sv(8)                   OpenBSD System Manager's Manual                  sv(8)



NAME
       sv - control and manage services monitored by runsv(8)

SYNOPSIS
       sv [-v] [-w sec] command services

       /etc/init.d/service [-w sec] command

DESCRIPTION
       The sv program reports the current status and controls the state of
       services monitored by the runsv(8) supervisor.

       services consists of one or more arguments, each argument naming a
       directory service used by runsv(8).  If service doesn't start with a
       dot or slash, it is searched in the default services directory
       /var/service/, otherwise relative to the current directory.

       command is one of up, down, status, once, pause, cont, hup, alarm,
       interrupt, 1, 2, term, kill, or exit, or start, stop, restart,
       shutdown, force-stop, force-reload, force-restart, force-shutdown.

       The sv program can be sym-linked to /etc/init.d/ to provide an LSB init
       script interface.  The service to be controlled then is specified by
       the base name of the ``init script''.

COMMANDS
       status Report the current status of the service, and the appendant log
              service if available, to standard output.

       up     If the service is not running, start it.  If the service stops,
              restart it.

       down   If the service is running, send it the TERM signal, and the CONT
              signal.  If ./run exits, start ./finish if it exists.  After it
              stops, do not restart service.

       once   If the service is not running, start it.  Do not restart it if
              it stops.

       pause cont hup alarm interrupt quit 1 2 term kill
              If the service is running, send it the STOP, CONT, HUP, ALRM,
              INT, QUIT, USR1, USR2, TERM, or KILL signal respectively.

       exit   If the service is running, send it the TERM signal, and the CONT
              signal.  Do not restart the service.  If the service is down,
              and no log service exists, runsv(8) exits.  If the service is
              down and a log service exists, send the TERM signal to the log
              service.  If the log service is down, runsv(8) exits.  This
              command is ignored if it is given to an appendant log service.

       sv actually looks only at the first character of these commands.

   Commands compatible to LSB init script actions
       status Same as status.

       start  Same as up, but wait up to 7 seconds for the command to take
              effect.  Then report the status or timeout.  If the script
              ./check exists in the service directory, sv runs this script to
              check whether the service is up and available; it's considered
              to be available if ./check exits with 0.

       stop   Same as down, but wait up to 7 seconds for the service to become
              down.  Then report the status or timeout.

       restart
              Send the commands term, cont, and up to the service, and wait up
              to 7 seconds for the service to restart.  Then report the status
              or timeout.  If the script ./check exists in the service
              directory, sv runs this script to check whether the service is
              up and available again; it's considered to be available if
              ./check exits with 0.

       shutdown
              Same as exit, but wait up to 7 seconds for the runsv(8) process
              to terminate.  Then report the status or timeout.

       force-stop
              Same as down, but wait up to 7 seconds for the service to become
              down.  Then report the status, and on timeout send the service
              the kill command.

       force-reload
              Send the service the term and cont commands, and wait up to 7
              seconds for the service to restart.  Then report the status, and
              on timeout send the service the kill command.

       force-restart
              Send the service the term, cont and up commands, and wait up to
              7 seconds for the service to restart.  Then report the status,
              and on timeout send the service the kill command.  If the script
              ./check exists in the service directory, sv runs this script to
              check whether the service is up and available again; it's
              considered to be available if ./check exits with 0.

       force-shutdown
              Same as exit, but wait up to 7 seconds for the runsv(8) process
              to terminate.  Then report the status, and on timeout send the
              service the kill command.

   Additional Commands
       check  Check for the service to be in the state that's been requested.
              Wait up to 7 seconds for the service to reach the requested
              state, then report the status or timeout.  If the requested
              state of the service is up, and the script ./check exists in the
              service directory, sv runs this script to check whether the
              service is up and running; it's considered to be up if ./check
              exits with 0.

OPTIONS
       -v     If the command is up, down, term, once, cont, or exit, then wait
              up to 7 seconds for the command to take effect.  Then report the
              status or timeout.

       -w sec Override the default timeout of 7 seconds with sec seconds.
              This option implies -v.

ENVIRONMENT
       SVDIR  The environment variable $SVDIR overrides the default services
              directory /var/service/.

       SVWAIT The environment variable $SVWAIT overrides the default 7 seconds
              to wait for a command to take effect.  It is overridden by the
              -w option.

EXIT CODES
       sv exits 0, if the command was successfully sent to all services, and,
       if it was told to wait, the command has taken effect to all services.

       For each service that caused an error (e.g. the directory is not
       controlled by a runsv(8) process, or sv timed out while waiting), sv
       increases the exit code by one and exits non zero.  The maximum is 99.
       sv exits 100 on error.

       If sv is called with a base name other than sv, it exits 1 on timeout
       or trouble sending the command.  If the command is status, it exits 3
       if the service is down, and 4 if the status is unknown.  It exits 2 on
       wrong usage, and 151 on error.

SEE ALSO
       runsv(8), chpst(8), svlogd(8), runsvdir(8), runsvchdir(8), runit(8),
       runit-init(8)

       http://smarden.org/runit/

AUTHOR
       Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>



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