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                                 acquired. Service units with this
                                 option configured implicitly gain
                                 dependencies on the
-                                <filename>dbus.target</filename>
+                                <filename>dbus.socket</filename>
                                 unit.</para>
 
                                 <para>Behaviour of
                                 </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>GuessMainPID=</varname></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Takes a boolean value
+                                that specifies whether systemd should
+                                try to guess the main PID of a service
+                                should if it cannot be determined
+                                reliably. This option is ignored
+                                unless <option>Type=forking</option>
+                                is set and <option>PIDFile=</option>
+                                is unset because for the other types
+                                or with an explicitly configured PID
+                                file the main PID is always known. The
+                                guessing algorithm might come to
+                                incorrect conclusions if a daemon
+                                consists of more than one process. If
+                                the main PID cannot be determined
+                                failure detection and automatic
+                                restarting of a service will not work
+                                reliably. Defaults to
+                                <option>yes</option>.</para>
+                                </listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>PIDFile=</varname></term>
 
                                 daemon. Use of this option is
                                 recommended for services where
                                 <varname>Type=</varname> is set to
-                                <option>forking</option>.</para>
+                                <option>forking</option>. systemd will
+                                read the PID of the main process of
+                                the daemon after start-up of the
+                                service. systemd will not write to the
+                                file configured here.</para>
                                 </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                 time span value such as "5min
                                 20s". Pass 0 to disable the timeout
                                 logic. Defaults to
-                                60s.</para></listitem>
+                                90s.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 processes of this service shall be
                                 killed. One of
                                 <option>control-group</option>,
-                                <option>process-group</option>,
                                 <option>process</option>,
                                 <option>none</option>.</para>
 
                                 stop command (as configured with
                                 <varname>ExecStop=</varname>) is
                                 executed. If set to
-                                <option>process-group</option> only
-                                the members of the process group of
-                                the main service process are
-                                killed. If set to
                                 <option>process</option> only the main
                                 process itself is killed. If set to
                                 <option>none</option> no process is