[systemd-devel] Fwd: Stopping a service at a specific time or after a specific duration

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> Am 20.04.2016 um 17:29 schrieb Jamie Kitson:
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>>>   For stopping after a duration you can use RuntimeMaxSec=, introduced in
>>>   v229.
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>> Thanks. The man page says:
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>>> If this is used and the service has been active for longer than the
>>> specified
>>> time it is terminated and put into a failure state
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> and i call that a design bug - why does it go into failure state?
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If you interpret RunTimeMax as "safety measure against run away
process" it sounds logical. In this case if service had to be killed
something went wrong indeed.