[ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel: Fix literal dollar sign usage in systemd service files

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:18:26AM +0200, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
> On 16/04/18 17:15, Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> >Currently (at least on RHEL 7.5) openvswitch fails to start (with DPDK
> >enabled) as non-root, since chown fails and "/dev/hugepages" group is not
> >changed.
> >
> >Commit tested on Fedora 28 and RHEL 7.5, both as root as non-root user.
> >
> > From man 5 systemd.service:
> >
> >   To pass a literal dollar sign, use "$$". Variables whose value is not known
> >   at expansion time are treated as empty strings. Note that the first argument
> >   (i.e. the program to execute) may not be a variable.
> >
> >CC: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> >Fixes: 4299145c1095 ("rhel: don't drop capabilities when running as root")
> >Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli at redhat.com>
> <SNIP>
> 
> Changes look good to me!
> 
> Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro at redhat.com>

Thanks Timothy, Aaron, and Eelco.  I applied this to master and
branch-2.9.