CONMAND(8)						    ConMan: The Console Manager 						CONMAND(8)

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 configu-
	      ration 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)