Re: [Netatalk-admins] [BUG]? apfd requires default config files

[Louis G. <lgu...@be...>]

Didier wrote:
> Hi,
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:39:10 -0400, Louis Guillaume wrote
>> Today I noticed some strangeness in afpd.
>>
>> If I configure afpd to start with -F /xxx/xxx/xx it still requires that
>> /etc/netatalk/afpd.conf be present. Otherwise the daemon fails to start.
> 
> What netatalk version do you use and how do you start it? I can't reproduce
> it, afpd -F foo starts without /etc/netatalk/afpd.conf
> 

It's version netatalk-2.0.3 running on RedHat EL 4 ES. We compiled from
source using NetBSD's pkgsrc system...

--enable-netbsd  --enable-overwrite  --enable-timelord
--libexecdir=/usr/pkg/libexec/netatalk
--sbindir=/usr/pkg/libexec/netatalk  --with-pkgconfdir=/etc/netatalk
--with-message-dir=/etc/netatalk/msg  --localstatedir=/var/netatalk
--with-uams-path=/usr/pkg/libexec/netatalk/uams  --with-bdb=/usr/pkg
--with-ssl-dir=/usr/pkg --disable-cups --with-gssapi --enable-krbV-uam
--without-pam --disable-srvloc --prefix=/usr/pkg --host=i386-pc-linux
--mandir=/usr/pkg/man


>> The same goes for AppleVolumes.system and AppleVolumes.default and 
>> the `-s' and `-f' options, respectively.
> 
>> The really bad thing is that afpd does NOT throw an error if the 
>> files specified by `-F', `-f', or `-s' are missing! It continues to 
>> run with the (potentially) wrong configuration.
> Yes in this case it uses default values.
> 
> Exiting on missing -F would make sense but what do we do on kill -1 (which
> reloads config file) if it's not there anymore?
> 

Hmm. What happens if the default files are all of a sudden missing on a
HUP? Maybe the same behaviour would be best.

> For -f and -s they are not needed on startup. Would a syslog warning be ok?
> 

Perhaps yes. In fact it would probably be fine to just describe this
behaviour in the man page.

Thank you for looking at this.

Louis