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Priya R
Asked: 2016-09-04 12:34:03 +0800 CST

What is the meaning of holdoff time over in systemd services?

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I have installed Puppet Enterprise on CentOS 7. I can see that several Puppet services fail to start saying holdoff time over. What does this mean?

Sep 03 20:50:16 l-pm1 systemd[1]: pe-puppetdb.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Sep 03 20:50:16 l-pm1 systemd[1]: Starting pe-puppetdb Service...
puppet systemctl

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    After a service stops (or fails to start), systemd waits for a short period of time before attempting to restart it.

    The amount of wait time is configurable by setting RestartSec= in the unit.

    RestartSec=

    Configures the time to sleep before restarting a service (as configured with Restart=). Takes a unit-less value in seconds, or a time span value such as "5min 20s". Defaults to 100ms.

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