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CONMAND(8)		   ConMan: The Console Manager		      CONMAND(8)

NAME
     conmand - ConMan daemon

SYNOPSIS
     conmand [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION
     conmand is the daemon responsible for managing consoles defined by its con-
     figuration file as well as listening for connections from clients.

OPTIONS
     -c file
	    Specify  a	configuration  file,  overriding  the  default	location
	    [/usr/local/etc/conman.conf].

     -F     Run the daemon in the foreground.

     -h     Display a summary of the command-line options.

     -k     Send a SIGTERM to the conmand process associated with the  specified
	    configuration,  thereby killing the daemon.  Returns 0 if the daemon
	    was successfully signaled; otherwise, returns 1.

     -L     Display license information.

     -p port
	    Specify the port on which conmand will listen for clients,	overrid-
	    ing  both the default port [7890] and the port specified in the con-
	    figuration file.

     -P file
	    Specify the PID file for storing the daemon's  PID,  overriding  the
	    "server pidfile" directive in the configuration file.

     -q     Displays  the  PID of the conmand process associated with the speci-
	    fied configuration if it appears active.  Returns 0 if the	configu-
	    ration appears active; otherwise, returns 1.

     -r     Send  a  SIGHUP to the conmand process associated with the specified
	    configuration, thereby re-opening both that daemon's  log  file  and
	    individual	console log files.  Returns 0 if the daemon was success-
	    fully signaled; otherwise, returns 1.

     -v     Enable verbose mode.

     -V     Display version information.

     -z     Truncate both the daemon's log file and individual console log files
	    at start-up.

SIGNALS
     SIGHUP	 Close and re-open both the daemon's log file and the individual
		 console log files.  Conversion specifiers within filenames will
		 be re-evaluated.  This is useful for logrotate configurations.

     SIGTERM	 Terminate the daemon.

SECURITY
     Connections to the server are not authenticated, and communications between
     client and server are not encrypted.  Until this is addressed in  a  future
     release,  the  recommendation  is to bind the server's listen socket to the
     loopback address (by specifying "server loopback=on"  in  conman.conf)  and
     restrict access to the server host.

NOTES
     Log  messages are sent to standard-error until after the configuration file
     has been read, at which time future messages are  discarded  unless  either
     the logfile or syslog keyword has been specified (cf., conman.conf(5)).

     If  the  configuration  file  is modified while the daemon is running and a
     pidfile was not originally specified, the '-k' and '-r' options may be  un-
     able  to  identify the daemon process; consequently, the appropriate signal
     may need to be sent to the daemon manually.

     The number of consoles that can be simultaneously managed is limited by the
     maximum number of file descriptors a process can  have  open.   The  daemon
     sets its "nofile" soft limit to the maximum/hard limit.  If you are encoun-
     tering  "too many open files" errors, you may need to increase the "nofile"
     hard limit.

AUTHOR
     Chris Dunlap <cdunlap@llnl.gov>

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (C) 2007-2018 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
     Copyright (C) 2001-2007 The Regents of the University of California.

LICENSE
     ConMan is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
     terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the  Free	Software
     Foundation,  either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
     version.

SEE ALSO
     conman(1), conman.conf(5).

     https://dun.github.io/conman/

conman-0.3.0			   2018-09-15			      CONMAND(8)

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