I`m having problems with running haproxy 1.8 on CentOS 7.4 and originally I planned to post my setup, logs and more. But while thinking about this I started to doubt that what I am trying is correct. Let me explain what I'm doing, perhaps there is a better approach which solves my problem automatically.
I start with a plain install of CentOS 7.4 on which I "yum install" the current version that CentOS provides (1.5). Then I replace /usr/sbin/haproxy with a statically linked version of haproxy 1.8.3 (statically because I want a newer version of openssl 1.1 for example). This new haproxy runs fine as long as I don't run it with systemd. When I do a "systemctl start haproxy" it silently fails to load haproxy. So my basic first question is: shall I try to (with your help) fix this or should I remove the then current haproxy wrapper and have systemd run haproxy directly ? If necessary / helpful I can provide information about my logs and the way I compile haproxy, but first I wanted to hear your opinions.
