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FSCADM(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual FSCADM(1)

fscadm —
Alter service monitoring status

fscadm close

fscadm [-w] disable service

fscadm [-w] enable service pidfile

fscadm shutdown

fscadm status

The FreeBSD services control administration utility, fscadm enables or disables monitoring for a specified service. It may also be used to print a list of services currently being monitored or cleanly shutdown the services control daemon, fscd(8).

When invoked, the fscadm utility will connect with the fscd(8) daemon and carry out the requested actions. Changes in service states will not be propagated to the rc.conf(5) file, these alterations must be handled manually. In addition, fscadm only supports services which may be monitored through a pidfile and have a corresponding rc(8) control script.

When the -w option is specified fscadm will attempt to write the enable or disable changes to disk. The following options are available:

Close the fscd(8) daemon but leave its service configuration file, /var/db/fsc/services.db, in place. This is preferred when services will persist over system reboots.
Disable monitoring for the requested service. The service will not be stopped prior to removal. If the requested service is unknown, this command will be ignored.
Enable service monitoring for the requested service. The first argument must be the rc(8) control script name and the second is an absolute path to the pidfile. A service must have an enable entry in rc.conf(5) or it will not be added. If the service is currently not running, it will be started using the provided information. If the service cannot start, fscadm will exit without attempting to contact the fscd(8) daemon.
Request a clean shutdown of fscd(8) including removal of the known services database and socket file.
Print the fscd(8) process id and a list of all services being monitored. Services that cannot be started through fscd(8) will be removed from the list during failure.

In both the enable and disable cases, fscd will update the database file with the new information.

Exit status is 0 on success or 1 if the command has failed to start a service.

rc.conf(5), fscd(8), rc(8), rcorder(8), service(8)

The fscadm utility is available as part of the ports collection or online via github.

The fsc utilities and documentation were written by Tom Rhodes ⟨trhodes@FreeBSD.org⟩.
July 24, 2010 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE
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