Re: systemd service and /etc/default/

[Ralf Jung <post@ralfj.de>]

Hi,

>> 3) Teach ntopng to understand /etc/ntopng.conf natively and migrate the
>> settings there.
>> 4) Teach ntopng to automatically detect the available network devices on
>> the system (including new ones that show up dynamically) and
>> automatically handle all of them unless configured to do otherwise,
>> making configuration usually unnecessary.
> 
> Please. The attitute of requiring Debian maintainers to modify
> upstream software instead of having simple two-line extension to an
> init script is really unfriendly. Why do only systemd friends keep
> recommending this?

It seems the upstream package lacks basic means of configuration (like,
parsing a list of interface identifiers) and is not able to cope with
network interfaces that come or go at run-time. Of course every
distribution can re-create their own (and probably differing) solutions
to this problem - but fixing the issue upstream should really be preferred.

Kind regards
Ralf