On 12 May 2016 at 16:43, Ondřej Surý <ondrej.sury(a)nic.cz> wrote:
  Test the theory by changing:
 Type=notify
 to
 Type=simple
 
Yeah, I did that.  It just waits longer before terminating. :)
May 12 20:37:58 
master01.tld.dt.conundrum.com knotd[6438]:
2016-05-12T20:37:58 info: control, binding to '/var/run/knot/knot.sock'
May 12 20:39:27 
master01.tld.dt.conundrum.com systemd[1]: knot.service
start operation timed out. Terminating.
With more screwing around I eventually found the problem.  systemd was
quietly refusing to reload the unit file and still thought the daemon was
of type Forking, from hours ago.