Systemd service life cycle

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:54:29 +0200, Tom H wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10 April 2016 at 12:08, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:  
>>>
>>> Does "RemainAfterExit=yes" make more than a cosmetic difference for
>>> something like "ip link set * up"?  
>>
>> It makes a difference to what happens if you issue another start. If
>> Remain is set then the start will do nothing as it is still active,
>> if not then it will start it again.  
>
>Thanks! :)

[weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ man systemd.service|grep RemainAfterExit
"[snip]
Another use case is if a oneshot service shall not be executed
a each time when they are pulled in as a dependency, but only
the first time.
[snip]"