should skip service with RefuseManualStop=yes

[duck-rh]

Quack,

This was on CentOS 7.3:

 systemctl restart auditd.service
Failed to restart auditd.service: Operation refused, unit auditd.service may be requested by dependency only.
See system logs and 'systemctl status auditd.service' for details.

Restarting manually gives the same result.

In the service file there is RefuseManualStop=yes which explains the situation. In this case I don't think needrestart can do anything else but skip this service.

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[duck-rh]

Thanks a lot :-)