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restart
Restart one or more containers
Aliases
docker container restart
, docker restart
Options
Name | Type | Default | Description |
---|---|---|---|
-s , --signal |
string |
Signal to send to the container | |
-t , --timeout |
int |
0 |
Seconds to wait before killing the container |
Examples
$ docker restart my_container
Stop container with signal (-s, --signal)
The --signal
flag sends the system call signal to the container to exit.
This signal can be a signal name in the format SIG<NAME>
, for instance
SIGKILL
, or an unsigned number that matches a position in the kernel's
syscall table, for instance 9
. Refer to signal(7)
for available signals.
The default signal to use is defined by the image's StopSignal
,
which can be set through the STOPSIGNAL
Dockerfile instruction when building the image, or configured using the
--stop-signal
option when creating the container. If no signal is configured for the
container, SIGTERM
is used as default.
Stop container with timeout (-t, --timeout)
The --timeout
flag sets the number of seconds to wait for the container
to stop after sending the pre-defined (see [--signal
]{#signal)) system call signal.
If the container does not exit after the timeout elapses, it's forcibly killed
with a SIGKILL
signal.
If you set --timeout
to -1
, no timeout is applied, and the daemon
waits indefinitely for the container to exit.
The default timeout can be specified using the --stop-timeout
option when creating the container. If no default is configured for the container,
the Daemon determines the default, and is 10 seconds for Linux containers, and
30 seconds for Windows containers.