From 351410ea8cd7e45be42ab394e138a350c241183a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe LeVeque <jleveque@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:39:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [swss.sh] When starting, call 'systemctl restart' on
 dependents, not (#3807)

'systemctl start'
---
 files/scripts/swss.sh | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/files/scripts/swss.sh b/files/scripts/swss.sh
index 65eaf08148a8..f54c13697753 100755
--- a/files/scripts/swss.sh
+++ b/files/scripts/swss.sh
@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ start_peer_and_dependent_services() {
     if [[ x"$WARM_BOOT" != x"true" ]]; then
         /bin/systemctl start ${PEER}
         for dep in ${DEPENDENT}; do
-            /bin/systemctl start ${dep}
+            # Here we call `systemctl restart` on each dependent service instead of `systemctl start` to
+            # ensure the services actually get stopped and started in case they were not previously stopped.
+            /bin/systemctl restart ${dep}
         done
     fi
 }