NAME¶

gotctl — control the Game of Trees Daemon

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

gotctl controls the gotd(8) daemon.

The options for gotctl are as follows:

-h

Display usage information and exit immediately.

-f path

Set the path to the unix socket which gotd(8) is listening on. If not specified, the default path /var/run/gotd.sock will be used.

-V, --version

Display program version and exit immediately.

The commands for gotctl are as follows:

info

Display information about a running gotd(8) instance. This operation requires root privileges.

stop

Stop a running gotd(8) instance. This operation requires root privileges.

reload [-c config-file] [-n] [-s secrets]

Reload a running gotd(8) instance. gotd(8) will relaunch with an updated configuration read from the provided configuration files. The previous instance of gotd(8) will continue to serve existing client connections and then exit.

This operation requires root privileges.

The options for gotctl reload are as follows:

-f config-file

Set the path to the configuration file. If not specified, the file /etc/gotd.conf will be used.

-n

Only check the configuration files for validity.

-s secrets

Set the path to the secrets file. If not specified, the file /etc/gotd-secrets.conf will be used if it exists.

SEE ALSO¶

got(1), gotd(8)

AUTHORS¶

Stefan Sperling <stsp@openbsd.org>