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authorGerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>2003-10-29 12:49:52 +0000
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@@ -37,41 +37,41 @@ and in a human-readable format in <i>service</i>/supervise/stat, <i>service</i>/
 <h2><a name='sect3'>Control</a></h2>
 The named pipes
 <i>service</i>/supervise/control, and (optionally) <i>service</i>/log/supervise/control
-are provided to give commands to <b>runsv</b>. You can use <i><b>svc</b>(8)</i> to control the
-service or just write one of the following characters to the named pipe:
-
+are provided to give commands to <b>runsv</b>. You can use <i><b>runsvctrl</b>(8)</i> to control
+the service or just write one of the following characters to the named
+pipe: 
 <dl>
 
 <dt><b>u</b> </dt>
-<dd>Up. If the service is not running, start it. If the service stops, restart
-it. </dd>
+<dd>Up. If the service is not running, start it. If the service stops,
+restart it. </dd>
 
 <dt><b>d</b> </dt>
-<dd>Down. If the service is running, send it a TERM signal. If ./run exits,
-start ./finish if it exists. After it stops, do not restart service. </dd>
+<dd>Down. If the service is running, send it a TERM signal. If ./run
+exits, start ./finish if it exists. After it stops, do not restart service.
+</dd>
 
 <dt><b>o</b> </dt>
-<dd>Once.
-If the service is not running, start it. Do not restart it if it stops. </dd>
+<dd>Once. If the service is not running, start it. Do not restart it if it
+stops. </dd>
 
-<dt><b>p</b>
-</dt>
+<dt><b>p</b> </dt>
 <dd>Pause. If the service is running, send it a STOP signal. </dd>
 
 <dt><b>c</b> </dt>
-<dd>Continue. If the
-service is running, send it a CONT signal. </dd>
+<dd>Continue.
+If the service is running, send it a CONT signal. </dd>
 
 <dt><b>h</b> </dt>
-<dd>Hangup. If the service is running,
-send it a HUP signal. </dd>
+<dd>Hangup. If the service
+is running, send it a HUP signal. </dd>
 
 <dt><b>a</b> </dt>
-<dd>Alarm. If the service is running, send it a ALRM
-signal. </dd>
+<dd>Alarm. If the service is running, send
+it a ALRM signal. </dd>
 
 <dt><b>i</b> </dt>
-<dd>Interrupt. If the service is running, send it a INT signal.
+<dd>Interrupt. If the service is running, send it a INT signal. </dd>
 
 <dt><b>1</b> </dt>
 <dd>User-defined 1. If the service is running, send it a USR1 signal. </dd>
@@ -80,26 +80,26 @@ signal. </dd>
 <dd>User-defined 2. If the service is running, send it a USR2 signal. </dd>
 
 <dt><b>t</b> </dt>
-<dd>Terminate. If the service is
-running, send it a TERM signal. </dd>
+<dd>Terminate. If the service
+is running, send it a TERM signal. </dd>
 
 <dt><b>k</b> </dt>
-<dd>Kill. If the service is running, send it
-a KILL signal. </dd>
+<dd>Kill. If the service is running, send
+it a KILL signal. </dd>
 
 <dt><b>x or <b>e</b> </b></dt>
-<dd>Exit. If the service is running, send it a TERM signal.
-Do not restart the service. If the service is down, and no log service exists,
-<b>runsv</b> exits. If the service is down and a log service exists, <b>runsv</b> closes
-the standard input of the log service, and waits for it to terminate. If
-the log service is down, <b>runsv</b> exits. This command is ignored if it is given
-to <i>service</i>/log/supervise/control. </dd>
+<dd>Exit. If the service is running, send it a TERM
+signal. Do not restart the service. If the service is down, and no log service
+exists, <b>runsv</b> exits. If the service is down and a log service exists, <b>runsv</b>
+closes the standard input of the log service, and waits for it to terminate.
+If the log service is down, <b>runsv</b> exits. This command is ignored if it is
+given to <i>service</i>/log/supervise/control. </dd>
 </dl>
 <p>
-For example, to send a TERM signal to
-/service/socklog-unix, either do   # svc -t /service/socklog-unix<br>
+Example: to send a TERM signal to
+the socklog-unix service, either do   # runsvctrl term /var/service/socklog-unix<br>
   or<br>
-   # echo -n t &gt;/service/socklog-unix/supervise/control<br>
+   # echo -n t &gt;/var/service/socklog-unix/supervise/control<br>
  <p>
 If <i><b>echo</b>(1)</i> on your systems does not provide the -n option, leave it out,
 <b>runsv</b> ignores unknown characters written to the control pipe. <i><b>echo</b>(1)</i> usually
@@ -115,11 +115,9 @@ if another <b>runsv</b> is running in <i>service</i>. <p>
 exit. 
 <h2><a name='sect6'>See Also</a></h2>
 <i>runsvctrl(8)</i>, <i>runsvstat(8)</i>, <i>runit(8)</i>, <i>runit-init(8)</i>, <i>runsvdir(8)</i>,
-<i>runsvchdir(8)</i>, <i>svlogd(8)</i>, <i>svwaitdown(8)</i>, <i>svwaitup(8)</i>, <i>svc(8)</i>, <i>supervise(8)</i>
-<p>
- <i>http://smarden.org/runit/</i><br>
-  <i>http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html</i><br>
- 
+<i>runsvchdir(8)</i>, <i>svlogd(8)</i>, <i>svwaitdown(8)</i>, <i>svwaitup(8)</i>, <p>
+<i>http://smarden.org/runit/</i>
+
 <h2><a name='sect7'>Author</a></h2>
 Gerrit Pape &lt;pape@smarden.org&gt; <p>