[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#504605: Bug#504605: Bug#504605: libvirt-bin: README.Debian says dnsmasq should not be already running

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Thu Nov 13 08:26:25 UTC 2008


Hi Adeodato,
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 06:16:45PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 05:40:34PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > reopen 504605
> > thanks
> > 
> > * Guido Günther [Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:26:31 +0100]:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:21:02PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > > > I have interface=lo in my dnsmasq.conf, plus "bind-interfaces". However
> > > > you are right that stopping or restarting the main dnsmasq with the
> > > > init.d scripts kills the libvirt-bin dnsmasq, because the init.d script
> > > > kills all existing dnsmasq's (it assumes them to be children of the main
> > > > dnsmasq, and not standalone instances).
> > > So that would be a bug in dnsmasq then? Anyways, I think leaving the
> > > warning as is is fine since people might run into problems otherwise.
> > 
> > I'm not satisfied with closing this bug right now, since the text in
> > README.Debian is misleading: having a standard dnsmasq /can/ work nicely
> > with libvirt-bin. You could, perhaps, document that you need the
> > "bind-interfaces" option set?
> Care to send a patch?
Does this look better:
 http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-libvirt/libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=411ada3e726d0a6915b18d9a527ea918285cc50a;hp=0e21634e98704be799c2c4e1e74abf44cef8bdfc 

Cheers,
 -- Guido





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