svscanboot

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NAME

svscanboot - starts svscan(8) in the SERVICE directory, with output and error messages logged through readproctitle(8).

svscanboot is available in daemontools 0.75 and above.  

SYNOPSIS

svscanboot  

DESCRIPTION

svscanboot runs the pipeline

svscan SERVICE 2>&1 | readproctitle service errors: .....

with 400 dots. The last 400 bytes of error messages from svscan(8) will be visible to ps(1) through readproctitle(8).

svscanboot sets $PATH to


 HOME:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:
 /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin

(all in one line, no space)

and clears all other environment variables. Program writers are encouraged to use globally allocated names in HOME.  

ALTERNATE USE

It is possible to setup serveral service directories with different prameters in the script svscanboot.sh . By manually editing these paths and invoking svscanboot whith different names at startup.  

SEE ALSO

supervise(8), svc(8), svok(8), svstat(8), svscan(8), readproctitle(8), fghack(8), pgrphack(8), multilog(8), tai64n(8), tai64nfrac(8), tai64nlocal(8), setuidgid(8), envuidgid(8), envdir(8), softlimit(8), setlock(8), ps(1)  

REFERENCES

https://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html, https://cr.yp.to/slashcommand.html


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
ALTERNATE USE
SEE ALSO
REFERENCES

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