[systemd-devel] How can I simply check that a service has been restarted ?

[Francis Moreau]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:47 PM Arian Van Putten <arian at wire.com> wrote:
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> I think what you might want is `Type=exec` instead of `Type=simple` in your unit file.  It was recently added to systemd.
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> then `systemctl restart` will return a failure when the main process fails to start. I hope that helps.

Thank you however I don't control the type of the restarted units, it
can be anything,

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> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:50 AM Francis Moreau <francis.moro at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:30 AM Lennart Poettering
>> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
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>> > On Di, 10.11.20 10:28, Francis Moreau (francis.moro at gmail.com) wrote:
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>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > After restarting a service with "systemctl try-restart ..." I want to
>> > > verify that the service has been restarted.
>> > >
>> > > How can I reliably do this without using the dbus API ?
>> >
>> > D-Bus is how systemd exposes its state. If you don't want to use that,
>> > you won't get the state information.
>> >
>>
>> dbus is overkill for my little bash script.
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>> Francis
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Francis