having to upgrade varnish isn't helping with the anger issues.

I AM NOW FULL OF RAGE.

AM NOW DEBUGGING SYSTEMD, AND HAVING TO LEARN THE INTERNALS.

ALL OF THE RAGE

not kidding, we fixed it with:

EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/varnish
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "/bin/echo ${DAEMON_OPTS} && /usr/sbin/varnishd ${DAEMON_OPTS}"

Because otherwise systemd would randomly eat parts of ${DAEMON_OPTS}. oh yes, we *also* had to make DAEMON_OPTS a single line, because *something* didn't like '\' continuation chars.

systemd is the worst software I've ever had to use, and I've used AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and 16-bit Windows Payroll software.

@phessler being worse than HP-UX is a truly Herculean task: I have nightmares made of setting up HP workstations in the 1990s…

It truly sounds like systemd is not only reinventing the wheel but building a whole car in the wheel including all previous mistakes.

@cynicalsecurity @phessler We used to say (way before the systemd thing) that the SUSE people had been smoking too much HP-UX... Some of their early management tools had that vibe.