On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:54:43PM +0000, James Pearson wrote: > 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 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