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AI-generatedMain process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC – systemd service ExecStart failure
Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC in systemd unit The goal is to determine whether a service that repeatedly fails with exit code 203 due to a missing or non‑executable ExecStart binary will be automatically restarted when Restart=on-failure is set, and whether the RestartPreventExitStatus= directive can reliably suppress those restarts witho