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<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Restart=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Configures whether the service shall be
- restarted when the service process exits, is killed, or a
- timeout is reached. The service process may be the main
- service process, but it may also be one of the processes
- specified with <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname>,
- <varname>ExecStartPost=</varname>,
- <varname>ExecStop=</varname>,
- <varname>ExecStopPost=</varname>, or
- <varname>ExecReload=</varname>. When the death of the process
- is a result of systemd operation (e.g. service stop or
- restart), the service will not be restarted. Timeouts include
- missing the watchdog "keep-alive ping" deadline and a service
- start, reload, and stop operation timeouts.</para>
-
- <para>Takes one of
- <option>no</option>,
- <option>on-success</option>,
- <option>on-failure</option>,
- <option>on-abnormal</option>,
- <option>on-watchdog</option>,
- <option>on-abort</option>, or
- <option>always</option>.
- If set to <option>no</option> (the default), the service will
- not be restarted. If set to <option>on-success</option>, it
- will be restarted only when the service process exits cleanly.
+ <listitem><para>Configures whether the service shall be restarted when the service process exits,
+ is killed, or a timeout is reached. The service process may be the main service process, but it may
+ also be one of the processes specified with <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname>,
+ <varname>ExecStartPost=</varname>, <varname>ExecStop=</varname>, <varname>ExecStopPost=</varname>,
+ or <varname>ExecReload=</varname>. When the death of the process is a result of systemd operation
+ (e.g. service stop or restart), the service will not be restarted. Timeouts include missing the watchdog
+ "keep-alive ping" deadline and a service start, reload, and stop operation timeouts.</para>
+
+ <para>Takes one of <option>no</option>, <option>on-success</option>, <option>on-failure</option>,
+ <option>on-abnormal</option>, <option>on-watchdog</option>, <option>on-abort</option>, or
+ <option>always</option>. If set to <option>no</option> (the default), the service will not be restarted.
+ If set to <option>on-success</option>, it will be restarted only when the service process exits cleanly.
In this context, a clean exit means any of the following:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><simpara>exit code of 0;</simpara></listitem>
- <listitem><simpara>for types other than
- <varname>Type=oneshot</varname>, one of the signals
- <constant>SIGHUP</constant>,
- <constant>SIGINT</constant>,
- <constant>SIGTERM</constant>, or
- <constant>SIGPIPE</constant>;</simpara></listitem>
+ <listitem><simpara>for types other than <varname>Type=oneshot</varname>, one of the signals
+ <constant>SIGHUP</constant>, <constant>SIGINT</constant>,
+ <constant>SIGTERM</constant>, or <constant>SIGPIPE</constant>;
+ </simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>exit statuses and signals specified in
<varname>SuccessExitStatus=</varname>.</simpara></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- If set to
- <option>on-failure</option>, the service will be restarted
- when the process exits with a non-zero exit code, is
- terminated by a signal (including on core dump, but excluding
- the aforementioned four signals), when an operation (such as
- service reload) times out, and when the configured watchdog
- timeout is triggered. If set to <option>on-abnormal</option>,
- the service will be restarted when the process is terminated
- by a signal (including on core dump, excluding the
- aforementioned four signals), when an operation times out, or
- when the watchdog timeout is triggered. If set to
- <option>on-abort</option>, the service will be restarted only
- if the service process exits due to an uncaught signal not
- specified as a clean exit status. If set to
- <option>on-watchdog</option>, the service will be restarted
- only if the watchdog timeout for the service expires. If set
- to <option>always</option>, the service will be restarted
- regardless of whether it exited cleanly or not, got terminated
- abnormally by a signal, or hit a timeout.</para>
+ If set to <option>on-failure</option>, the service will be restarted when the process exits with
+ a non-zero exit code, is terminated by a signal (including on core dump, but excluding the aforementioned
+ four signals), when an operation (such as service reload) times out, and when the configured watchdog
+ timeout is triggered. If set to <option>on-abnormal</option>, the service will be restarted when
+ the process is terminated by a signal (including on core dump, excluding the aforementioned four signals),
+ when an operation times out, or when the watchdog timeout is triggered. If set to <option>on-abort</option>,
+ the service will be restarted only if the service process exits due to an uncaught signal not specified
+ as a clean exit status. If set to <option>on-watchdog</option>, the service will be restarted
+ only if the watchdog timeout for the service expires. If set to <option>always</option>, the service
+ will be restarted regardless of whether it exited cleanly or not, got terminated abnormally by
+ a signal, or hit a timeout. Note that <varname>Type=oneshot</varname> services will never be restarted
+ on a clean exit status, i.e. <option>always</option> and <option>on-success</option> are rejected
+ for them.</para>
<table>
<title>Exit causes and the effect of the <varname>Restart=</varname> settings</title>