Description:

ddclient fails to start when using the cloudflare module. It says that it is missing the JSON::Any Perl module. This leads me to believe that there should be a dependency (or optional dependency) on perl-json. However, when I tried installing perl-json, it didn't help.

I first noticed this today, so I'm not sure when it broke.

Additional info:

This happens for this version of the package.

ddclient-3.8.3-1

Here's a log from journalctl.

> journalctl -xe | grep ddclient

-- Subject: Unit ddclient.service has begun start-up
-- Unit ddclient.service has begun starting up.
Nov 16 15:56:02 zeromus ddclient[16163]: FATAL: Error loading the Perl module JSON::Any needed for cloudflare update.
Nov 16 15:56:02 zeromus ddclient[16168]: FATAL: Error loading the Perl module JSON::Any needed for cloudflare update.
Nov 16 15:56:02 zeromus systemd[1]: ddclient.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
-- Subject: Unit ddclient.service has failed
-- Unit ddclient.service has failed.
Nov 16 15:56:02 zeromus systemd[1]: ddclient.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 16 15:56:02 zeromus systemd[1]: ddclient.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Here's a redacted configuration:

> cat /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf | grep -ve "^$\|^#"
daemon=300
syslog=yes
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
ssl=yes
use=web, web=http://ipv4.wtfismyip.com/text
protocol=cloudflare, \
zone=<site>, \
server=www.cloudflare.com, \
login=<username>, \
password=<api_key> \
<record>

With variable description:

<site>: The main site you want to update (e.g. mysite.com)
<username>: The username you log in with (e.g. test@example.com)
<record>: The record you want to update (e.g. home.mysite.com)
<api_key>: Hex string API key from https://www.cloudflare.com/a/account/my-account

Steps to reproduce:

1. Use configuration above
2. Run systemctl start ddclient.service