Package: policyd-weight
Version: 0.1.15.2-13
Severity: important
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dear Maintainer,
i installed policyd-weight on a fresh debian 13 machine.
after installation, i wondered why the service was not running and
checked status with `systemctl status policyd-weight.service`, which
gave this output:
○ policyd-weight.service - Perl policy daemon for the Postfix MTA
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/policyd-weight.service; enabled;
preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2025-11-11 23:23:27 CET; 5min ago
Duration: 234ms
Invocation: 78d1487c15714713b7d8910bdb240dfb
Docs: man:policyd-weight(8)
Process: 1631 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/policyd-weight -D $DAEMON_OPTS
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 1635 ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -f /var/run/policyd-weight.pid
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1631 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Mem peak: 18M
CPU: 204ms
Nov 11 23:23:27 dev systemd[1]: Started policyd-weight.service - Perl policy
daemon for the Postfix MTA.
Nov 11 23:23:27 dev (d-weight)[1631]: policyd-weight.service: Referenced but
unset environment variable evaluates to an empty string: DAEMON_OPTS
Nov 11 23:23:27 dev systemd[1]: policyd-weight.service: Deactivated
successfully.
stopping/starting/restarting the service resulted in the same state.
manually executing the start command `/usr/sbin/policyd-weight -D` (as
$DAEMON_OPTS is unset by default) gave no output and never finished.
i think that the ExecStart command in
/usr/lib/systemd/system/policyd-weight.service is missing the `start`
argument.
the service starts as expected, if i change it from
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/policyd-weight -D $DAEMON_OPTS
to
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/policyd-weight -D $DAEMON_OPTS start
as `systemctl status policyd-weight.service` shows:
● policyd-weight.service - Perl policy daemon for the Postfix MTA
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/policyd-weight.service; enabled;
preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2025-11-11 23:55:51 CET; 3min 37s ago
Invocation: ac119a5028f9447991c9c7b91cc75a55
Docs: man:policyd-weight(8)
Main PID: 2309 (policyd-weight )
Tasks: 2 (limit: 9486)
Memory: 19.2M (peak: 19.4M)
CPU: 195ms
CGroup: /system.slice/policyd-weight.service
├─2309 "policyd-weight (master)"
└─2312 "policyd-weight (cache)"
Nov 11 23:55:51 dev systemd[1]: Started policyd-weight.service - Perl policy
daemon for the Postfix MTA.
Nov 11 23:55:51 dev (d-weight)[2309]: policyd-weight.service: Referenced but
unset environment variable evaluates to an empty string: DAEMON_OPTS
Nov 11 23:55:51 dev postfix/policyd-weight[2309]: policyd-weight 0.1.15 beta-2
started and daemonized. conf:default settings; GID:106 106 EGID:106 106 UID:102
EUID:102; taint mode: 0
Nov 11 23:55:51 dev postfix/policyd-weight[2309]: cache_query: start: calling
spawn_cache()
Nov 11 23:55:51 dev postfix/policyd-weight[2312]: cache spawned
i am a little surprised about the version naming 0.1.15 "beta-2", though.
btw, `journalctl -eu policyd-weight.service` also warns about legacy run
dir at /var/run/:
Nov 11 23:22:50 dev systemd[1]:
/usr/lib/systemd/system/policyd-weight.service:7: PIDFile= references a path
below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/policyd-weight.pid →
/run/policyd-weight.pid; pl>
Nov 11 23:22:51 dev systemd[1]:
/usr/lib/systemd/system/policyd-weight.service:7: PIDFile= references a path
below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/policyd-weight.pid →
/run/policyd-weight.pid; pl>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages policyd-weight depends on:
ii adduser 3.152
ii init-system-helpers 1.69~deb13u1
ii libio-socket-inet6-perl 2.73-1
ii libnet-dns-perl 1.50-1
ii libnet-ip-perl 1.26-4
ii perl 5.40.1-6
Versions of packages policyd-weight recommends:
ii perl [libsys-syslog-perl] 5.40.1-6
policyd-weight suggests no packages.
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