wf...@debian.org writes: > Craig Small <csm...@debian.org> writes: > >> Also, how confident are you writing unit files? I can write them but must >> admit I don't fully understand some of the more exotic features such as >> socket activation. > > My on-hands experience with socket activation is rather limited, but the > concept is not new, inetd did the trick in a more limited way. The > technology is widely used and there's even a short snmptrapd.socket > upstream, albeit with a somewhat confusing comment about matching. > > Aside, I'd recommend using Type=exec everywhere instead of (the default) > Type=simple for the sake of better error reporting.
I opened https://salsa.debian.org/debian/net-snmp/-/merge_requests/8 with all these changes and more. And with a new autopkgtest. :) >> The net-snmp upstream seems to think you only should do socket >> activation for snmptrapd only, but I think you are only targeting that >> one anyway. > > Yes. Turns out the upstream socket activation code does not include UDP. I addressed that in the merge request as well. Unfortunately this makes the change rather bigger than I expected originally. -- Regards, Feri
