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svscanboot

svscanboot(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     svscanboot(8)

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

																     svscanboot(8)

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