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   Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
 
   systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
   Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
 
   systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.
 
   systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
   (at your option) any later version.
 
   systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
-  General Public License for more details.
+  Lesser General Public License for more details.
 
 
-  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
   along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 -->
 
   along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 -->
 
                                 <option>forking</option>,
                                 <option>oneshot</option>,
                                 <option>dbus</option>,
                                 <option>forking</option>,
                                 <option>oneshot</option>,
                                 <option>dbus</option>,
-                                <option>notify</option>.</para>
+                                <option>notify</option> or
+                                <option>idle</option>.</para>
 
                                 <para>If set to
                                 <option>simple</option> (the default
 
                                 <para>If set to
                                 <option>simple</option> (the default
-                                value) it is expected that the process
-                                configured with
+                                value if <varname>BusName=</varname>
+                                is not specified) it is expected that
+                                the process configured with
                                 <varname>ExecStart=</varname> is the
                                 main process of the service. In this
                                 mode, if the process offers
                                 <varname>ExecStart=</varname> is the
                                 main process of the service. In this
                                 mode, if the process offers
                                 option configured implicitly gain
                                 dependencies on the
                                 <filename>dbus.socket</filename>
                                 option configured implicitly gain
                                 dependencies on the
                                 <filename>dbus.socket</filename>
-                                unit.</para>
+                                unit. This type is the default if
+                                <varname>BusName=</varname> is
+                                specified.</para>
 
                                 <para>Behaviour of
                                 <option>notify</option> is similar to
 
                                 <para>Behaviour of
                                 <option>notify</option> is similar to
                                 below) should be set to open access to
                                 the notification socket provided by
                                 systemd. If
                                 below) should be set to open access to
                                 the notification socket provided by
                                 systemd. If
-                                <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> is not
-                                set, it will implicitly be set to
+                                <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> is
+                                not set, it will be implicitly set to
                                 <option>main</option>.</para>
                                 <option>main</option>.</para>
+
+                                <para>Behaviour of
+                                <option>idle</option> is very similar
+                                to <option>simple</option>, however
+                                actual execution of a the service
+                                binary is delayed until all jobs are
+                                dispatched. This may be used to avoid
+                                interleaving of output of shell
+                                services with the status output on the
+                                console.</para>
                                 </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                 </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                 time configured here will be passed to
                                 the executed service process in the
                                 <varname>WATCHDOG_USEC=</varname>
                                 time configured here will be passed to
                                 the executed service process in the
                                 <varname>WATCHDOG_USEC=</varname>
-                                environment variable. Defaults to 0s,
+                                environment variable. If
+                                this option is used
+                                <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> (see
+                                below) should be set to open access to
+                                the notification socket provided by
+                                systemd. If
+                                <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> is not
+                                set, it will be implicitly set to
+                                <option>main</option>. Defaults to 0,
                                 which disables this
                                 feature.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                                 which disables this
                                 feature.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                                 0. If set to
                                 <option>on-failure</option> it will be
                                 restarted only when it exited with an
                                 0. If set to
                                 <option>on-failure</option> it will be
                                 restarted only when it exited with an
-                                exit code not equalling 0, or when
-                                terminated by a signal. If set to
+                                exit code not equalling 0, when
+                                terminated by a signal, when an
+                                operation 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
                                 <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, or
+                                whether it exited cleanly or not,
                                 got terminated abnormally by a
                                 got terminated abnormally by a
-                                signal.</para></listitem>
+                                signal or hit a timeout.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 accepted. If <option>all</option> all
                                 services updates from all members of
                                 the service's control group are
                                 accepted. If <option>all</option> all
                                 services updates from all members of
                                 the service's control group are
-                                accepted. This option must be set to
+                                accepted. This option should be set to
                                 open access to the notification socket
                                 when using
                                 open access to the notification socket
                                 when using
-                                <varname>Type=notify</varname> (see above).</para></listitem>
+                                <varname>Type=notify</varname> or
+                                <varname>WatchdogUsec=</varname> (see
+                                above). If those options are used but
+                                <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> not
+                                configured it will be implicitly set
+                                to
+                                <option>main</option>.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 for details.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                 for details.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>StartLimitInterval=</varname></term>
+                                <term><varname>StartLimitBurst=</varname></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Configure service
+                                start rate limiting. By default
+                                services which are started more often
+                                than 5 times within 10s are not
+                                permitted to start any more times
+                                until the 10s interval ends. With
+                                these two options this rate limiting
+                                may be modified. Use
+                                <varname>StartLimitInterval=</varname>
+                                to configure the checking interval
+                                (defaults to 10s, set to 0 to disable
+                                any kind of rate limiting). Use
+                                <varname>StartLimitBurst=</varname> to
+                                configure how many starts per interval
+                                are allowed (defaults to 5). These
+                                configuration options are particularly
+                                useful in conjunction with
+                                <varname>Restart=</varname>.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>StartLimitAction=</varname></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Configure the action
+                                to take if the rate limit configured
+                                with
+                                <varname>StartLimitInterval=</varname>
+                                and
+                                <varname>StartLimitBurst=</varname> is
+                                hit. Takes one of
+                                <option>none</option>,
+                                <option>reboot</option>,
+                                <option>reboot-force</option> or
+                                <option>reboot-immediate</option>. If
+                                <option>none</option> is set,
+                                hitting the rate limit will trigger no
+                                action besides that the start will not
+                                be
+                                permitted. <option>reboot</option>
+                                causes a reboot following the normal
+                                shutdown procedure (i.e. equivalent to
+                                <command>systemctl reboot</command>),
+                                <option>reboot-force</option> causes
+                                an forced reboot which will terminate
+                                all processes forcibly but should
+                                cause no dirty file systems on reboot
+                                (i.e. equivalent to <command>systemctl
+                                reboot -f</command>) and
+                                <option>reboot-immediate</option>
+                                causes immediate execution of the
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>reboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                                system call, which might result in
+                                data loss.  Defaults to
+                                <option>none</option>.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>FsckPassNo=</varname></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>If this is an file
+                                system checking service specify the
+                                pass number. This should not be used
+                                for normal services.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
                 </variablelist>
         </refsect1>
 
                 </variablelist>
         </refsect1>