Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support
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- Subject: Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support
- From: kjonca@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca)
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:28:42 +0200
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- In-reply-to: <wKcDf-49r-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (Jonathan Dowland's message of "Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:20:01 +0200")
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Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 09:09:38AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>>Thanks for passing that along: I'm using it with Exim and haven't
>>noticed this particular problem, but it's useful to know it could
>>happen.
>
> Ah, because I have User=nobody, and so the systemd sub-process can't
> reap the privileged exim4 sub-process.
This is irrelevant.
Only processes spawned from "--user" units are safe.
Processes spawned from system units are killed regardless of 'User="
stanza. (I observed this on units with "User=news")
KJ
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