Re: PSA: Systemd will kill PostgreSQL

On 11 July 2016 at 17:49, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de> wrote:

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> --On 11. Juli 2016 13:25:51 +0800 Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> wrote:
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> > Perhaps by uid threshold in login.defs?
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> systemd's configure.ac has this:
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> AC_ARG_WITH(system-uid-max,
> AS_HELP_STRING([--with-system-uid-max=UID]
> [Maximum UID for system users]),
> [SYSTEM_UID_MAX="$withval"],
> [SYSTEM_UID_MAX="`awk 'BEGIN { uid=999 } /^\s*SYS_UID_MAX\s+/ {
> uid=$2 } END { print uid }' /etc/login.defs 2>/dev/null || echo 999`"])
>
> so yes, it's the definition from there.
>

At COMPILE TIME?

W.T.F?

In the thread about this, someone even says that's a bad idea. The systemd
folks aren't really big on listening, though...

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