service restart question

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 25.06.12 15:40, Tom Lane (tgl at redhat.com) wrote:

> (1) systemd is not able to distinguish a crash that should be restarted
> from, say, failure due to misconfiguration in /etc/my.cnf.  (It's not
> clear whether restart settings other than "always" would help here,
> but in general it seems obvious that there are likely to be service-
> specific reasons for restarting after some failures and not others.)

Hmm, it can actually do that. For example if you set Restart=on-abort
we'll restart mysql only if it crashes abnormally, via a signal -- but
it wouldn't be if mysql exits with exit(x) regardless what that x is.

Also, if you use Restart=always and a service terminates during its
initialization phase then we don't try restarts either (well, at least
in theory, there might be a bug in this, too). We'd only restart it if
it terminates during the normal runtime.

Anyway, I will spend some time today to make sure this all works
properly, as intended.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.