[systemd-devel] Failed at step RUNTIME_DIRECTORY spawning /usr/bin/true: File exists

[Ivan Shapovalov]

On 2015-08-06 at 15:01 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2015-08-06 14:43 GMT+02:00 Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>:
> > well, but "Type=simple" is default and recommended everywhere 
> > because there
> > is no main-pid to guess and the with "Restart=always" monitored is 
> > in fact
> > "ExecStart"
> 
> 
> Actually, Type=simple has its own share of problems:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778913

That's a direct consequence of Type=simple semantics. From systemd's
standpoint, a daemon which crashes 10ms after start-up due to bad
config is indistinguishable from a daemon which crashes 10hrs after
starting due to an internal error.

To make things more robust, the daemon should either *properly*
implement Type=forking (i. e. fork only after initial start-up)
or it should implement Type=notify.

-- 
Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx /
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