Monitor gdm3

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Jerry,

On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 18:13, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:

> is there a correct way to monitor if gdm3 is alive and well ?
>
> I have a couple of OLD OLD machines I installed 20.04 on - sometimes gdm3
> does not start - but doing "systemctl restart gdm3" everything is fine. So
> I thought I would just monitor that gdm3 starts if not restart it on boot.
>
I am no systemd expert but I did some searching and came up with this....
systemctl is-active --quiet gdm3 && echo Service is running
after having found this:-
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396630/the-proper-way-to-test-if-a-service-is-running-in-a-script

Does that help?


Ian

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