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I've been trying out the Restart= option in some of my own systemd service unit files - which appears to work fine However, I notice that this option is only used in a few OS provided service unit files - and was wondering about the wisdom of adding this capability to other daemons/services? (e.g. chronyd or ntpd, crond, rpcbind, etc, etc) - not that these daemons are likely to crash and

...o crash and need > restarting that often ... I think it's a good idea. We just haven't had a push (either at Red Hat internally or Fedora upstream) to go through and enable this everywhere it makes sense. The guidelines do recommend it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Automatic_restarting > Are there any potential pit-falls in using Restart with OS provided > daemons/services? See the caveat on Restart=on-abnormal in the doc above. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader