NAME
bin/wppdc.pl - control wppd.pl WHOIS++ server
SYNOPSIS
bin/wppdc.pl [coldstart|status|restart|start|stop|safetyfirst]DESCRIPTION
This program lets you drive your LUT WHOIS++ server by remote control, making it possible to have it automatically restarted, shutdown and so on from things like cron jobs and WWW CGI programs.
OPTIONS
There is only one option, which is the operation to be performed. This may be one of the following:
- coldstart
-
Start from scratch, ignoring any wppd.pid status files which might be present in the ROADS guts directory.
- status
-
Dump out some status information about any LUT WHOIS++ servers which happen to be running
- restart
-
Restart any WHOIS++ servers which happen to be running. This consists of a stop followed by a start.
- start
-
Start the LUT WHOIS++ server.
- stop
-
Stop any LUT WHOIS++ servers which happen to be running.
- safetyfirst
-
Start a new WHOIS++ server if there don't appear to be any running already.
BUGS/CAVEATS
This program uses the ps command to find out what processes are running. The options this program takes and the results it produces typically vary quite a bit between different versions of Unix. If you find that this program fails on your system, please get in touch so that we can fix it!
SEE ALSO
"wppd.pl" in bin, "wppdc.pl" in admin-cgi
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1988, Martin Hamilton <martinh@gnu.org> and Jon Knight <jon@net.lut.ac.uk>. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
It was developed by the Department of Computer Studies at Loughborough University of Technology, as part of the ROADS project. ROADS is funded under the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), the European Commission Telematics for Research Programme, and the TERENA development programme.
AUTHOR
Martin Hamilton <martinh@gnu.org>