NAME
msvc - control minit
SYNOPSIS
msvc [ -[uodpchaitko] ] [ -P pid ] service [...]
DESCRIPTION
msvc is the management interface to minit. service is the service
directory name relative to /etc/minit. Starting with minit 0.9 you can
also include /etc/minit/ in the service name.
OPTIONS
If no option is given, msvc will just print a small diagnostic message
to stdout, saying if the service is up, down or finished, which PID it
has if it is up, and for how long it has been in this state.
-u Up. If the service is not running, start it. If the service
stops, restart it.
-o Once. If the service is not running, start it. If the service
stops, do not restart it.
-d Down. If the service is running, send it a TERM signal and then a
CONT signal. After it stops, do not restart it.
-p Pause. Send the service a STOP signal.
-c Continue. Send the service a CONT signal.
-h Hangup. Send the service a HUP signal.
-a Alarm. Send the service an ALRM signal.
-i Interrupt. Send the service an INT signal.
-t Terminate. Send the service a TERM signal.
-k Terminate. Send the service a KILL signal.
-P pid
Set PID. Tell minit the PID of the service is really pid. This
is useful for services that fork themselves in the background but
put their real PID in a file, typically called
/var/run/service.pid. Used by pidfilehack.
-D service
Print dependencies. This will print all the names of all the
services that were started because this services depended on them.
Please note that this is not done recursively (i.e. if default
depends on qmail and qmail depends on log, this will print qmail,
not qmail/log. But msvc -D qmail will print qmail/log).
-H Print history. This will print the names of the ten least
recently spawned processes. This is useful if you see a process
looping (initialization fails and minit is restarting it all the
time).
RETURN CODES
Generally, msvc return zero if everything is OK or 1 on error (could
not open /lib/minit/in or /lib/minit/out or there is no process with
the given name). In diagnostic mode, it will exit 0 if the service is
up, 2 if it is down or 3 if it is finished.
SEE ALSO
pidfilehack(8), svc(8)
msvc(8)