Commit c111f9f7 authored by Toke Høiland-Jørgensen's avatar Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Committed by Juliusz Chroboczek

Add configuration flag to skip initial kernel setup.

This adds a configuration flag to skip kernel (sysctl) setup on daemon
startup. This can be useful if running in, e.g., a container environment
where setting sysctls are not allowed.
Signed-off-by: default avatarToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
parent 67984ffa
......@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ int default_wired_hello_interval = -1;
int resend_delay = -1;
int random_id = 0;
int do_daemonise = 0;
int skip_kernel_setup = 0;
const char *logfile = NULL,
*pidfile = "/var/run/babeld.pid",
*state_file = "/var/lib/babel-state";
......
......@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ extern time_t reboot_time;
extern int default_wireless_hello_interval, default_wired_hello_interval;
extern int resend_delay;
extern int random_id;
extern int skip_kernel_setup;
extern int do_daemonise;
extern const char *logfile, *pidfile, *state_file;
extern int link_detect;
......
......@@ -253,6 +253,11 @@ This specifies whether to daemonize at startup, and is equivalent to
the command-line option
.BR \-D .
.TP
.BR skip-kernel-setup " {" true | false }
If this flag is set, no kernel (sysctl) setup is performed on startup. This can
be useful when running in environments where system permissions prevent setting
kernel parameters, for instance inside a Linux container.
.TP
.BI state-file " filename"
This specifies the name of the file used for preserving long-term
information between invocations of the
......
......@@ -691,6 +691,7 @@ parse_option(int c, gnc_t gnc, void *closure, char *token)
strcmp(token, "link-detect") == 0 ||
strcmp(token, "random-id") == 0 ||
strcmp(token, "daemonise") == 0 ||
strcmp(token, "skip-kernel-setup") == 0 ||
strcmp(token, "ipv6-subtrees") == 0 ||
strcmp(token, "reflect-kernel-metric") == 0) {
int b;
......@@ -706,6 +707,8 @@ parse_option(int c, gnc_t gnc, void *closure, char *token)
random_id = b;
else if(strcmp(token, "daemonise") == 0)
do_daemonise = b;
else if(strcmp(token, "skip-kernel-setup") == 0)
skip_kernel_setup = b;
else if(strcmp(token, "ipv6-subtrees") == 0)
has_ipv6_subtrees = b;
else if(strcmp(token, "reflect-kernel-metric") == 0)
......
......@@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ kernel_setup(int setup)
}
nl_setup = 1;
if(skip_kernel_setup) return 1;
for(i=0; i<NUM_SYSCTLS; i++) {
s = &sysctl_settings[i];
......@@ -541,6 +542,8 @@ kernel_setup(int setup)
nl_command.sock = -1;
nl_setup = 0;
if(skip_kernel_setup) return 1;
for(i=0; i<NUM_SYSCTLS; i++) {
s = &sysctl_settings[i];
if(s->was && s->was != s->want) {
......
......@@ -214,6 +214,8 @@ kernel_setup(int setup)
int mib[4];
size_t datasize;
if(skip_kernel_setup) return 1;
mib[0] = CTL_NET;
mib[1] = AF_INET6;
seq = time(NULL);
......
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