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chpst(8)		     System Manager's Manual			chpst(8)

NAME
     chpst - runs a program with a changed process state

SYNOPSIS
     chpst  [-vP012]  [-u user] [-U user] [-b argv0] [-e dir] [-/ root] [-n inc]
     [-l|-L lock] [-m bytes] [-d bytes] [-o n] [-p n] [-f bytes] [-c bytes] prog

DESCRIPTION
     prog consists of one or more arguments.

     chpst changes the process state according to the given  options,  and  runs
     prog.

OPTIONS
     -u [:]user[:group]
	    setuidgid.	 Set  uid and gid to the user's uid and gid, as found in
	    /etc/passwd.  If user is followed by a colon and a	group,	set  the
	    gid  to  group's gid, as found in /etc/group, instead of user's gid.
	    If group consists of a colon-separated list of  group  names,  chpst
	    sets the group ids of all listed groups.  If user is prefixed with a
	    colon,  the  user and all group arguments are interpreted as uid and
	    gids respectivly, and not looked up in the password or  group  file.
	    All initial supplementary groups are removed.

     -U [:]user[:group]
	    envuidgid.	 Set  the  environment	variables  $UID  and $GID to the
	    user's uid and gid, as found in /etc/passwd.  If user is followed by
	    a colon and a group, set $GID  to  the  group's  gid,  as  found  in
	    /etc/group,  instead  of  user's  gid.   If  user is prefixed with a
	    colon, the user and group arguments are interpreted as uid	and  gid
	    respectivly, and not looked up in the password or group file.

     -b argv0
	    argv0.  Run prog with argv0 as the 0th argument.

     -e dir
	    envdir.   Set various environment variables as specified by files in
	    the directory dir: If dir contains a file named k whose  first  line
	    is	v,  chpst  removes  the environment variable k if it exists, and
	    then adds the environment variable k with the value v.  The  name  k
	    must  not  contain	=.  Spaces and tabs at the end of v are removed,
	    and nulls in v are changed to newlines.  If the file k is  empty  (0
	    bytes  long), chpst removes the environment variable k if it exists,
	    without adding a new variable.

     -/ root
	    chroot.  Change the root directory to root before starting prog.

     -n inc
	    nice.  Add inc to the nice(2) value before starting prog.  inc  must
	    be an integer, and may start with a minus or plus.

     -l lock
	    lock.   Open the file lock for writing, and obtain an exclusive lock
	    on it.  lock will be created if it	does  not  exist.   If	lock  is
	    locked by another process, wait until a new lock can be obtained.

     -L lock
	    The  same  as  -l, but fail immediately if lock is locked by another
	    process.

     -m bytes
	    limit memory.  Limit the data segment, stack segment, locked  physi-
	    cal pages, and total of all segment per process to bytes bytes each.

     -d bytes
	    limit  data  segment.   Limit  the data segment per process to bytes
	    bytes.

     -o n   limit open files.  Limit the number of  open  file	descriptors  per
	    process to n.

     -p n   limit processes.  Limit the number of processes per uid to n.

     -f bytes
	    limit output size.	Limit the output file size to bytes bytes.

     -c bytes
	    limit core size.  Limit the core file size to bytes bytes.

     -v     verbose.   Print  verbose messages to standard error.  This includes
	    warnings about limits unsupported by the system.

     -P     pgrphack.  Run prog in a new process group.

     -0     Close standard input before starting prog.

     -1     Close standard output before starting prog.

     -2     Close standard error before starting prog.

EXIT CODES
     chpst exits 100 when called with wrong options.  It prints an error message
     and exits 111 if it has trouble changing the process state.  Otherwise  its
     exit code is the same as that of prog.

EMULATION
     If  chpst	is called as envdir, envuidgid, pgrphack, setlock, setuidgid, or
     softlimit, it emulates the functionality of these programs from the daemon-
     tools package respectively.

SEE ALSO
     sv(8),   runsv(8),   setsid(2),   runit(8),   runit-init(8),   runsvdir(8),
     runsvchdir(8)

      http://smarden.org/runit/
      http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

AUTHOR
     Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>

									chpst(8)

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