Bug#850180: mdadm: systemd units do not obey /etc/default/mdadm, esp DAEMON_OPTIONS=--syslog
On Wed, 04 Jan 2017 13:42:42 -0500 Matthew Gabeler-Lee wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 3.4-4 > Severity: normal > > I had some recent array events, notified by email (worked), and was trying > to look up when the recovery finished in syslog, only to discover that the > mdadm array monitor is not logging to syslog. This seems to be because the > systemd unit and/or initramfs support (not sure which) that started the > monitor daemon does not obey (or even look at?) /etc/default/mdadm, where I > have: > > DAEMON_OPTIONS="--syslog" The canonical way to override the behaviour of systemd units is via drop-in config snippets. The usage of EnvironmentFile= is discouraged. /etc/default/$pkg is a kludge which was introduced to make SysV init scripts extensible. That said, it would probably be a good idea to add a comment to /etc/default/mdadm, that this file is only used by the SysV init script, to avoid confusion. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#850180: mdadm: systemd units do not obey /etc/default/mdadm, esp DAEMON_OPTIONS=--syslog
Package: mdadm Version: 3.4-4+b1 Followup-For: Bug #850180 The DAEMON_OPTIONS bit of this is trivially corrected with this patch: --- mdmonitor.service.orig 2017-09-26 00:54:25.491632797 -0400 +++ /lib/systemd/system/mdmonitor.service 2017-09-26 00:54:29.047611746 -0400 @@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ DefaultDependencies=no [Service] -ExecStart=/sbin/mdadm --monitor --scan +EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/mdadm +ExecStart=/sbin/mdadm --monitor --scan $DAEMON_OPTIONS -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (490, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages mdadm depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii udev 232-25+deb9u1 Versions of packages mdadm recommends: ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.89-2+deb9u1 ii kmod 23-2 mdadm suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/cron.daily/mdadm changed [not included] -- debconf information excluded
Bug#850180: mdadm: systemd units do not obey /etc/default/mdadm, esp DAEMON_OPTIONS=--syslog
Package: mdadm Version: 3.4-4 Severity: normal I had some recent array events, notified by email (worked), and was trying to look up when the recovery finished in syslog, only to discover that the mdadm array monitor is not logging to syslog. This seems to be because the systemd unit and/or initramfs support (not sure which) that started the monitor daemon does not obey (or even look at?) /etc/default/mdadm, where I have: DAEMON_OPTIONS="--syslog" I think this is even the default. Whereas mdmonitor.service has only: [Unit] Description=MD array monitor DefaultDependencies=no [Service] ExecStart=/sbin/mdadm --monitor --scan -- Package-specific info: --- mdadm.conf CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes HOMEHOST cheetah.fastcat.org MAILADDR root ARRAY --- /etc/default/mdadm AUTOCHECK=true START_DAEMON=true DAEMON_OPTIONS="--syslog" VERBOSE=false Auto-generated on Wed, 04 Jan 2017 13:31:06 -0500 by mdadm bugscript -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages mdadm depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii udev 232-8 Versions of packages mdadm recommends: ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.88~RC6-2 ii kmod 23-1 mdadm suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/cron.daily/mdadm changed [not included] -- debconf information: mdadm/initrdstart_notinconf: false * mdadm/start_daemon: true * mdadm/mail_to: root mdadm/initrdstart_msg_errexist: * mdadm/autocheck: true * mdadm/autostart: true mdadm/initrdstart_msg_errconf: mdadm/initrdstart_msg_errmd: * mdadm/warning: * mdadm/initrdstart: all mdadm/initrdstart_msg_intro: mdadm/initrdstart_msg_errblock: