The ExecStartPre line was introduced a long time ago in the systemd unit
file, at the time of systemd wrapper. With the haproxy master worker
mode, this line is now useless, since starting haproxy itself will check
the configuration.
However this does not concern the check in the ExecReload which is still
needed to return a reload status to HAProxy.
It probably shouldn't be backported.
This line should disappear in a future version but we should still fix
ExecStartPre with -Ws like we've done in 9def142.
It's a complementary fix that must be backported with 9def142
("BUG/MINOR: systemd: must check the configuration using -Ws").
When doing a reload with a configuration which requires the
master-worker mode, the configuration check will fail because the check
is not done with -W/-Ws.
Example:
wla@kikyo:~/haproxy$ ./haproxy -Ws -c -f haproxy.cfg
Configuration file is valid
wla@kikyo:~/haproxy$ ./haproxy -c -f haproxy.cfg
[NOTICE] (13153) : haproxy version is 2.5-dev2-4567b3-16
[NOTICE] (13153) : path to executable is ./haproxy
[ALERT] (13153) : config : Can't use a 'program' section without master worker mode.
[ALERT] (13153) : config : Fatal errors found in configuration.
This patch fixes the issue by adding -Ws on the check command line.
Must be backported in all stable branches. (The file was previously in
contrib/systemd/haproxy.service.in).
The following components were moved to admin/ because they're generally
used in field by admins:
iprange/ netsnmp-perl/ selinux/ systemd/ wireshark-dissectors/
syntax-highlight/ release-estimator/
William Lallemand
Willy Tarreau