svc - Manage daemontools services.

New in version 1.9.

Synopsis

  • Controls daemontools services on remote hosts using the svc utility.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
downed
 no
  • yes
  • no
Should a 'down' file exist or not, if it exists it disables auto startup. defaults to no. Downed does not imply stopped.
enabled
 no
  • yes
  • no
Wheater the service is enabled or not, if disabled it also implies stopped. Make note that a service can be enabled and downed (no auto restart).
name
 yes
Name of the service to manage.
service_dir
 no /service
directory svscan watches for services
service_src
 no
directory where services are defined, the source of symlinks to service_dir.
state
 no
  • started
  • stopped
  • restarted
  • reloaded
  • once
  • killed
Started/stopped are idempotent actions that will not run commands unless necessary. restarted will always bounce the svc (svc -t) and killed will always bounce the svc (svc -k). reloaded will send a sigusr1 (svc -1). once will run a normally downed svc once (svc -o), not really an idempotent operation.

Examples

# Example action to start svc dnscache, if not running
 - svc:
    name: dnscache
    state: started

# Example action to stop svc dnscache, if running
 - svc:
    name: dnscache
    state: stopped

# Example action to kill svc dnscache, in all cases
 - svc:
    name: dnscache
    state: killed

# Example action to restart svc dnscache, in all cases
 - svc:
    name: dnscache
    state: restarted

# Example action to reload svc dnscache, in all cases
 - svc:
    name: dnscache
    state: reloaded

# Example using alt svc directory location
 - svc:
    name: dnscache
    state: reloaded
    service_dir: /var/service

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

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