NAME¶

blogctl - Control the boot loggind daemon blogd

SYNOPSIS¶

/sbin/blogctl [ping|quit|root=<path>|ready|close]

DESCRIPTION¶

blogctl may be used to check if a blogd daemon is active as well as to send comands to such a daemon.

COMANDS¶

The following commands are known:

ping

Send a simply ping request if blogd daemon is up and running.

quit

Cause the blogd daemon to finish its logging and then gracefully quits.

root=<path>

This command take a path as further value of the new root file system which is mounted e.g. in initrd.

ready

Tells the blogd daemon that the file systems had becomes writable.

close

Cause the blogd daemon to finish its logging only to allow systemd(8) to unmount the file systems finally.

deactivate

This let the daemon disconnect from system console.

reactivate

Whereas this cause the daemon reconnect to system console.

final

Evoke the daemon to rename an already open log file /var/log/boot.log to the new name /var/log/boot.old as well as mask it own program name in the process table with the @ character.

SEE ALSO¶

blogd(8), systemd(1),

COPYRIGHT¶

2015 Werner Fink, 2015 SuSE Linux GmbH.

AUTHOR¶

Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>