[systemd-devel] ExecStop required in service file?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 14.11.11 10:51, Michael D. Berger (m.d.berger at ieee.org) wrote:

> On my F16_64, mySrvDaemon is a tcp/ip server involving posix
> threads, written in C++.  mySrvDaemon.service:
> 
>  [Unit]
>  Description=Server Service
>  After=syslog.target network.target
> 
>  [Service]
>  PIDFile=/var/lock/subsys/mySrvDaemon
>  Type=simple
>  ControlGroup=cpu:/
>  ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mySrvDaemon --daemon
>  ExecStop=/bin/kill -TERM $MAINPID

Note that systemd sends TERM to all processes of a service anyway. An
ExecStop= line like this is hence fully redundant.

Lennart

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