[systemd-devel] Restart and RestartSec in packaged .service files

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 01.09.11 13:07, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:

> > and at the same time take other action like potentially trigger abrt to send bug report or 
> > revert changes and restart the daemon etc. as opposed to pipe a simple mail notification 
> > to root and systemd provides exactly that to admins via OnFailure= see man systemd.unit
> > for details...
> 
> http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.unit.html does not contain the word "mail"
> "RestartNotifyMail=root" would be what is needed in SOHO environments!
> 
> well but a) there are missing options and b) OnFailure is simply a joke
> if i say "Restart=always" then OnFailure is NOT triggered

if this is the case, then this should be considered a bug I
guess. Please file it.

> if i say "Restart=always" i want a mail if this happens
> not a own unit-file

write a unit file that sends a mail, something like this: 

send-mail-on-failure at .service:
<snip>
[Unit]
Description=Send mail on failure of %I

[Service]
ExecStart=/path/to/my/script.sh %I
</snip>

/path/to/my/script.sh:
<snip>
#!/bin/sh

(
echo "$1 crashed, do something, sir!"
echo "here's the systemctl status output:"
systemctl status "$1"
) | mail lennart -s "OMG! PONIES!"
</snip>

And then add OnFailure=send-mail-on-failure@%P to your units where you
want a mail to be sent.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.