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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].

       -F     Run the daemon in the foreground.

       -h     Display a summary of the command-line options.

       -k     Send a SIGTERM to the conmand process associated with the specified 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, overriding 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 specified 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  individual  console  log  files.
                   Conversion  specifiers  within  filenames will be re-evaluated.  This is useful for logrotate
                   configurations.

       SIGTERM     Terminate the daemon.


SECURITY
       Connections to the server are not authenticated, and communications between client  and  server  are  not
       encrypted.  When time allows, this will be addressed in a future release.  Until then, the recommendation
       is  to  bind  the  server's  listen socket to the loopback address (by specifying "server loopback=on" in
       conman.conf) and restrict access to the server host.


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.,
       conman.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.

       The number of consoles that can be simultaneously managed is  limited  by  the  maximum  number  of  file
       descriptors  a process can have open.  The daemon sets its "nofile" soft limit to the maximum/hard limit.
       If you are encountering "too many open files" errors, you may need to increase the "nofile" hard limit.


AUTHOR
       Chris Dunlap <cdunlap@llnl.gov>


COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2007-2011 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
       Copyright (C) 2001-2007 The Regents of the University of California.

       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, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
       option) any later version.


SEE ALSO
       conman(1), conman.conf(5).

       http://conman.googlecode.com/

conman-0.2.7                                       2011-04-21                                         CONMAND(8)