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diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index 233807d2b..f43201dc7 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
systemd.service
- systemd service configuration files
+ Service unit configuration
@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@
Additional options are listed in
systemd.exec5,
which define the execution environment the commands
- are executed in.
+ are executed in, and in
+ systemd.kill5
+ which define the way the processes of the service are
+ terminated.
Unless DefaultDependencies=
is set to , service units will
@@ -95,7 +98,12 @@
.service suffix removed) and
dynamically creates a service unit from that
script. This is useful for compatibility with
- SysV.
+ SysV. Note that this compatibility is quite
+ comprehensive but not 100%. For details about the
+ incomptibilities see the Incompatibilities
+ with SysV document.
+
@@ -107,7 +115,9 @@
supervises. A number of options that may be used in
this section are shared with other unit types. These
options are documented in
- systemd.exec5. The
+ systemd.exec5
+ and
+ systemd.kill5. The
options specific to the [Service]
section of service units are the following:
@@ -412,12 +422,13 @@
configured in this option are run are
terminated according to the
KillMode= 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
+ systemd.kill5). 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
$MAINPID, see
above).
@@ -466,7 +477,7 @@
another delay of this time with
SIGKILL. (See
KillMode=
- below.) Takes a unit-less value in seconds, or a
+ in systemd.kill5) 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
@@ -482,26 +493,29 @@
is activated when the start-up is
completed. The service must call
sd_notify3
- regularly with "WATCHDOG=1". If the
- time between two such calls is larger
- than the configured time then the
- service is placed in a failure
- state. By setting
- Restart=
- to or
+ regularly with "WATCHDOG=1" (i.e. the
+ "keep-alive ping"). If the time
+ between two such calls is larger than
+ the configured time then the service
+ is placed in a failure state. By
+ setting Restart= to
+ or
the service
will be automatically restarted. The
time configured here will be passed to
the executed service process in the
WATCHDOG_USEC=
- environment variable. If
+ environment variable. This allows
+ daemons to automatically enable the
+ keep-alive pinging logic if watchdog
+ support is enabled for the service. If
this option is used
NotifyAccess= (see
below) should be set to open access to
the notification socket provided by
systemd. If
- NotifyAccess= is not
- set, it will be implicitly set to
+ NotifyAccess= is
+ not set, it will be implicitly set to
. Defaults to 0,
which disables this
feature.
@@ -527,18 +541,20 @@
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
it will be
restarted only if it exits due to
- reception of an uncaught signal. If
- set to the
- service will be restarted regardless
- whether it exited cleanly or not,
- got terminated abnormally by a
- signal or hit a timeout.
+ reception of an uncaught signal
+ (including on core dump). If set to
+ the service
+ will be restarted regardless whether
+ it exited cleanly or not, got
+ terminated abnormally by a signal or
+ hit a timeout.
@@ -588,72 +604,6 @@
false.
-
- KillMode=
- Specifies how
- processes of this service shall be
- killed. One of
- ,
- ,
- .
-
- If set to
- all
- remaining processes in the control
- group of this service will be
- terminated on service stop, after the
- stop command (as configured with
- ExecStop=) is
- executed. If set to
- only the main
- process itself is killed. If set to
- 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
- .
-
- Processes will first be
- terminated via SIGTERM (unless the
- signal to send is changed via
- KillSignal=). If
- then after a delay (configured via the
- TimeoutSec= option)
- processes still remain, the
- termination request is repeated with
- the SIGKILL signal (unless this is
- disabled via the
- SendSIGKILL=
- option). See
- kill2
- for more
- information.
-
-
-
- KillSignal=
- Specifies which signal
- to use when killing a
- service. Defaults to SIGTERM.
-
-
-
-
- SendSIGKILL=
- 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".
-
-
-
NonBlocking=Set O_NONBLOCK flag
@@ -748,7 +698,27 @@
are allowed (defaults to 5). These
configuration options are particularly
useful in conjunction with
- Restart=.
+ Restart=, however
+ apply to all kinds of starts
+ (including manual), not just those
+ triggered by the
+ Restart= logic.
+ Note that units which are configured
+ for Restart= 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
+ systemctl
+ reset-failed 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.
@@ -788,6 +758,13 @@
+
+ Check
+ systemd.exec5
+ and
+ systemd.kill5
+ for more settings.
+
@@ -858,7 +835,8 @@
systemd1,
systemctl8,
systemd.unit5,
- systemd.exec5
+ systemd.exec5,
+ systemd.kill5