Public bug reported: This is on a new installation of Ubuntu 16.04 xenial with Varnish 4.1.1-1.
Any modification of /etc/default/varnish is being ignored by the daemon. Turns out that all the values are fixed in the systemd service of varnish (/lib/systemd/system/varnish.service): -------------------------------------------- [Unit] Description=Varnish HTTP accelerator Documentation=https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.1/ man:varnishd [Service] Type=simple LimitNOFILE=131072 LimitMEMLOCK=82000 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/varnishd -j unix,user=vcache -F -a :6081 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret -s malloc,256m ExecReload=/usr/share/varnish/reload-vcl ProtectSystem=full ProtectHome=true PrivateTmp=true PrivateDevices=true [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target -------------------------------------------- ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: varnish 4.1.1-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Apr 22 14:07:10 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-18 (4 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160325) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: varnish UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) mtime.conffile..etc.default.varnish: 2016-04-22T14:01:03.786366 ** Affects: varnish (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial ** Summary changed: - /etc/default/varnish is ignored (fixed in systemd service) + /etc/default/varnish is ignored (fixed values in systemd service) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1573561 Title: /etc/default/varnish is ignored (fixed values in systemd service) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/varnish/+bug/1573561/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs