man: rate limited services can be restartet from timer or socket

If rate limiting kicks in for Restart= logic it is still possible for a
timer or socket to restart the service.
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Christian Hesse 2021-03-23 07:57:03 +01:00 committed by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
parent 39f756d3ae
commit 3babb81625

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@ -1037,13 +1037,13 @@
<varname>Restart=</varname> logic.</para>
<para>Note that units which are configured for <varname>Restart=</varname>, and which reach the start
limit are not attempted to be restarted anymore; however, they may still be restarted manually at a
later point, after the <replaceable>interval</replaceable> has passed. From that point on, the
restart logic is activated again. <command>systemctl reset-failed</command> will cause the restart
rate counter for a service to be flushed, which is useful if the administrator wants to manually
start a unit and the start limit interferes with that. Rate-limiting is enforced after any unit
condition checks are executed, and hence unit activations with failing conditions do not count
towards the rate limit.</para>
limit are not attempted to be restarted anymore; however, they may still be restarted manually or
from a timer or socket at a later point, after the <replaceable>interval</replaceable> has passed.
From that point on, the restart logic is activated again. <command>systemctl reset-failed</command>
will cause the restart rate counter for a service to be flushed, which is useful if the administrator
wants to manually start a unit and the start limit interferes with that. Rate-limiting is enforced
after any unit condition checks are executed, and hence unit activations with failing conditions do
not count towards the rate limit.</para>
<para>When a unit is unloaded due to the garbage collection logic (see above) its rate limit counters
are flushed out too. This means that configuring start rate limiting for a unit that is not