NAME

       msvc - control minit

SYNOPSIS

       msvc [ -[uodpchaitko] ] [ -P pid ] service [...]

DESCRIPTION

       msvc is the management interface to minit.  service is the service directory name relative to /etc/minit.
       Starting with minit 0.9 you can also include /etc/minit/ in the service name.

OPTIONS

       If  no  option is given, msvc will just print a small diagnostic message to stdout, saying if the service
       is up, down or finished, which PID it has if it is up, and for how long it has been in this state.

       -u   Up.  If the service is not running, start it.  If the service stops, restart it.

       -o   Once.  If the service is not running, start it.  If the service stops, do not restart it.

       -d   Down.  If the service is running, send it a TERM signal and then a CONT signal.  After it stops,  do
            not restart it.

       -p   Pause.  Send the service a STOP signal.

       -c   Continue.  Send the service a CONT signal.

       -h   Hangup.  Send the service a HUP signal.

       -a   Alarm.  Send the service an ALRM signal.

       -i   Interrupt.  Send the service an INT signal.

       -t   Terminate.  Send the service a TERM signal.

       -k   Terminate.  Send the service a KILL signal.

       -P pid
            Set  PID.   Tell  minit the PID of the service is really pid.  This is useful for services that fork
            themselves  in  the  background  but  put   their   real   PID   in   a   file,   typically   called
            /var/run/service.pid.  Used by pidfilehack.

       -D service
            Print  dependencies.   This  will  print all the names of all the services that were started because
            this services depended on them.  Please note that this is not  done  recursively  (i.e.  if  default
            depends  on qmail and qmail depends on log, this will print qmail, not qmail/log.  But msvc -D qmail
            will print qmail/log).

       -H   Print history.  This will print the names of the ten least  recently  spawned  processes.   This  is
            useful if you see a process looping (initialization fails and minit is restarting it all the time).

RETURN CODES

       Generally,  msvc  return  zero  if  everything  is  OK  or  1  on  error (could not open /lib/minit/in or
       /lib/minit/out or there is no process with the given name).  In diagnostic mode, it will exit  0  if  the
       service is up, 2 if it is down or 3 if it is finished.

SEE ALSO

       pidfilehack(8), svc(8)

                                                                                                         msvc(8)