Alternatively, NotifyAccess= in [Service allows other processes to ping
the watchdog, but Simon is right...
forking is not needed for systemd.
On 19/01/2018 18:41, Simon McVittie wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 at 17:22:51 +0000, philip is hungry wrote:
however if i run the forkme function (to put process in the background) it
behaves as follows:
Jan 18 15:06:25 thinkpad waitonly[11228]: Return from forkme = 11228
Jan 18 15:06:25 thinkpad waitonly[11228]: Return from lockme = 0
Jan 18 15:06:25 thinkpad waitonly[11228]: PID to compare with watchdog_pid:
11228
systemd tells your service which process it expects to be sending
keepalives ($WATCHDOG_PID), and only accepts keepalives from that
process. The forked child process has some other process ID, so
sd_watchdog_enabled() returns false for it.
If you want to use the watchdog, don't fork and go to the background: it's
unnecessary for systemd services. To notify systemd that your process
is ready to receive requests (which was done via the double-fork trick
in init-script-based init systems), a daemon that natively supports
systemd features can use sd_notify() and Type=notify.
If you want your service to continue to support non-systemd init systems,
you might want to add a --no-fork command-line option and make the systemd
unit's ExecStart use that option. For example, that's how it works for
dbus-daemon, which needs to continue to default to forking for
compatibility with what it does on non-Linux OSs or non-systemd init.
Or, if your service will only ever run under systemd, you can make it
not fork/background itself at all.
smcv
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