<refnamediv>
<refname>systemd.service</refname>
- <refpurpose>systemd service configuration files</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Service unit configuration</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<para>Additional options are listed in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
which define the execution environment the commands
- are executed in.</para>
+ are executed in, and in
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ which define the way the processes of the service are
+ terminated.</para>
<para>Unless <varname>DefaultDependencies=</varname>
is set to <option>false</option>, service units will
supervises. A number of options that may be used in
this section are shared with other unit types. These
options are documented in
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. The
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ and
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. The
options specific to the <literal>[Service]</literal>
section of service units are the following:</para>
configured in this option are run are
terminated according to the
<varname>KillMode=</varname> setting
- (see below). If this option is not
- specified the process is terminated
- right-away when service stop is
- requested. Specifier and environment
- variable substitution is supported
- (including
+ (see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>). If
+ this option is not specified the
+ process is terminated right-away when
+ service stop is requested. Specifier
+ and environment variable substitution
+ is supported (including
<literal>$MAINPID</literal>, see
above).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
another delay of this time with
SIGKILL. (See
<varname>KillMode=</varname>
- below.) Takes a unit-less value in seconds, or a
+ in <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>) Takes a unit-less value in seconds, or a
time span value such as "5min
20s". Pass 0 to disable the timeout
logic. Defaults to
<option>on-failure</option> it will be
restarted only when it exited with an
exit code not equalling 0, when
- terminated by a signal, when an
- operation times out or when the
+ terminated by a signal (including on
+ core dump), when an operation (such as
+ service reload) times out or when the
configured watchdog timeout is
triggered. If set to
<option>on-abort</option> it will be
restarted only if it exits due to
- reception of an uncaught signal. If
- set to <option>always</option> the
- service will be restarted regardless
- whether it exited cleanly or not,
- got terminated abnormally by a
- signal or hit a timeout.</para></listitem>
+ reception of an uncaught signal
+ (including on core dump). If set to
+ <option>always</option> the service
+ will be restarted regardless whether
+ it exited cleanly or not, got
+ terminated abnormally by a signal or
+ hit a timeout.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
false.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>KillMode=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Specifies how
- processes of this service shall be
- killed. One of
- <option>control-group</option>,
- <option>process</option>,
- <option>none</option>.</para>
-
- <para>If set to
- <option>control-group</option> all
- remaining processes in the control
- group of this service will be
- terminated on service stop, after the
- stop command (as configured with
- <varname>ExecStop=</varname>) is
- executed. If set to
- <option>process</option> only the main
- process itself is killed. If set to
- <option>none</option> no process is
- killed. In this case only the stop
- command will be executed on service
- stop, but no process be killed
- otherwise. Processes remaining alive
- after stop are left in their control
- group and the control group continues
- to exist after stop unless it is
- empty. Defaults to
- <option>control-group</option>.</para>
-
- <para>Processes will first be
- terminated via SIGTERM (unless the
- signal to send is changed via
- <varname>KillSignal=</varname>). If
- then after a delay (configured via the
- <varname>TimeoutSec=</varname> option)
- processes still remain, the
- termination request is repeated with
- the SIGKILL signal (unless this is
- disabled via the
- <varname>SendSIGKILL=</varname>
- option). See
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- for more
- information.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>KillSignal=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Specifies which signal
- to use when killing a
- service. Defaults to SIGTERM.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>SendSIGKILL=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Specifies whether to
- send SIGKILL to remaining processes
- after a timeout, if the normal
- shutdown procedure left processes of
- the service around. Takes a boolean
- value. Defaults to "yes".
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>NonBlocking=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Set O_NONBLOCK flag
are allowed (defaults to 5). These
configuration options are particularly
useful in conjunction with
- <varname>Restart=</varname>.</para></listitem>
+ <varname>Restart=</varname>, however
+ apply to all kinds of starts
+ (including manual), not just those
+ triggered by the
+ <varname>Restart=</varname> logic.
+ Note that units which are configured
+ for <varname>Restart=</varname> and
+ which reach the start limit are not
+ attempted to be restarted anymore,
+ however they may still be restarted
+ manually at a later point from which
+ point on the restart logic is again
+ activated. Note that
+ <command>systemctl
+ reset-failed</command> will cause the
+ restart rate counter for a service to
+ be flushed, which is useful if the
+ administrator wants to manually start
+ a service and the start limit
+ interferes with
+ that.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
+
+ <para>Check
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ and
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ for more settings.</para>
+
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>