[systemd-devel] Socket is dying, how to automatically restart it?

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 04/10/2013 05:03 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a bit of a heisenbug where dropbear.socket will just die and needs a systemctl restart dropbear.socket. I can't tell why it's dying, just that it does within 3 days of uptime. After restarting it it seems to be rock solid again for at least some weeks.
>
> The real way to fix this is to find out why it dies, but till someone figures that out I'm looking to a way to automatically restart the socket when it fails, kinda like Restart=Always for services. Is such a thing possible? This is with 195 and 196, haven't tried 201 yet.
>

When tackling things like this it's properly better to use timer unit 
that checks it periodically if the service responds ( some times they 
are up but in weird state ) and restarts it if it fails

JBG