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perpctl(8)		persistent process supervision		    perpctl(8)

NAME
       perpctl - runtime control utility for perpd(8) services

SYNOPSIS
       perpctl [-hV] [-b basedir ] [-g]	[-L] [-q] cmd sv [ sv ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       perpctl	sends the command specified in cmd to the perpd(8) control in-
       terface for each	service	argument sv.

       The argument cmd	may be given as	a single word of any length, but  only
       the  first  letter is considered.  The available	commands include (with
       mnemonic	in parentheses):

       A (Activate)
	      Sets the sticky bit on each sv service  directory	 argument  and
	      sends  SIGHUP  to	 perpd(8).   The effect	is to activate each sv
	      service.

       X ([e]Xit)
	      Unsets the sticky	bit on each sv service directory argument  and
	      sends  SIGHUP  to	perpd(8).  The effect is to bring down each sv
	      service and remove it from the set of services perpd(8) is moni-
	      toring.

       d (down)
	      If the service is	running, send it a  sequence  of  SIGTERM  and
	      SIGCONT  signals	to bring it down.  perpd(8) will flag the ser-
	      vice as wanting down: if	the  service  stops  it	 will  not  be
	      restarted.

       u (up)
	      If  the service is not already running, start it.	 perpd(8) will
	      flag the service as wanting up: if the service stops it will  be
	      restarted.

       o (once)
	      If  the service is not already running, start it.	 perpd(8) will
	      flag the service to run once: if the service stops it  will  not
	      be restarted.

       p (pause)
	      Send  the	service	a SIGSTOP signal.  Normally this suspends exe-
	      cution of	the  service.	perpd(8)  will	flag  the  service  as
	      paused.

       c (continue)
	      Send  the	 service  a SIGCONT signal.  Normally a	paused service
	      will then	resume execution.  perpd(8) will remove	a  pause  flag
	      on the service.

       a (alarm)
       h (hup)
       i (interrupt)
       k (kill)
       q (quit)
       t (term)
       w (winch)
       1 (usr1)
       2 (usr2)
	      Send  the	 service a corresponding signal: SIGALRM, SIGHUP, SIG-
	      INT, SIGKILL, SIGQUIT, SIGTERM, SIGWINCH,	SIGUSR1	or SIGUSR2.

       D (meta-Down)
       U (meta-Up)
	      When given in upper-case,	the d (down) and u (up)	 commands  de-
	      scribed above are	applied	to both	the main and log services.

       The  signal/control commands listed above are applied to	an active ser-
       vice process running from the ``start''	target	of  its	 perpetrate(5)
       runscript.   perpd(8)  will  otherwise  ignore  any of the commands de-
       scribed above if	received while a service is resetting, except for  the
       commands	c (continue/SIGCONT) or	k (kill/SIGKILL).

OPTIONS
       -b basedir
	      Base directory.  Sets the	base directory containing the sv argu-
	      ments.  If not set, perpctl will look for	a value	set in the en-
	      vironmental  variable  PERP_BASE.	  If  neither of these is set,
	      perpctl will operate on the current working directory.

       -g     Group.  Apply the	requested command  to  the  process  group  id
	      (pgid)  of each sv service.  Normally the	signal is applied only
	      to the single process id of the  service.	  perpd(8)  runs  each
	      main  and	 log process in	its own	separate process group;	the -g
	      option directs perpd(8) to signal	all process running  with  the
	      pgid of the service.  May	be combined with the -L	option to sig-
	      nal all processes	in the process group of	the logging service.

       -h     Help.  Print a brief usage message to stderr and exit.

       -L     Logger.	Apply  the  cmd	argument to the	active logging service
	      found in sv services.  By	default, the cmd argument  is  applied
	      to  the  main  service.  The -L option is	not allowed when using
	      any of the meta-commands D, U, or	X.

       -q     Quiet.  Normally after successfully applying the cmd to each sv,
	      perpctl reports a	brief message to stderr.  The -q option	may be
	      used to suppress these messages.

       -V     Version.	Print the version number of the	program	to stderr  and
	      exit.

DIAGNOSTICS
       For  each sv successfully processed, perpctl prints a line to stderr in
       the form:

	      sv: ok

       For each	sv not successfully processed, perpctl prints a	brief diagnos-
       tic to stderr and continues processing any remaining sv.

EXIT STATUS
       perpctl exits with one of the following values:

       0      Success.	The cmd	was successfully delivered to all  sv  service
	      arguments.

       100    Usage  error.   For unknown options, missing arguments, or other
	      command-line errors.   Prints  a	brief  diagnostic  message  to
	      stderr on	exit.

       111    System  error.   One  or more errors were	encountered while pro-
	      cessing.	These may include unexpected failures of system	calls,
	      privilege	and/or resource	problems, or configuration  errors  in
	      the  base	 directory.   A	brief diagnostic message is printed to
	      stderr for each error encountered.

AUTHOR
       Wayne Marshall, http://b0llix.net/perp/

SEE ALSO
       perp_intro(8),  perpboot(8),   perpd(8),	  perpetrate(5),   perphup(8),
       perpls(8), perpok(8), perpstat(8), sissylog(8), tinylog(8)

perp-2.07			 January 2013			    perpctl(8)

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