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

[Kok, Auke-jan H]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
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> Op 10 apr. 2013, om 19:13 heeft Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
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>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> 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,
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>> After death, does `systemctl status dropbear.socket` show any error
>> messages in the status line?
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> No, only that it's dead, so systemd knows that it's has failed somehow

"dead" isn't necessarily the same as "failed"... and I wonder if you
can use ExecStartPost= here to kick it - it's valid for [Socket]
sections.

Auke