From 38d4ebbac71aa0548ebd1d0d8ab677b7c5d6113e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 13:16:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] `synctl restart` should start synapse if it wasn't running
 (#7624)

---
 changelog.d/7624.bugfix | 1 +
 synctl                  | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/7624.bugfix

diff --git a/changelog.d/7624.bugfix b/changelog.d/7624.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ce55b2cc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/7624.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Make `synctl restart` start synapse if it wasn't running.
diff --git a/synctl b/synctl
index 81e9bf6b5..960fd357e 100755
--- a/synctl
+++ b/synctl
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ def main():
         if start_stop_synapse:
             if not stop(pidfile, "synapse.app.homeserver"):
                 has_stopped = False
-        if not has_stopped:
+        if not has_stopped and action == "stop":
             sys.exit(1)
 
     # Wait for synapse to actually shutdown before starting it again