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I have deployment (capistrano) that, on success, reloads systemd:

sudo systemctl reload myserver.service

But, just after the first deploy, the service is not yet running. In that case, I want to start it, instead.

sudo systemctl start myserver.service

Is there a flag or other trick in systemd that figures out: "is the service running, then reload, otherwise, start it"? The alternative would be to build this into the deployment tooling itself, but I'd rather use existing features if systemd provides these.

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You probably mixed something up. The command to reload or start a systemd service is systemctl.
You can try

sudo systemctl reload-or-restart myserver.service

That should do what You asked for.

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  • Sorry about the confusion: I have systemctl aliased to systemd. Because I keep mixing up systemctl with sysctl. But it seems the reload-or-restart does what I want it to do.
    – berkes
    Oct 20, 2019 at 16:41

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