Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> writes: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 09:09:38AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >>Thanks for passing that along: I'm using it with Exim and haven't >>noticed this particular problem, but it's useful to know it could >>happen. > > Ah, because I have User=nobody, and so the systemd sub-process can't > reap the privileged exim4 sub-process. This is irrelevant. Only processes spawned from "--user" units are safe. Processes spawned from system units are killed regardless of 'User=" stanza. (I observed this on units with "User=news") KJ
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