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Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd.service.xml')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml index c03b4e8a54..0fe694ab7e 100644 --- a/man/systemd.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd.service.xml @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ <?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*--> <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" - "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"> + "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd" [ +<!ENTITY % entities SYSTEM "custom-entities.ent" > +%entities; +]> <!-- This file is part of systemd. @@ -334,6 +337,11 @@ <para>If any of those commands (not prefixed with <literal>-</literal>) fail, the rest are not executed and the unit is considered failed.</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 + be killed before the next service process is run.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -508,7 +516,7 @@ <option>on-failure</option>, the service will be restarted when the process exits with a non-zero exit code, is terminated by a signal (including on core dump, but excluding - the aforementiond four signals), when an operation (such as + the aforementioned four signals), when an operation (such as service reload) times out, and when the configured watchdog timeout is triggered. If set to <option>on-abnormal</option>, the service will be restarted when the process is terminated @@ -886,7 +894,7 @@ <title>Command lines</title> <para>This section describes command line parsing and - variable and specifier substitions for + variable and specifier substitutions for <varname>ExecStart=</varname>, <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname>, <varname>ExecStartPost=</varname>, @@ -1126,7 +1134,7 @@ WantedBy=multi-user.target</programlisting> <varname>Type=</varname><option>oneshot</option> exists. Units of this type will wait until the process specified terminates and then fall back to being inactive. The following unit will - perform a clenaup action:</para> + perform a cleanup action:</para> <programlisting>[Unit] Description=Cleanup old Foo data |