How to restart a systemctl service from within the process

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2020-11-23 at 09:21 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 15:50, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > You can have user processes run and handled by systemctl.
> 
> Does that mean that if I have a service running as a particular user
> that the user can 'systemctl restart' it without using sudo?
> Searching hasn't found anything relevant, likely because I am not
> using the right search terms.

Interested in the answer. I have a service running as a user "tomcat",
in that the service file has user and group statements, but I can't
manage it other than with sudo.

Someone in this thread said one could manage non-root service units
without sudo; interested in how that works. Not sure it will help you
if node-red has to run as root.

Regards, K.

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