systemctl automatically restart service

systemctl automatically restart service

 Pothi Kalimuthu  Linux  October 9, 2016 0 Minutes

References:

1. Ensure systemd services restart on failure by Jon Archer
2. php-fpm systemd unit with auto-restart by Juan Luis Boya García
3. systemd Project Web Page

systemd is a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system and services. The main command used to introspect and control systemd is systemctl.

Basically do the following to let a service restart automatically…

• Edit /lib/systemd/system/name.service file
• Insert “Restart=on-failure” under the section “Service”. Save the file
• Execute the command… systemctl daemon-reload
• Execute the command… systemctl restart name_of_the_service
• (optional) try killing the process now

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Examples for more examples.