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NAME
conmand - ConMan daemon
SYNOPSIS
conmand [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
conmand is the daemon responsible for managing consoles defined by its
configuration file as well as listening for connections from clients.
OPTIONS
-c file
Specify a configuration file, overriding the default location
[/etc/conman.conf].
-h Display a summary of the command-line options.
-k Send a SIGTERM to the conmand process associated with the speci-
fied 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, over-
riding both the default port [7890] and the port specified in
the configuration file.
-q Displays the PID of the conmand process associated with the
specified configuration if it appears active. Returns 0 if the
configuration appears active; otherwise, returns 1.
-r Send a SIGHUP to the conmand process associated with the speci-
fied configuration, thereby re-opening both that daemon’s log
file and individual console log files. Returns 0 if the daemon
was successfully 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 indi-
vidual console log files. Conversion specifiers within
filenames will be re-evaluated. This is useful for logro-
tate configurations.
SIGTERM Terminate the daemon.
SECURITY
The client/server communications are not yet encrypted.
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, con-
man.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
unable to identify the daemon process; consequently, the appropriate
signal may need to be sent to the daemon manually.
AUTHOR
Chris Dunlap <cdunlap@llnl.gov>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001-2006 by the Regents of the University of California.
Produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. UCRL-
CODE-2002-009.
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.
SEE ALSO
conman(1), conman.conf(5).
The ConMan FTP site:
ftp://ftp.llnl.gov/pub/linux/conman/
The ConMan Web page:
http://www.llnl.gov/linux/conman/
conman-0.1.9.2 2006-06-26 CONMAND(8)
