Bug#778913: openssh-server: init (at least systemd) doesn't notice when sshd fails to start and reports success

[Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>]

Hi Colin!

On Tue, 12 May 2015 22:54:04 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:
> Am 12.05.2015 um 17:42 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > Am 12.05.2015 um 17:07 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> 
> >> As you can see, systemd tries to repeatedly start the service until it hits
> >> start-limit.
> >> We should use sd_notify in that case to pass a correct error code to systemd.
> > 
> > Or we could use what's been proposed by Colin, i.e.
> >  ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/sshd -t
> > or my
> >  RestartPreventExitStatus=255
> 
> Updated patch, adding RestartPreventExitStatus=, attached.
> 
> From my limited testing, seems to work fine here.

Now that jessie is out the door, it would be a great time to apply this
patch and solve this issue for good.

Did you have time for a review yet?

Cheers,
Michael

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