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xrctl

XRCTL(1)							     Man Page								  XRCTL(1)

NAME

       xrctl - Crossroads control-script

SYNOPSIS

       xrctl [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page briefly documents xrctl, the Crossroads control-script. Instead of starting XR by hand, consider using xrctl.

       Edit  /etc/xrctl.xml,  which  is  the  configuration file, and configure your service(s), all their options, and back ends. Then type xrctl
       start to start all your services, or xrctl stop to stop them.

OPTIONS

       list [SERVICE]		- show configuration of a service, or of all
       start [SERVICE]		- start a service, or all configured services
       stop [SERVICE]		- stop a service, or all configured services
       kill [SERVICE]		- brutal stop, interrupts connections
       force [SERVICE]		- start a service (or all) if not running
       stopstart [SERVICE]	- stop and start a service, or all
       killstart [SERVICE]	- kill and start a service, or all
       status [SERVICE] 	- show running status of a service, or of all
       rotate [SERVICE] 	- rotate logs of a service or of all
       generateconfig [SERVICE] - queries running XR's for the configuration
				  and shows it in the format of /etc/xrctl.xml

SEE ALSO

       xr(1), xrctl.xml(5)

AUTHOR

       xrctl was written by Karel Kubat <karel@kubat.nl>. Web page: http://crossroads.e-tunity.com

       This man page was written by Frederik Dannemare <frederik@dannemare.net> and updated by Karel Kubat <karel@kubat.nl>.

Crossroads							     2008,2009								  XRCTL(1)

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