systemd / active (exited)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:57:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:58:07 -0000 (UTC), Helmut Schneider wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>what do I have to do that systemd shows correctly if a daemon is
>>running or not?
>>
>>helmut at h2786452:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon-chroot status; echo
>>$? _ clamav-daemon-chroot.service - LSB: ClamAV daemon
>>   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/clamav-daemon-chroot; bad; vendor
>>preset: enabled)
>>   Active: active (exited) since Thu 2019-08-29 12:33:49 CEST; 1h
>> 23min
>>ago
>>     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
>>
>>Aug 29 12:32:58 h2786452 clamav-daemon-chroot[8654]:  * Starting
>>ClamAV daemon...
>>Aug 29 12:33:49 h2786452 clamav-daemon-chroot[8654]:  * ClamAV daemon
>>is now up and ...!
>>Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
>>0
>>helmut at h2786452:~$ pgrep clamd
>>helmut at h2786452:~$
>>
>>Thank you!  
>
>Start the service by a systemd unit and then check with systemctl.
>
>"systemd-sysv-generator is a generator that creates wrapper .service
>units for SysV init scripts" -
>https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-sysv-generator.html
>
>This likely means that the unit does start the init script, not calmd.
>The init script does start calmd. IOW I suspect systemd only returns
>the status of the init script, not of calmd.

Oops, "clamd" :D. It might not only return the status of the script,
but also its output, but since it's not SysV inti or upstart, there is
no monitoring of the status anymore, after the script successfully
exited.

Just a wild guess ;).