Shibboleth SP on RHEL7- issues between shibd <-> systemd?

[Mark Cairney]

Hi,

I've installed and set up Shibboleth SP (shibboleth-2.5.4-3.2.x86_64) on
a new RHEL 7.1 box which will be replacing an existing RHEL6 server.

The config is a drop-in replacement from the existing Shib SP however
when I try and start it I get the following:


# /etc/init.d/shibd start
Starting shibd (via systemctl):  Job for shibd.service failed. See
'systemctl status shibd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
                                                           [FAILED]

However the process starts (this PID matches the one in
/var/run/shibboleth/shibd.pid):
# ps -ef |grep shibd
shibd    63924     1 69 14:08 ?        00:00:40 /usr/sbin/shibd -p
/var/run/shibboleth/shibd.pid -f -w 30
root     63933  5450  0 14:08 pts/3    00:00:00 grep --color=auto shibd

If I run the status command I see:

# /etc/init.d/shibd status
shibd.service - LSB: Shibboleth 2 Service Provider Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/shibd)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2015-06-01 14:08:31 BST;
1min 25s ago
  Process: 63914 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/shibd start (code=exited,
status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 6954 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

(N.B. the different PID to that given by ps)


Similarly if I stop the service I see:

# /etc/init.d/shibd stop
Stopping shibd (via systemctl):                            [  OK  ]

However shibd is still running.

Is this expected behaviour on Redhat/SL/Centos 7 or a bug? For what it's
worth my config did generate a couple of minor warnings re: cookieProps
and HandlerSSL but these have been tweaked and the behaviour persists.


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