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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2015-08-16 18:11:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2015-08-16 18:11:18 +0200 |
| commit | 6416a35db1a2ccfe4289cfa57d03486469027e38 (patch) | |
| tree | 636344459efc80b06a3c7848309dc00de7fe336f | |
| parent | 81f5fc1c5cc324187d29212e619bf9a114a38c2e (diff) | |
| parent | 12e2683d4804326d29ebf92bba9f0dd3810a5ead (diff) | |
Merge pull request #930 from richardmaw-codethink/man-when-exec-start-post
man: Describe when ExecStartFoo= commands are run in more detail
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.service.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml index 7e96989583..4c113a3479 100644 --- a/man/systemd.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd.service.xml @@ -337,6 +337,19 @@ <literal>-</literal>) fail, the rest are not executed and the unit is considered failed.</para> + <para><varname>ExecStart=</varname> commands are only run after + all <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname> commands that were not prefixed + with a <literal>-</literal> exit successfully.</para> + + <para><varname>ExecStartPost=</varname> commands are only run after + the service has started, as determined by <varname>Type=</varname> + (i.e. The process has been started for <varname>Type=simple</varname> + or <varname>Type=idle</varname>, the process exits successfully for + <varname>Type=oneshot</varname>, the initial process exits successfully + for <varname>Type=forking</varname>, <literal>READY=1</literal> is sent + for <varname>Type=notify</varname>, or the <varname>BusName=</varname> + has been taken for <varname>Type=dbus</varname>).</para> + <para>Note that <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname> may not be used to start long-running processes. All processes forked off by processes invoked via <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname> will |