NAME

       cdist-type__systemd_service - Controls a systemd service state

DESCRIPTION

       This  type  controls  systemd services to define a state of the service, or an action like
       reloading or restarting. It is useful to reload a service after configuration  applied  or
       shutdown one service.

       The  activation  or deactivation is out of scope. Look for the cdist-type__systemd_util(7)
       type instead.

REQUIRED PARAMETERS

       None.

OPTIONAL PARAMETERS

       name   String which will used as name instead of the object id.

       state  The state which the service should be in:

              running
                     Service should run (default)

              stopped
                     Service should be stopped

       action Executes an action on on the service. It will only execute it if the service  keeps
              the state running. There are following actions, where:

              reload Reloads the service

              restart
                     Restarts the service

BOOLEAN PARAMETERS

       if-required
              Only  execute  the  action  if  at  minimum  one required type outputs a message to
              $__messages_out. Through this, the action should only executed if a dependency  did
              something. The action will not executed if no dependencies given.

MESSAGES

       start  Started the service

       stop   Stopped the service

       restart
              Restarted the service

       reload Reloaded the service

ABORTS

       Aborts in following cases:

       systemd or the service does not exist

EXAMPLES

          # service must run
          __systemd_service nginx

          # service must stopped
          __systemd_service sshd \
              --state stopped

          # restart the service
          __systemd_service apache2 \
              --action restart

          # makes sure the service exist with an alternative name
          __systemd_service foo \
              --name sshd

          # reload the service for a modified configuration file
          # only reloads the service if the file really changed
          require="__file/etc/foo.conf" __systemd_service foo \
              --action reload --if-required

AUTHORS

       Matthias Stecher <matthiasstecher at gmx.de>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  (C)  2020  Matthias Stecher. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
       terms of the GNU General Public License as published  by  the  Free  Software  Foundation,
       either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

COPYRIGHT

       ungleich GmbH 2020