openssh 7.6 and 7.7 on Oracle Linux 7 (compiled from source) doesn't start correctly with systemd

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Fri Aug 24 09:50:55 AEST 2018


On Thu, 23 Aug 2018, kevin martin wrote:

> I'm not sure I agree with Peter in respect to his comment about "building a
> dependency to systemd".  The only time a "dependency" would be created is
> when the end-user would configure it to be there with a configure time flag
> of --with-systemd.  Just having the code available and dormant without that
> flag being provided builds in no dependency whatsoever and gives the
> end-user their option to choose.

If it's in the code that we maintain then it's a dependency. I'm don't
think any other definition makes sense.


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