand-in-glove with varnish cache. 
> I maintain hitch in Fedora and EPEL.
>
> There is a bug in the current epel7 config that is fixed in the latest 
> rawhide update. In short, the bug is that with the default config, hitch 
> forks a daemon, while the systemd hitch service says Type=simple. See 
> Bugzilla bug #1731420.
>
> The fedora update fixes the problem by changing the systemd service to 
> Type=forking.
>
> There were two ways to get around the bug:
>
> - Set daemon=off in hitch.conf. That file is marked with noreplace, so the 
> update will not overwrite this fix. As this does not match the updated 
> Type=forking in hitch.service, hitch will not start after the update.
>
> - Set Type=forking in hitch.service. This is the same fix as in the update, 
> so this should be safe.
>
> Also, the Fedora update adds a systemd limits.conf including 
> LimitNOFILE=10240 that is important, as the default value (1024) would trig 
> network problems on a medium busy site (true story).
>
> Is it safe to push this update to epel7?

This was discussed at today's EPEL meeting and approved. Please push
this to epel-testing and let users know in any tickets that it can be
used there. After that, push to stable after regular feedback time.



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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