ARCH-DAEMON (SHORT: DAEMON) README
===============================================================================
**(Arch-)Daemon** manipulates services on an Arch Linux system.
Lets say I like to start or stop daemons manually a lot, for example if I
never use `cups` or `httpd` or `mysqld`. Normally I'd have to then do this:
sudo /etc/rc.d/cups start
sudo /etc/rc.d/httpd start
sudo /etc/rc.d/mysqld start
It would be nice if we could simplify this, and indeed, this is the niche
that **Arch-Daemon** tries to fill. With Arch-Daemon we can then do this:
sudo daemon cups httpd mysqld
and all of those services will be started in exactly the same way that we
did it above.
Arch-Daemon is distributed under the ISC License (see `LICENSE`).
### Usage (taken from `daemon --help`)
Usage: daemon [options] [command] <daemons>
Available options:
--command cmd -c send the given command
--fail -f quit when a service does not exist
or when a service quits with an error
--list -l list started daemons and quit
--available -a list all available daemons and quit
--arguments -z list sendable commands to given daemons and quit
e.g. daemon -z cups httpd network
--help -h display this help and quit
--version -v display the version and quit
Any command may be given; if no command is given,
then `start` is assumed. Some commands have aliases:
s=start, t=stop, r=restart, l=reload
If the first argument does not exist in /etc/rc.d as
a daemon, then it is assumed to be a command.
If a aliased command exists as a daemon in /etc/rc.d,
then the command can be send with `-c command`.
### Examples
Start some daemons (these are all equivalent):
daemon httpd mysqld
daemon s httpd mysqld
daemon start httpd mysqld
Restart, stop, reload some daemons:
daemon r tomcat
daemon t cups
daemon l httpd
Send a specfic un-aliased command:
daemon setup vboxdrv
daemon -c setup vboxdrv
Get the available commands for some daemons:
daemon -z cups httpd
... for all the daemons:
daemon -z /etc/rc.d/*
Fail if anything goes wrong (daemon does not exist, or a daemon does not
support the command that is being sent):
daemon -f reload httpd mysql
### Tips
I like to make `sudo daemon` run without a password, in which case I can
also make an alias for myself:
alias daemon="sudo daemon"
Daemon will take the basename of a given daemon, which means that running:
sudo daemon ../../home/baduser/bad-script.sh
will run `/etc/rc.d/bad-script.sh`. So you cannot execute services outside
of `/etc/rc.d/`. This means you can save yourself even more typing by
letting you run `sudo daemon` without a password! ;)