Package: ddclient Version: 3.8.3-1.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Please consider shipping a native systemd service masking the init script (fixing lintian tag[1] in subject). I'm attaching the service file I've quickly thrown together and works for me. Please note that I've spent about 5 minutes on this in total including installing ddclient for the first time and figuring out how to actually get it to work with freedns.afraid.org (see #793066). While looking at the init script I noticed it's affected by the "ENABLED" /etc/default anti-pattern[2]. Please drop this code and instead just disable the service when it's not wanted. Finally, the attached service could be extended with some security hardening settings[3]. Please also note that I set the default/fallback value of daemon_interval to 900 (rather than 300) in the service file because of #489997. (Debconf defaulting to 300 will still apply though, so you should probably consider changing the default to a higher value in debconf.) Regards, Andreas Henriksson [1]: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-script.html [2]: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/init.d-script-should-always-start-service.html [3]: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/systemd-service-file-missing-hardening-features.html
[Unit] Documentation=man:ddclient(8) Description=Update dynamic domain name service entries After=network-online.target Wants=network-online.target [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/run/ddclient.pid Environment=daemon_interval=900 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/ddclient ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c 'if [ "$run_daemon" != "true" ]; then echo "To run ddclient as a daemon, please set run_daemon to 'true' in /etc/default/ddclient" ; exit 1 ; fi' ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ddclient -daemon $daemon_interval -nosyslog -pid /run/ddclient.pid Restart=on-failure [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
