servicecontrol usage

servicecontrol is a script intended to perform a number of functions

• allow one program to turn on/off any other program
• log output of that program
• restart program if it crashes (for whatever reason)
• monitor that program's resource utilisation and reboot if necessary

Syntax

The syntax is:

servicecontrol <paramters> "<program with its own parameters>"

As usual you can get help by typing:

serviceconrol --help

Which will produce the built-in help on the available syntax:

usage: servicecontrol.py [-h] [--start] [--addr ADDR] [--port PORT]
                         [--no-echo] [--autorestart] [--cpurestart CPURESTART]
                         [--log LOG] [-i]
                         cmd

positional arguments:
  cmd                   The command to parse

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --start               Immediately start software (do not wait for start())
  --addr ADDR           xmlrpc address, default=localhost
  --port PORT           xmlrpc port, default=9001
  --no-echo             Do not display output to stdout
  --autorestart         Restart on crash
  --cpurestart CPURESTART
                        Set CPU threshold to automatically restart service at
  --log LOG             Filename to log to (default is None - stdout only)
  -i, --interact