to <option>simple</option>, however
it is expected that the process has to
exit before systemd starts follow-up
- units. <varname>ValidNoProcess=</varname>
+ units. <varname>RemainAfterExit=</varname>
is particularly useful for this type
of service.</para>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><varname>ValidNoProcess=</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>RemainAfterExit=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a boolean value
that specifies whether the service
by the string value of the environment
variable of the same name. Also
<literal>$FOO</literal> may appear as
- seperate word on the command line in
+ separate word on the command line in
which case the variable is replaced by
- its value split at
- whitespaces.</para></listitem>
+ its value split at whitespaces. Note
+ that the first argument (i.e. the
+ binary to execute) may not be a
+ variable, and must be a literal and
+ absolute path name.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
the command in
<varname>ExecStart=</varname>. Multiple
command lines may be concatenated in a
- single directive, by seperating them
+ single directive, by separating them
by semicolons (these semicolons must
- be passed as seperate words). In that
+ be passed as separate words). In that
case, the commands are executed one
after the other,
serially. Alternatively, these
daemon, and may be used for command
lines like the following:
<command>/bin/kill -HUP
- $(MAINPID)</command>.</para></listitem>
+ $MAINPID</command>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
requested. Specifier and environment
variable substitution is supported
(including
- <literal>$(MAINPID)</literal>, see
+ <literal>$MAINPID</literal>, see
above).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Restart=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Configures whether the
- main service process shall be restarted when
- it exists. Takes one of
- <option>once</option>,
- <option>restart-on-success</option> or
- <option>restart-always</option>. If
- set to <option>once</option> (the
- default) the service will not be
- restarted when it exits. If set to
- <option>restart-on-success</option> it
- will be restarted only when it exited
- cleanly, i.e. terminated with an exit
- code of 0. If set to
- <option>restart-always</option> the
+ main service process shall be
+ restarted when it exists. Takes one of
+ <option>no</option>,
+ <option>on-success</option>,
+ <option>on-failure</option>,
+ <option>on-abort</option> or
+ <option>always</option>. If set to
+ <option>no</option> (the default) the
+ service will not be restarted when it
+ exits. If set to
+ <option>on-success</option> it will be
+ restarted only when it exited cleanly,
+ i.e. terminated with an exit code of
+ 0. If set to
+ <option>on-failure</option> it will be
+ restared only when it exited with an
+ exit code not equalling 0, or when
+ terminated by a signal. 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, or
got terminated abnormally by a
<varname>Type=notify</varname> (see above).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>Sockets=</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>Specifies the name of
+ the socket units this service shall
+ inherit the sockets from when the
+ service (ignoring the different suffix
+ of course) is started. Normally it
+ should not be necessary to use this
+ setting as all sockets whose unit
+ shares the same name as the service
+ are passed to the spawned
+ process.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that the same socket may be
+ passed to multiple processes at the
+ same time. Also note that a different
+ service may be activated on incoming
+ traffic than inherits the sockets. Or
+ in other words: The
+ <varname>Service=</varname> setting of
+ <filename>.socket</filename> units
+ doesn't have to match the inverse of the
+ <varname>Sockets=</varname> setting of
+ the <filename>.service</filename> it
+ refers to.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>FsckPassNo=</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>Set the fsck passno
+ priority to use to order this service
+ in relation to other file system
+ checking services. This option is only
+ necessary to fix ordering in relation
+ to fsck jobs automatically created for
+ all <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>
+ entries with a value in the fs_passno
+ column > 0. As such it should only be
+ used as option for fsck
+ services. Almost always it is a better
+ choice to add explicit ordering
+ directives via
+ <varname>After=</varname> or
+ <varname>Before=</varname>,
+ instead. For more details see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. If
+ used, pass an integer value in the
+ same range as
+ <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>'s
+ fs_passno column. See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ for details.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
</variablelist>
</refsect1>