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authorTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2015-06-28 23:10:46 +0200
committerTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2015-06-28 23:10:46 +0200
commite88113bd442a76524b529d558be7acefba394678 (patch)
treeb18cbd7c36b9eceb5b1107ee38c4a5ddf677d9a5
parent281d4a7710b861559f11023657e661511d524ba0 (diff)
parent341db20b7e98199003b4ce6aa52b339757828204 (diff)
Merge pull request #388 from fsateler/doc-pidfile-removal
systemd.service.xml: document that systemd removes the PIDFile
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.service.xml5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index 1e949f0c52..4368ca8a19 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -226,7 +226,10 @@
services where <varname>Type=</varname> is set to
<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>
+ systemd will not write to the file configured here, although
+ it will remove the file after the service has shut down if it
+ still exists.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>