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25<refentry id="systemd.service">
26 <refentryinfo>
27 <title>systemd.service</title>
28 <productname>systemd</productname>
29
30 <authorgroup>
31 <author>
32 <contrib>Developer</contrib>
33 <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
34 <surname>Poettering</surname>
35 <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
36 </author>
37 </authorgroup>
38 </refentryinfo>
39
40 <refmeta>
41 <refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle>
42 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
43 </refmeta>
44
45 <refnamediv>
46 <refname>systemd.service</refname>
34511ca7 47 <refpurpose>Service unit configuration</refpurpose>
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48 </refnamediv>
49
50 <refsynopsisdiv>
51 <para><filename>systemd.service</filename></para>
52 </refsynopsisdiv>
53
54 <refsect1>
55 <title>Description</title>
56
1f812fea 57 <para>A unit configuration file whose name ends in
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58 <filename>.service</filename> encodes information
59 about a process controlled and supervised by
60 systemd.</para>
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61
62 <para>This man page lists the configuration options
63 specific to this unit type. See
64 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
65 for the common options of all unit configuration
0d624a78 66 files. The common configuration items are configured
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67 in the generic <literal>[Unit]</literal> and
68 <literal>[Install]</literal> sections. The service
69 specific configuration options are configured in the
70 <literal>[Service]</literal> section.</para>
0d624a78 71
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72 <para>Additional options are listed in
73 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
74 which define the execution environment the commands
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75 are executed in, and in
76 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
77 which define the way the processes of the service are
78 terminated.</para>
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79
80 <para>Unless <varname>DefaultDependencies=</varname>
81 is set to <option>false</option>, service units will
82 implicitly have dependencies of type
83 <varname>Requires=</varname> and
84 <varname>After=</varname> on
85 <filename>basic.target</filename> as well as
86 dependencies of type <varname>Conflicts=</varname> and
87 <varname>Before=</varname> on
88 <filename>shutdown.target</filename>. These ensure
89 that normal service units pull in basic system
90 initialization, and are terminated cleanly prior to
91 system shutdown. Only services involved with early
92 boot or late system shutdown should disable this
93 option.</para>
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94
95 <para>If a service is requested under a certain name
96 but no unit configuration file is found, systemd looks
97 for a SysV init script by the same name (with the
98 <filename>.service</filename> suffix removed) and
99 dynamically creates a service unit from that
100 script. This is useful for compatibility with
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101 SysV. Note that this compatibility is quite
102 comprehensive but not 100%. For details about the
103 incomptibilities see the <ulink
104 url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Incompatibilities">Incompatibilities
105 with SysV</ulink> document.
106 </para>
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107 </refsect1>
108
109 <refsect1>
110 <title>Options</title>
111
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112 <para>Service files must include a
113 <literal>[Service]</literal> section, which carries
114 information about the service and the process it
115 supervises. A number of options that may be used in
116 this section are shared with other unit types. These
117 options are documented in
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118 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
119 and
120 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. The
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121 options specific to the <literal>[Service]</literal>
122 section of service units are the following:</para>
0d624a78 123
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124 <variablelist>
125 <varlistentry>
126 <term><varname>Type=</varname></term>
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127
128 <listitem><para>Configures the process
129 start-up type for this service
130 unit. One of <option>simple</option>,
131 <option>forking</option>,
34e9ba66 132 <option>oneshot</option>,
0d624a78 133 <option>dbus</option>,
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134 <option>notify</option> or
135 <option>idle</option>.</para>
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136
137 <para>If set to
138 <option>simple</option> (the default
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139 value if <varname>BusName=</varname>
140 is not specified) it is expected that
141 the process configured with
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142 <varname>ExecStart=</varname> is the
143 main process of the service. In this
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144 mode, if the process offers
145 functionality to other processes on
146 the system its communication channels
147 should be installed before the daemon
148 is started up (e.g. sockets set up by
149 systemd, via socket activation), as
150 systemd will immediately proceed
151 starting follow-up units.</para>
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152
153 <para>If set to
154 <option>forking</option> it is
155 expected that the process configured
156 with <varname>ExecStart=</varname>
