CONMAND(8) LLNL CONMAND(8)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 ALSOconman(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)
