[systemd-devel] F16_64: attempt at OpenVPN server service file

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Sun Nov 27 11:11:38 PST 2011


On 11/26/2011 11:39 PM, Michael D. Berger wrote:
>> than i type "systemctl stop whatever.service"
>>
>> Restart is triggered if they process goes away and in the
>> case of "Always" this happens even if the process gives back
>> a successfull 0 like after "killall processname"
>>
> So I gather that Restart is triggered only if the process
> goes away ***for reasons other than a stop having been issued***.
> I suggest that the man pages be modified to say that.
Maybe like this?

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] man: clarify that Restart= is only for the unexpected cases

---
 man/systemd.service.xml |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index 7b6f12d..7c2ed7e 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -462,8 +462,9 @@
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>Restart=</varname></term>
                                 <listitem><para>Configures whether the
-                                main service process shall be
-                                restarted when it exits. Takes one of
+                                service shall be restarted if the main
+                                process exits for reasons other than
+                                the service being stopped. Takes one of
                                 <option>no</option>,
                                 <option>on-success</option>,
                                 <option>on-failure</option>,
-- 
1.7.8.rc3.348.g8fea1



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