How to restart a systemctl service from within the process

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2020-11-22 at 11:54 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> I am not sure there
> is any way of telling node-red to exit

Signal it - KILL, TERM, HUP. To quote Dave Lister (approximately) "one
swift knee in the happy sack and it'll drop like all the rest".

> plus I don't really want to
> have to override the standard service file for node-red

Add a service file for your project and make it depend on node-red?

The main reason I don't like having to run systemctl is that it means
the project has to run as root. Maybe it has to anyway, I know zip
about node-red.

Personally I think adding a single line to the standard service file is
a way neater and cleaner solution than bodgied up calls to systemctl.
And you can automate adding the lie(s) too, and save that with your
project.

Regards, K.


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