Paul Wouters (pwouters@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Tom Lane wrote: > > >Subject: Re: service restart question > > >(1) systemd is not able to distinguish a crash that should be restarted > > >(2) Right now it appears that there is a bug in systemd that causes > >it to ignore its respawn limits > > >(3) Even if StartLimitInterval/StartLimitBurst were operating properly, > >there are scenarios where mysqld will fail to start up, but be slow > >enough about it (like a couple of seconds) that systemd's respawn > >suppression logic would not get triggered, so it'd keep on restarting > > >In the meantime I'm seriously considering reverting to mysqld_safe. > > Good to know, because I was thinking about the same thing for openswan's > wrapper script. It's a little more complicated there because it supports > an option plutorestartoncrash=yes|no. It's really nice for dev's to not > get a chain reaction of cores, but in production we really want it to > always restart. I was hoping systemd would support that properly for all > daemons now via generic options. I think it's a safe option that systemd would *like* to support this without external helpers where possible. For your case, Restart=on-abort seems like what you want? Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel