From 4d15c92944280312d47198d6861918b3316784bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Hoersten <luke@hoersten.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:19:43 -0500
Subject: bitcoind: harden the service unit for boot and shutdown

- order after network-online: rpcbind fails with getaddrinfo errors
  when bitcoind starts before addresses are configured
- restart on failure so a transient bad start heals itself
- 30min stop timeout: the chainstate flush can far exceed systemd's
  90s default, and a SIGKILL there risks a slow replay or a reindex
---
 bitcoind/templates/bitcoind.service.j2 | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'bitcoind')

diff --git a/bitcoind/templates/bitcoind.service.j2 b/bitcoind/templates/bitcoind.service.j2
index 7c4525a..9106b41 100644
--- a/bitcoind/templates/bitcoind.service.j2
+++ b/bitcoind/templates/bitcoind.service.j2
@@ -1,12 +1,22 @@
 [Unit]
 Description=bitcoind
-After=network.target
+# network-online (not network): rpcbind to the host address fails with
+# getaddrinfo errors if bitcoind starts before addresses are configured
+Wants=network-online.target
+After=network-online.target
 
 [Service]
 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/bitcoind{% if bitcoind_reindex %} -reindex{% endif %}
 
 User={{bitcoind_user}}
 
+Restart=on-failure
+RestartSec=30
+
+# chainstate flush on shutdown can far exceed the 90s default; SIGKILL here
+# risks a slow replay or a reindex
+TimeoutStopSec=1800
+
 PrivateTmp=true
 ProtectSystem=full
 NoNewPrivileges=true
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