On Thu, 20 May 2021 17:13:16 +0200 (CEST), Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> > >On Thu, 20 May 2021, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote: > >> On Thu, 20 May 2021 14:52:47 +0200 (CEST), Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal >> <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 20 May 2021, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote: >>> >>>> I would like my service application to restart itself once per 24 hours, >>>> but >>>> only when nothing else is going on. So the application itself would know >>>> this >>>> but how can I make it restart itself (as the service)? >>> >>> Just exit ? >>> If you configured systemd to start your app correctly it will restart it. >>> >> >> Is it as simple as that? Here is my service file: >> >> [Unit] >> Description=SSRemote Server >> Wants=network.target >> After=syslog.target network-online.target >> >> [Service] >> Type=simple >> ExecStart=/agi/ssremote/bin/SSRemoteServerLx >> Restart=always #<== This >> RestartSec=10 #<== And this >> KillMode=process >> User=pi >> >> [Install] >> WantedBy=multi-user.target >> >> Do these 2 marked lines mean that if the service application just exits >> (with no >> exit code) systemd will restart it after 10 seconds? > >Yes. > >> >> And: >> Right now I am running it as user pi as shown above, is there some reason I >> should run it as root instead? > >Running as root is not recommended. You can do it, but I would not. > Thanks Michael, much obliged! Makes things so much simpler. Just exit at the appropriate time. :-) -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
