fontd(8) BSD System Manager's Manual fontd(8)NAME
fontd -- Mac OS X system font registration manager
SYNOPSIS
fontd
DESCRIPTION
fontd is a system daemon which makes fonts available to the system.
There are no configuration options to fontd. Users should not run fontd manually.
SEE ALSO atsutil(8)HISTORY
The fontd daemon first appeared in MacOS X 10.6 replacing the ATSServer daemon.
Mac OS June 1, 2019 Mac OS
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pcastctl(8) BSD System Manager's Manual pcastctl(8)NAME
pcastctl -- Podcast Producer daemons control interface
SYNOPSIS
pcastctl status target on|off|start|stop|restart
OPTIONS
The available options are as follows:
status print status of running daemons
target affect agent or server daemon
start|stop|restart explicitly start/stop/restart daemon. Note that 'restart' will kill all instances of a given daemon, as will
'stop' if none is specified in the pid file.
RETURN VALUES
0 Completed succesfully.
1 Action failed
10 Not run as root.
50 Target not recognized: use 'a', or 's'.
51 Action not recognized: use start|stop|restart
52 Executables not found; may need to reinstall Podcast Producer.
53 Process directory not found; may need to reinstall Mac OS X.
54 Timeout waiting for action to complete.
55 Launchd manipulation failure.
FILES
/usr/libexec/podcastproducer/pcastagentd
Podcast Producer agent daemon
/usr/share/podcastproducer/pcastserverd
Podcast Producer server daemon
/var/run/pcastagentd.pid
Podcast Producer agent process ID
/var/run/pcastserverd.pid
Podcast Producer server process ID
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.pcastagentd.plist
Launchd agent daemon control file
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.pcastserverd.plist
Launchd server daemon control file
EXAMPLES
status of Podcast Producer agent daemon
$ pcastctl agent status
edit launchd configuration to launch server on system startup
$ pcastctl server on
DIAGNOSTICS
Warning: Warning: ## copies of (pcastagentd|pcastserverd) already running
Trying to launch another daemon when one or more already running; will usually succeed, but may cause unpredictable behavior.
See also RETURN VALUES, above.
ERRORS
Error: failed to launch (executable)
Tried to start/restart a give daemon, but failed.
Error: process 'executable' not currently running
Tried to kill a process which did not exist.
SEE ALSO pcast(1)launchd(8)HISTORY
This program was first introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard". It was inspired by xgridctl(8).
BUGS pcastctl(8) uses kill -TERM to allow the daemons a chance to die gracefully; there is currently no way to force a kill -KILL.
Bug reports can be sent to bugreport.apple.com
Feedback can be sent to podcastproducer@apple.com
Mac OS September 29, 2004 Mac OS