NAME

cdist-type__process - Start or stop process

DESCRIPTION

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

OPTIONAL PARAMETERS

state: Either "present" or "absent", defaults to "present"
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.

MESSAGES

started: The process was started.
stopped: The process was stopped.

EXAMPLES

# Start if not running
__process /usr/sbin/syslog-ng --state present
# Start if not running with a different binary
__process /usr/sbin/nginx --state present --start "/etc/rc.d/nginx start"
# Stop the process using kill (the type default) - DO NOT USE THIS
__process /usr/sbin/sshd --state absent
# Stop the process using /etc/rc.d/sshd stop - THIS ONE NOT AS WELL
__process /usr/sbin/sshd --state absent --stop "/etc/rc.d/sshd stop"
# Ensure cups is running, which runs with -C ...:
__process cups --start "/etc/rc.d/cups start" --state present \
   --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 present --start "/etc/init.d/statd start" \
    --name "rpc.statd.*"

AUTHORS

Nico Schottelius <nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org>
Thomas Eckert <tom--@--it-eckert.de>

COPYING

Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Nico Schottelius. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

COPYRIGHT

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