Monitor gdm3

[Jerry Geis]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 1:23 PM Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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Ian - Thanks - I was not finding that.

Jerry
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