svscanboot (8)

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NAME

svscanboot - starts svscan(8) in the /service directory, with output and error messages logged through readproctitle(8).

svscanboot is available in daemontools 0.75 and above.

SYNOPSIS

svscanboot

DESCRIPTION

svscanboot runs the pipeline

svscan /service 2>&1 | readproctitle service errors: .....

with 400 dots. The last 400 bytes of error messages from svscan(8) will be visible to ps(1) through readproctitle(8).

svscanboot sets $PATH to

 /command:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:
 /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin

(all in one line, no space)

and clears all other environment variables. Program writers are encouraged to use globally allocated names in /command.

SEE ALSO

supervise(8), svc(8), svok(8), svstat(8), svscan(8), readproctitle(8), fghack(8), pgrphack(8), multilog(8), tai64n(8), tai64nlocal(8), setuidgid(8), envuidgid(8), envdir(8), softlimit(8), setlock(8), ps(1)

 http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
 http://cr.yp.to/slashcommand.html

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