failed systemctl services?

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 07:57:57AM -0700, stan wrote:
> > Is there a process that automatically will try to restart failed
> > systemctl services, or would it be worth creating something to do so?
> > Perhaps in cron.hourly? 
> I'm no expert, but my understanding is that there is not.

Actually, *systemd* is that process. That's one of its huge features
missing in the old init system. Take a look at the man page for
systemd.service — search for "Restart=".

However, we don't configure most things that way out of the box... yet.
There was discussion about this three years ago, reopened a year ago...

https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/191

and the current guidelines 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd?rd=Packaging:Guidelines:Systemd#Automatic_restarting

but as far as I know there hasn't been a big effort to bring existing
services in line. (Seems like a worthwhile project if anyone's
interested.)

> 
> > Might be these are harmless, but not sure.
> 
> It doesn't seem harmless that services that the user expects to be
> started, and are configured properly, fail.
> 
> It would be good if you opened a bugzilla against systemd for an RFE
> requesting such a utility.
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