How to restart a systemctl service from within the process

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2020-11-22 at 09:45 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> I have a service (a nodejs process running node-red) and want it to
> self-restart.  The obvious way appears to be to invoke
> systemctl restart theservice

Oh, to add to my previous response (sorry) I mean that to restart the
service from inside the service you simply exit the service, and let
systemd restart it. Not sure if the exit value is relevant.

> but I am concerned about the fact that the process running the
> systemctl command will itself be killed as part of the restart

Pretty sure it won't be. But if you discover that there is a problem,
do let us know :-)

Regards, K.

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