<tt>> This should work exactly as you've written it.</tt> <tt>I believe I figured out my problem. A line in the watchdog conf file had</tt> <tt>accidently become uncommented, and thus I had 2 "stop on" stanzas.</tt> <tt>Looks like the last one wins. :-)</tt> <tt>It's working now.</tt> <tt> > > What would be nice is a "restart on ..." stanza. I could also see that > > an "restart limit ..." stanza should follow. > > > We had something like this once; it got removed when the states were > simplified such that a restart was roughly equivalent to stop/start.  If > it came back, you'd then have to have additional events for restarting > and restarted.</tt> <tt>I'm getting the behavior that I want. When I do an "initctl restart application"</tt> <tt>it stops the watchdog, stops the application, starts the application, starts</tt> <tt>the watchdog. To get this behavior, I need to do an "initctl restart ..."</tt> <tt>instead of "initctl emit ...", which isn't a big deal.</tt> <tt> On a more general note, I have to say that a policy-based event-driven </tt> <tt>service manager is very elegant. Nice job.</tt> <tt>-- Marcel</tt>