On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:54:43PM +0000, James Pearson wrote:
> However, I notice that this option is only used in a few OS provided
> service unit files - and was wondering about the wisdom of adding this
> capability to other daemons/services? (e.g. chronyd or ntpd, crond,
> rpcbind, etc, etc) - not that these daemons are likely to crash and need
> restarting that often ...
I think it's a good idea. We just haven't had a push (either at Red Hat
internally or Fedora upstream) to go through and enable this everywhere
it makes sense. The guidelines do recommend it:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Automatic_restarting
> Are there any potential pit-falls in using Restart with OS provided
> daemons/services?
See the caveat on Restart=on-abnormal in the doc above.
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