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157 will call <function>fork()</function>
158 as part of its start-up. The parent process is
159 expected to exit when start-up is
160 complete and all communication
161 channels set up. The child continues
162 to run as the main daemon
163 process. This is the behaviour of
164 traditional UNIX daemons. If this
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165 setting is used, it is recommended to
166 also use the
167 <varname>PIDFile=</varname> option, so
168 that systemd can identify the main
169 process of the daemon. systemd will
170 proceed starting follow-up units as
171 soon as the parent process
172 exits.</para>
173
174 <para>Behaviour of
34e9ba66 175 <option>oneshot</option> is similar
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176 to <option>simple</option>, however
177 it is expected that the process has to
178 exit before systemd starts follow-up
02ee865a 179 units. <varname>RemainAfterExit=</varname>
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180 is particularly useful for this type
181 of service.</para>
182
183 <para>Behaviour of
184 <option>dbus</option> is similar to
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185 <option>simple</option>, however it is
186 expected that the daemon acquires a
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187 name on the D-Bus bus, as configured
188 by
189 <varname>BusName=</varname>. systemd
190 will proceed starting follow-up units
191 after the D-Bus bus name has been
62adf224 192 acquired. Service units with this
b1690fe7 193 option configured implicitly gain
62adf224 194 dependencies on the
177b3ffe 195 <filename>dbus.socket</filename>
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196 unit. This type is the default if
197 <varname>BusName=</varname> is
198 specified.</para>
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199
200 <para>Behaviour of
201 <option>notify</option> is similar to
202 <option>simple</option>, however it is
203 expected that the daemon sends a
204 notification message via
205 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
206 or an equivalent call when it finished
207 starting up. systemd will proceed
208 starting follow-up units after this
209 notification message has been sent. If
210 this option is used
62adf224 211 <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> (see
b1690fe7 212 below) should be set to open access to
0d624a78 213 the notification socket provided by
62adf224 214 systemd. If
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215 <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> is
216 not set, it will be implicitly set to
62adf224 217 <option>main</option>.</para>
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218
219 <para>Behaviour of
220 <option>idle</option> is very similar
349b915d 221 to <option>simple</option>, however
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222 actual execution of a the service
223 binary is delayed until all jobs are
224 dispatched. This may be used to avoid
225 interleaving of output of shell
226 services with the status output on the
227 console.</para>
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228 </listitem>
229 </varlistentry>
0d624a78 230
d1ab0ca0 231 <varlistentry>
02ee865a 232 <term><varname>RemainAfterExit=</varname></term>
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233
234 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean value
235 that specifies whether the service
236 shall be considered active even when
237 all its processes exited. Defaults to
238 <option>no</option>.</para>
d1ab0ca0 239 </listitem>
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240 </varlistentry>
241
242 <varlistentry>
243 <term><varname>GuessMainPID=</varname></term>
244
245 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean value
246 that specifies whether systemd should
247 try to guess the main PID of a service
248 should if it cannot be determined
249 reliably. This option is ignored
250 unless <option>Type=forking</option>
251 is set and <option>PIDFile=</option>
252 is unset because for the other types
253 or with an explicitly configured PID
254 file the main PID is always known. The
255 guessing algorithm might come to
256 incorrect conclusions if a daemon
257 consists of more than one process. If
258 the main PID cannot be determined
259 failure detection and automatic
260 restarting of a service will not work
261 reliably. Defaults to
262 <option>yes</option>.</para>
263 </listitem>
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264 </varlistentry>
265
266 <varlistentry>
267 <term><varname>PIDFile=</varname></term>
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268
269 <listitem><para>Takes an absolute file
270 name pointing to the PID file of this
271 daemon. Use of this option is
272 recommended for services where
273 <varname>Type=</varname> is set to
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274 <option>forking</option>. systemd will
275 read the PID of the main process of
276 the daemon after start-up of the
277 service. systemd will not write to the
278 file configured here.</para>
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279 </listitem>
280 </varlistentry>
281
282 <varlistentry>
283 <term><varname>BusName=</varname></term>
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284
285 <listitem><para>Takes a D-Bus bus
286 name, where this service is reachable
287 as. This option is mandatory for
288 services where
289 <varname>Type=</varname> is set to
290 <option>dbus</option>, but its use
291 is otherwise recommended as well if
292 the process takes a name on the D-Bus
293 bus.</para>
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294 </listitem>
295 </varlistentry>
296
297 <varlistentry>
298 <term><varname>ExecStart=</varname></term>
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299 <listitem><para>Takes a command line
300 that is executed when this service
301 shall be started up. The first token
302 of the command line must be an
303 absolute file name, then followed by
304 arguments for the process. It is
305 mandatory to set this option for all
306 services. This option may not be
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307 specified more than once, except when
308 <varname>Type=oneshot</varname> is
309 used in which case more than one
310 <varname>ExecStart=</varname> line is
311 accepted which are then invoked one by
312 one, sequentially in the order they
313 appear in the unit file.</para>
314
315 <para>Optionally, if the absolute file
316 name is prefixed with
317 <literal>@</literal>, the second token
318 will be passed as
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319 <literal>argv[0]</literal> to the
320 executed process, followed by the
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321 further arguments specified. If the
322 first token is prefixed with
b1690fe7 323 <literal>-</literal> an exit code of
b708e7ce 324 the command normally considered a
b1690fe7 325 failure (i.e. non-zero exit status or
5471472d 326 abnormal exit due to signal) is ignored
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327 and considered success. If both
328 <literal>-</literal> and
329 <literal>@</literal> are used for the
5471472d 330 same command the former must precede
b1690fe7 331 the latter. Unless
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332 <varname>Type=forking</varname> is
333 set, the process started via this
334 command line will be considered the
335 main process of the daemon. The
336 command line accepts % specifiers as
337 described in
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338 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
339
340 <para>On top of that basic environment
341 variable substitution is
342 supported. Use
343 <literal>${FOO}</literal> as part of a
344 word, or as word of its own on the
345 command line, in which case it will be
346 replaced by the value of the
347 environment variable including all
348 whitespace it contains, resulting in a
349 single argument. Use
350 <literal>$FOO</literal> as a separate
351 word on the command line, in which
352 case it will be replaced by the value
353 of the environment variable split up
354 at whitespace, resulting in no or more
355 arguments. Note that the first
356 argument (i.e. the program to execute)
357 may not be a variable, and must be a
358 literal and absolute path
359 name.</para></listitem>
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360 </varlistentry>
361
362 <varlistentry>
363 <term><varname>ExecStartPre=</varname></term>
364 <term><varname>ExecStartPost=</varname></term>
365 <listitem><para>Additional commands
366 that are executed before (resp. after)
367 the command in
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368 <varname>ExecStart=</varname>. Multiple
369 command lines may be concatenated in a
c899f8c6 370 single directive, by separating them
b3eaa628 371 by semicolons (these semicolons must
96d4ce01 372 be passed as separate words). In that
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373 case, the commands are executed one
374 after the other,
375 serially. Alternatively, these
376 directives may be specified more than
5471472d 377 once with the same effect. However,
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378 the latter syntax is not recommended
379 for compatibility with parsers
380 suitable for XDG
381 <filename>.desktop</filename> files.
382 Use of these settings is
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383 optional. Specifier and environment
384 variable substitution is
385 supported.</para></listitem>
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386 </varlistentry>
387
388 <varlistentry>
389 <term><varname>ExecReload=</varname></term>
390 <listitem><para>Commands to execute to
391 trigger a configuration reload in the
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392 service. This argument takes multiple
393 command lines, following the same
394 scheme as pointed out for
395 <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname>
396 above. Use of this setting is
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397 optional. Specifier and environment
398 variable substitution is supported
399 here following the same scheme as for
400 <varname>ExecStart=</varname>. One
401 special environment variable is set:
402 if known <literal>$MAINPID</literal> is
403 set to the main process of the
404 daemon, and may be used for command
405 lines like the following:
406 <command>/bin/kill -HUP
075b1e86 407 $MAINPID</command>.</para></listitem>
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408 </varlistentry>
409
410 <varlistentry>
411 <term><varname>ExecStop=</varname></term>
412 <listitem><para>Commands to execute to
413 stop the service started via
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414 <varname>ExecStart=</varname>. This
415 argument takes multiple command lines,
416 following the same scheme as pointed
417 out for
418 <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname>
419 above. Use of this setting is
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420 optional. All processes remaining for
421 a service after the commands
422 configured in this option are run are
423 terminated according to the
424 <varname>KillMode=</varname> setting
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425 (see
426 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>). If
427 this option is not specified the
428 process is terminated right-away when
429 service stop is requested. Specifier
430 and environment variable substitution
431 is supported (including
075b1e86 432 <literal>$MAINPID</literal>, see
420a0166 433 above).</para></listitem>
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434 </varlistentry>
435
436 <varlistentry>
437 <term><varname>ExecStopPost=</varname></term>
438 <listitem><para>Additional commands
439 that are executed after the service
440 was stopped using the commands
441 configured in
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442 <varname>ExecStop=</varname>. This
443 argument takes multiple command lines,
444 following the same scheme as pointed
445 out for
446 <varname>ExecStartPre</varname>. Use
447 of these settings is
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448 optional. Specifier and environment
449 variable substitution is
450 supported.</para></listitem>
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451 </varlistentry>
452
453 <varlistentry>
454 <term><varname>RestartSec=</varname></term>
455 <listitem><para>Configures the time to
456 sleep before restarting a service (as
457 configured with
458 <varname>Restart=</varname>). Takes a
459 unit-less value in seconds, or a time
460 span value such as "5min
461 20s". Defaults to
462 100ms.</para></listitem>
463 </varlistentry>
464
465 <varlistentry>
d568a335 466 <term><varname>TimeoutStartSec=</varname></term>
0d624a78 467 <listitem><para>Configures the time to
d568a335 468 wait for start-up. If a
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469 daemon service does not signal
470 start-up completion within the
d568a335 471 configured time, the service will be
0d624a78 472 considered failed and be shut down
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473 again.
474 Takes a unit-less value in seconds, or a
475 time span value such as "5min
476 20s". Pass 0 to disable the timeout
477 logic. Defaults to 90s, except when
478 <varname>Type=oneshot</varname> is
479 used in which case the timeout
480 is disabled by default.
481 </para></listitem>
482 </varlistentry>
483
484 <varlistentry>
485 <term><varname>TimeoutStopSec=</varname></term>
486 <listitem><para>Configures the time to
487 wait for stop. If a service is asked
488 to stop but does not terminate in the
489 specified time, it will be terminated
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490 forcibly via SIGTERM, and after
491 another delay of this time with
d568a335 492 SIGKILL (See
62adf224 493 <varname>KillMode=</varname>
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494 in <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>).
495 Takes a unit-less value in seconds, or a
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496 time span value such as "5min
497 20s". Pass 0 to disable the timeout
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498 logic. Defaults to 90s.
499 </para></listitem>
500 </varlistentry>
501
502 <varlistentry>
503 <term><varname>TimeoutSec=</varname></term>
504 <listitem><para>A shorthand for configuring
505 both <varname>TimeoutStartSec=</varname>
506 and <varname>TimeoutStopSec=</varname>
507 to the specified value.
508 </para></listitem>
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509 </varlistentry>
510
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511 <varlistentry>
512 <term><varname>WatchdogSec=</varname></term>
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513 <listitem><para>Configures the
514 watchdog timeout for a service. This
515 is activated when the start-up is
516 completed. The service must call
bb242b7b 517 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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518 regularly with "WATCHDOG=1" (i.e. the
519 "keep-alive ping"). If the time
520 between two such calls is larger than
521 the configured time then the service
522 is placed in a failure state. By
523 setting <varname>Restart=</varname> to
524 <option>on-failure</option> or
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525 <option>always</option> the service
526 will be automatically restarted. The
527 time configured here will be passed to
528 the executed service process in the
529 <varname>WATCHDOG_USEC=</varname>
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530 environment variable. This allows
531 daemons to automatically enable the
532 keep-alive pinging logic if watchdog
533 support is enabled for the service. If
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534 this option is used
535 <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> (see
536 below) should be set to open access to
537 the notification socket provided by
538 systemd. If
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539 <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> is
540 not set, it will be implicitly set to
02c4ef9c 541 <option>main</option>. Defaults to 0,
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542 which disables this
543 feature.</para></listitem>
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544 </varlistentry>
545
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546 <varlistentry>
547 <term><varname>Restart=</varname></term>
548 <listitem><para>Configures whether the
50caaedb 549 main service process shall be
f8553ccb 550 restarted when it exits. Takes one of
525ee6f4 551 <option>no</option>,
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552 <option>on-success</option>,
553 <option>on-failure</option>,
554 <option>on-abort</option> or
555 <option>always</option>. If set to
556 <option>no</option> (the default) the
557 service will not be restarted when it
558 exits. If set to
559 <option>on-success</option> it will be
560 restarted only when it exited cleanly,
561 i.e. terminated with an exit code of
562 0. If set to
563 <option>on-failure</option> it will be
5471472d 564 restarted only when it exited with an
092317d0 565 exit code not equalling 0, when
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566 terminated by a signal (including on
567 core dump), when an operation (such as
568 service reload) times out or when the
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569 configured watchdog timeout is
570 triggered. If set to
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571 <option>on-abort</option> it will be
572 restarted only if it exits due to
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573 reception of an uncaught signal
574 (including on core dump). If set to
575 <option>always</option> the service
576 will be restarted regardless whether
577 it exited cleanly or not, got
578 terminated abnormally by a signal or
579 hit a timeout.</para></listitem>
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580 </varlistentry>
581
582 <varlistentry>
583 <term><varname>PermissionsStartOnly=</varname></term>
584 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean
585 argument. If true, the permission
586 related execution options as
587 configured with
588 <varname>User=</varname> and similar
589 options (see
590 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
591 for more information) are only applied
592 to the process started with
593 <varname>ExecStart=</varname>, and not
594 to the various other
595 <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname>,
596 <varname>ExecStartPost=</varname>,
597 <varname>ExecReload=</varname>,
598 <varname>ExecStop=</varname>,
599 <varname>ExecStopPost=</varname>
600 commands. If false, the setting is
601 applied to all configured commands the
602 same way. Defaults to
603 false.</para></listitem>
604 </varlistentry>
605
606 <varlistentry>
607 <term><varname>RootDirectoryStartOnly=</varname></term>
608 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean
609 argument. If true, the root directory
610 as configured with the
611 <varname>RootDirectory=</varname>
612 option (see
613 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
614 for more information) is only applied
615 to the process started with
616 <varname>ExecStart=</varname>, and not
617 to the various other
618 <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname>,
619 <varname>ExecStartPost=</varname>,
620 <varname>ExecReload=</varname>,
621 <varname>ExecStop=</varname>,
622 <varname>ExecStopPost=</varname>
623 commands. If false, the setting is
624 applied to all configured commands the
625 same way. Defaults to
626 false.</para></listitem>
627 </varlistentry>
628
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629 <varlistentry>
630 <term><varname>NonBlocking=</varname></term>
631 <listitem><para>Set O_NONBLOCK flag
632 for all file descriptors passed via
633 socket-based activation. If true, all
634 file descriptors >= 3 (i.e. all except
635 STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR) will have
636 the O_NONBLOCK flag set and hence are in
637 non-blocking mode. This option is only
638 useful in conjunction with a socket
639 unit, as described in
640 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Defaults
641 to false.</para></listitem>
642 </varlistentry>
643
644 <varlistentry>
645 <term><varname>NotifyAccess=</varname></term>
646 <listitem><para>Controls access to the
647 service status notification socket, as
648 accessible via the
649 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
650 call. Takes one of
651 <option>none</option> (the default),
652 <option>main</option> or
653 <option>all</option>. If
654 <option>none</option> no daemon status
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657 are ignored. If <option>main</option>
658 only service updates sent from the
659 main process of the service are
660 accepted. If <option>all</option> all
661 services updates from all members of
662 the service's control group are
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665 when using
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667 <varname>WatchdogUsec=</varname> (see
668 above). If those options are used but
669 <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> not
670 configured it will be implicitly set
671 to
672 <option>main</option>.</para></listitem>
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674
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676 <term><varname>Sockets=</varname></term>
677 <listitem><para>Specifies the name of
678 the socket units this service shall
679 inherit the sockets from when the
4f025f4c 680 service is started. Normally it
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682 setting as all sockets whose unit
683 shares the same name as the service
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685 are passed to the spawned
686 process.</para>
687
688 <para>Note that the same socket may be
689 passed to multiple processes at the
690 same time. Also note that a different
691 service may be activated on incoming
692 traffic than inherits the sockets. Or
693 in other words: The
694 <varname>Service=</varname> setting of
695 <filename>.socket</filename> units
696 doesn't have to match the inverse of the
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699 refers to.</para></listitem>
700 </varlistentry>
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703 <term><varname>StartLimitInterval=</varname></term>
704 <term><varname>StartLimitBurst=</varname></term>
705
706 <listitem><para>Configure service
707 start rate limiting. By default
708 services which are started more often
709 than 5 times within 10s are not
710 permitted to start any more times
711 until the 10s interval ends. With
712 these two options this rate limiting
713 may be modified. Use
714 <varname>StartLimitInterval=</varname>
715 to configure the checking interval
716 (defaults to 10s, set to 0 to disable
717 any kind of rate limiting). Use
718 <varname>StartLimitBurst=</varname> to
719 configure how many starts per interval
720 are allowed (defaults to 5). These
721 configuration options are particularly
722 useful in conjunction with
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724 apply to all kinds of starts
725 (including manual), not just those
726 triggered by the
727 <varname>Restart=</varname> logic.
728 Note that units which are configured
729 for <varname>Restart=</varname> and
730 which reach the start limit are not
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732 however they may still be restarted
733 manually at a later point from which
734 point on the restart logic is again
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736 <command>systemctl
737 reset-failed</command> will cause the
738 restart rate counter for a service to
739 be flushed, which is useful if the
740 administrator wants to manually start
741 a service and the start limit
742 interferes with
743 that.</para></listitem>
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745
746 <varlistentry>
747 <term><varname>StartLimitAction=</varname></term>
748
749 <listitem><para>Configure the action
750 to take if the rate limit configured
751 with
752 <varname>StartLimitInterval=</varname>
753 and
754 <varname>StartLimitBurst=</varname> is
755 hit. Takes one of
756 <option>none</option>,
757 <option>reboot</option>,
758 <option>reboot-force</option> or
759 <option>reboot-immediate</option>. If
760 <option>none</option> is set,
761 hitting the rate limit will trigger no
762 action besides that the start will not
763 be
764 permitted. <option>reboot</option>
765 causes a reboot following the normal
766 shutdown procedure (i.e. equivalent to
767 <command>systemctl reboot</command>),
768 <option>reboot-force</option> causes
769 an forced reboot which will terminate
770 all processes forcibly but should
771 cause no dirty file systems on reboot
772 (i.e. equivalent to <command>systemctl
773 reboot -f</command>) and
774 <option>reboot-immediate</option>
775 causes immediate execution of the
776 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>reboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
777 system call, which might result in
778 data loss. Defaults to
779 <option>none</option>.</para></listitem>
780 </varlistentry>
781
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784 <para>Check
785 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
786 and
787 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
788 for more settings.</para>
789
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793 <title>Compatibility Options</title>
794
795 <para>The following options are also available in the
796 <literal>[Service]</literal> section, but exist purely
797 for compatibility reasons and should not be used in
798 newly written service files.</para>
799
800 <variablelist>
801 <varlistentry>
802 <term><varname>SysVStartPriority=</varname></term>
803 <listitem><para>Set the SysV start
804 priority to use to order this service
805 in relation to SysV services lacking
806 LSB headers. This option is only
807 necessary to fix ordering in relation
808 to legacy SysV services, that have no
809 ordering information encoded in the
810 script headers. As such it should only
811 be used as temporary compatibility
812 option, and not be used in new unit
813 files. Almost always it is a better
814 choice to add explicit ordering
815 directives via
816 <varname>After=</varname> or
817 <varname>Before=</varname>,
818 instead. For more details see
819 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. If
820 used, pass an integer value in the
821 range 0-99.</para></listitem>
822 </varlistentry>
823
824 <varlistentry>
825 <term><varname>FsckPassNo=</varname></term>
826 <listitem><para>Set the fsck passno
827 priority to use to order this service
828 in relation to other file system
829 checking services. This option is only
830 necessary to fix ordering in relation
831 to fsck jobs automatically created for
832 all <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>
833 entries with a value in the fs_passno
834 column > 0. As such it should only be
835 used as option for fsck
836 services. Almost always it is a better
837 choice to add explicit ordering
838 directives via
839 <varname>After=</varname> or
840 <varname>Before=</varname>,
841 instead. For more details see
842 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. If
843 used, pass an integer value in the
844 same range as
845 <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>'s
846 fs_passno column. See
847 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
848 for details.</para></listitem>
849 </varlistentry>
850
851 </variablelist>
852 </refsect1>
853
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855 <title>See Also</title>
856 <para>
f3e219a2 857 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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859 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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860 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
861 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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863 </refsect1>
864
865</refentry>