Adding Type=forking in the unit file ensure better monitoring from systemd. During a systemctl start the tool is able to return an error if it didn't work with this option. --- contrib/systemd/haproxy.service.in | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/contrib/systemd/haproxy.service.in b/contrib/systemd/haproxy.service.in index 05bb716..ca38d70 100644 --- a/contrib/systemd/haproxy.service.in +++ b/contrib/systemd/haproxy.service.in @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ ExecReload=@SBINDIR@/haproxy -f $CONFIG -c -q ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR2 $MAINPID KillMode=mixed Restart=always +Type=forking [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target -- 2.10.2
