<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Jerry,<br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 18:13, Jerry Geis <<a href="mailto:jerry.geis@gmail.com">jerry.geis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">is there a correct way to monitor if gdm3 is alive and well ?<div><br></div><div>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.</div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote">I am no systemd expert but I did some searching and came up with this....</div><div class="gmail_quote">systemctl is-active --quiet gdm3 && echo Service is running</div><div class="gmail_quote">after having found this:-</div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396630/the-proper-way-to-test-if-a-service-is-running-in-a-script">https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396630/the-proper-way-to-test-if-a-service-is-running-in-a-script</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Does that help?</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Ian<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>