cdist-type__process(7)

Nico Schottelius

<nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org>

Table of Contents

1. NAME
2. DESCRIPTION
3. REQUIRED PARAMETERS
4. OPTIONAL PARAMETERS
5. EXAMPLES
6. SEE ALSO
7. COPYING

1. NAME

cdist-type__process - Start or stop process

2. DESCRIPTION

This cdist type allows you to define the state of a process.

3. REQUIRED PARAMETERS

state: State of the process: Either stopped or running.

4. OPTIONAL PARAMETERS

name

Process name to match on when using pgrep -f -x.

This is useful, if the name starts with a "/",
because the leading slash is stripped away from
the object id by cdist.

stop

Executable to use for stopping the process.

start

Executable to use for starting the process.

5. EXAMPLES

# Start if not running
__process /usr/sbin/syslog-ng --state running

# Start if not running with a different binary
__process /usr/sbin/nginx --state running --start "/etc/rc.d/nginx start"

# Stop the process using kill (the type default) - DO NOT USE THIS
__process /usr/sbin/sshd --state stopped

# Stop the process using /etc/rc.d/sshd stop - THIS ONE NOT AS WELL
__process /usr/sbin/sshd --state stopped --stop "/etc/rc.d/sshd stop"

# Ensure cups is running, which runs with -C ...:
__process cups --start "/etc/rc.d/cups start" --state running \
   --name "/usr/sbin/cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf"

# Ensure rpc.statd is running (which usually runs with -L) using a regexp
__process rpcstatd --state running --start "/etc/init.d/statd start" \
    --name "rpc.statd.*"

6. SEE ALSO

cdist-type(7)