On Wed, 30.07.14 12:22, Ansgar Burchardt (ans...@debian.org) wrote: > Hi, > > while looking at how to convert sysvinit scripts to service files in > Debian, I noticed that some scripts do an additional sanity check during > the restart action. That is, they run an extra command to validate the > configuration and only restart the service on success. > > Systemd doesn't seem to provide such an option so far. Would you think > this is something one would like to see? If yes, what about the > following idea: > > Add an ExecRestartPre option in the [Service] section. These commands > are executed when a restart is requested, before the service is stopped. > If they fail, the restart is aborted with an error.
This has been a TODO item since a long time. The usecase seems valid. So far nobody found the time to implement this though. Happy to take patches... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
