yep, that race condition is exactly what i was experiencing. I'm not sure why having the systemd notify code in openssh as a configure time option would be such a bad thing. --- Regards, Kevin Martin On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:45 AM Jakub Jelen <jjelen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2018-08-22 at 09:02 -0500, kevin martin wrote: > > Simple seems to have fixed it. I was also trying with "forking" as > > the > > type and that was failing as well. > > That is not as simple as that -- we lived with "simple" for long time, > but it was not covering some corner cases so we ended up using the > sd_notify, since that was the only reliable way for systemd to know the > service is working. > > For others interested in this topic, there was a long discussion in bug > #2641, unfortunately without upstream solution: > > https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2641 > > Regards, > -- > Jakub Jelen > Software Engineer > Security Technologies > Red Hat, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev