service: flush the start counter in "systemctl reset-failed"

[thirdparty/systemd.git] / man / systemd.service.xml

diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index 60155e68cbd239ba3910109fc6af023009fbaf7f..fcd3a7dd383511395f165878941e39b85ded8823 100644 (file)
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -768,7 +768,15 @@
                                 however they may still be restarted
                                 manually at a later point from which
                                 point on the restart logic is again
-                                activated.</para></listitem>
+                                activated. Note that
+                                <command>systemctl
+                                reset-failed</command> 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.</para></listitem>
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