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0005219unrealircdpublic2019-10-26 19:01
Reportersyzop Assigned Tosyzop  
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityN/A
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version4.2.2 
Fixed in Version5.0.0-beta1 
Summary0005219: ./unrealircd configtest
DescriptionIt would be nice if UnrealIRCd could do something similar to apache, like "./unrealircd configtest".
With that, we can also reject an "./unrealircd restart" if configtest fails (preventing a restart that is going to fail anyway).
Also document this and incorporate it in some kind of recommended upgrade procedure.

Coding-wise this would require several changes. In particular temp file cleaning and modules come to mind... calling TEST and POSTCONFTEST should be good. However, we should not call LOAD nor UNLOAD since modules may write some kind of state file which would be inappropriate at this point.
Additional InformationWhen upgrading I've always been doing "./unrealircd start" before I kill the old running ircd, but... the bind errors are a bit confusing to users, and... well... this way would be nicer :)
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syzop

2019-04-22 20:54

administrator   ~0020593

New target: 4.2.4

syzop

2019-10-26 19:01

administrator   ~0021049

commit fb8055c6ef02532b7238638ecf77c52e6203f8b1 (HEAD -> unreal50, origin/unreal50)
Author: Bram Matthys <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Oct 26 18:55:26 2019 +0200

    Add './unrealircd configtest' which tests the configuration but does
    not actually start the server. Any warnings and errors are printed
    only to the console.
    Suggested in https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=5219

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Also, we do call MOD_TEST, MOD_INIT *AND* MOD_LOAD. Otherwise some errors would go undetected, eg the SSL/TLS loading takes place after complete config load.
We set ircd.config_test to 1 in case of './unrealircd configtest' and do some interventions if this is the case.
In particular: 1) we do not copy module .so's to tmp/ but load them directly - since we won't ever rehash this is fine, 2) we don't delete temporary files, 3) we don't open or write to log files, only to stderr.

Also, unrelated, but I changed the wording from "Configuration loaded without any problems." to "Configuration loaded", since the former is kinda misleading if you have X warnings :D

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2019-03-03 11:50 syzop New Issue
2019-03-03 11:50 syzop Status new => confirmed
2019-03-03 11:51 syzop Additional Information Updated
2019-04-22 20:54 syzop Target Version 4.2.3-rc1 => 4.2.4
2019-04-22 20:54 syzop Note Added: 0020593
2019-10-26 19:01 syzop Assigned To => syzop
2019-10-26 19:01 syzop Status confirmed => resolved
2019-10-26 19:01 syzop Resolution open => fixed
2019-10-26 19:01 syzop Fixed in Version => 5.0.0-beta1
2019-10-26 19:01 syzop Note Added: 0021049
2019-10-26 19:01 syzop Target Version 4.2.4 =>