Note: This bug is displayed in read-only format because the product is no longer active in Red Hat Bugzilla.

RHEL Engineering is moving the tracking of its product development work on RHEL 6 through RHEL 9 to Red Hat Jira (issues.redhat.com). If you're a Red Hat customer, please continue to file support cases via the Red Hat customer portal. If you're not, please head to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira and file new tickets here. Individual Bugzilla bugs in the statuses "NEW", "ASSIGNED", and "POST" are being migrated throughout September 2023. Bugs of Red Hat partners with an assigned Engineering Partner Manager (EPM) are migrated in late September as per pre-agreed dates. Bugs against components "kernel", "kernel-rt", and "kpatch" are only migrated if still in "NEW" or "ASSIGNED". If you cannot log in to RH Jira, please consult article #7032570. That failing, please send an e-mail to the RH Jira admins at rh-issues@redhat.com to troubleshoot your issue as a user management inquiry. The email creates a ServiceNow ticket with Red Hat. Individual Bugzilla bugs that are migrated will be moved to status "CLOSED", resolution "MIGRATED", and set with "MigratedToJIRA" in "Keywords". The link to the successor Jira issue will be found under "Links", have a little "two-footprint" icon next to it, and direct you to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira (issue links are of type "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-XXXX", where "X" is a digit). This same link will be available in a blue banner at the top of the page informing you that that bug has been migrated.

Description of problem:
Usage of "include" statements in keepalived.conf either does not work or is silently ignored / unsupported.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
keepalived-1.2.13-7.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add include statement in keepalived.conf
2. keepalived starts and does not report errors
3.

Actual results:
information in the include file is ignored

Expected results:
A) information in include file is included or
B) a warning / error that "include" is unknown

Additional info:
I tested with keepalived-1.2.22-1.el7.x86_64.rpm from r2d2.marmotte.net and the include statement works properly.  Sadly, I am having other issues with that version, so I can't just start using it :(

thank you!

Uffties, I spoke too soon :(, so the silent failure here is when the conf path is double quoted.

include "/etc/keepalived/bah.conf"  <-- silently fails

include /etc/keepalived/bah.conf  <-- works as expected.

Up to you folks if you think this is a bug or not :/

After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.