Re: How can I simply check that a service has been restarted ?

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:43 PM Luca Boccassi <bluca@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2020-11-10 at 11:50 +0100, Francis Moreau wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:30 AM Lennart Poettering
> > <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Di, 10.11.20 10:28, Francis Moreau (francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > After restarting a service with "systemctl try-restart ..." I want to
> > > > verify that the service has been restarted.
> > > >
> > > > How can I reliably do this without using the dbus API ?
> > >
> > > D-Bus is how systemd exposes its state. If you don't want to use that,
> > > you won't get the state information.
> > >
> >
> > dbus is overkill for my little bash script.
>
> It's pretty simple, and a one-liner, to get the value of a property
> from a bash script with busctl. Eg:
>
> $ busctl get-property org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1/unit/gdm_2eservice org.freedesktop.systemd1.Service Restart
> s "always"
>

Thank you but I'm not interested in the Restart property of a service,
I want to know if a service as been restarted.

-- 
Francis
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