[arch-dev-public] Preparing OpenVPN 2.4.x - possible incompatible changes

[Christian Hesse]

Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> on Sun, 2016/11/27 13:20:
> Sébastien Luttringer <seblu at seblu.net> on Sun, 2016/11/27 03:55:
> > On Sat, 2016-11-26 at 13:38 +0100, Christian Hesse wrote:  
> > > 
> > > Any opinion about this change? Who can post news about this on the
> > > website?    
> >
> > The switch from Type=forking to simple will break units which rely on
> > proper ordering of subnets added by that tunnel. That look as a
> > regression to me.  
> 
> Can you give more detail on that?
> 
> For me route-up scripts broke... With Type=simple it is no longer allow to
> send dnsmasq a SIGHUP to flush its cache.

Apparently the units do not have CAP_KILL, so my script failed sending SIGHUP
to dnsmasq. Probably this is just find...
I solved this by sending ClearCache command to dnsmasq via dbus.

So still interested in details of your issue...
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