Package: sympa
Version: 6.2.40~dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
when using sysvinit, restarting sympa leaves the system with
the sympa daemons not running.
root@host:~# service sympa restart
[....] Stoping Sympa mailing list manager: archivedstart-stop-daemon: matching
only on non-root pidfile /run/sympa/archived.pid is insecure
bouncedstart-stop-daemon: matching only on non-root pidfile
/run/sympa/bounced.pid is insecure
bulkstart-stop-daemon: matching only on non-root pidfile /run/sympa/bulk.pid
is insecure
task_managerstart-stop-daemon: matching only on non-root pidfile
/run/sympa/task_manager.pid is insecure
sympa_msgstart-stop-daemon: matching only on non-root pidfile
/run/sympa/sympa_msg.pid is insecure
Bug #921557 is relevant here.
Attached is a patch to fix this.
Best regards, Roel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
-- debconf information excluded
diff -pru a/sympa.init b/sympa.init
--- a/sympa.init 2020-09-26 08:05:48.164515651 +0200
+++ b/sympa.init 2020-09-26 08:11:00.340165016 +0200
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ stop_sympa() {
for daemon in $(reverse_order "$DAEMONS") ; do
log_progress_msg "$daemon"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry 5 \
+ --user "${USER}" \
--pidfile "${RUNDIR}/${daemon}.pid" || ERRORS="$ERRORS $daemon"
# It may happened that some processes are not tracked with
pidfiles.
# For example, with the parameter 'distribution_mode fork' used by
