From 3185a36b05d53757a412f847d8c510978b9b00f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:51:30 +0100
Subject: service: make main pid guessing optional, and reread pid file after
 reloads

---
 man/systemd.service.xml | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

(limited to 'man/systemd.service.xml')

diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index 3bd058f00b..7200525c03 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -215,6 +215,30 @@
                                 </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>GuessMainPID=</varname></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Takes a boolean value
+                                that specifies whether systemd should
+                                try to guess the main PID of a service
+                                should if it cannot be determined
+                                reliably. This option is ignored
+                                unless <option>Type=forking</option>
+                                is set and <option>PIDFile=</option>
+                                is unset because for the other types
+                                or with an explicitly configured PID
+                                file the main PID is always known. The
+                                guessing algorithm might come to
+                                incorrect conclusions if a daemon
+                                consists of more than one process. If
+                                the main PID cannot be determined
+                                failure detection and automatic
+                                restarting of a service will not work
+                                reliably. Defaults to
+                                <option>yes</option>.</para>
+                                </listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>PIDFile=</varname></term>
 
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