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 2021

7.0.0                                             Sep 26, 2023                    CDIST-TYPE__SYSTEMD_SERVICE(7)