snappy services - auto restart

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Myles,

Myles Caley [2015-04-20 12:05 -0400]:
> Is there a way to configure services in snapps to auto-restart if the
> process dies?

In a systemd unit this is the "Restart=" option, see man
systemd.service(5). In paticular, Restart=on-failure is the most
popular option.

However, TTBOMK this option isn't exposed in the snap's YAML, so this
needs to be added there.

> Along the same lines, is there a way via snappy CLI to manually
> restart a service if it does die?

Sure, "sudo systemctl restart foo.service"; if you prefer, you can
also use the init system agnostic and distro neutral "service"
command, i. e. "sudo service foo restart".

Along these lines, "systemctl --failed" is an useful command to list
failed/crashed servies.

Martin

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