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Reported-by: "P.R.Dinesh" <pr.dinesh@gmail.com> Reported-at: http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-December/019567.html Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> Acked-by: Gurucharan Shetty <guru@ovn.org>
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72 lines
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The following options are valid on POSIX based platforms.
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.TP
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\fB\-\-pidfile\fR[\fB=\fIpidfile\fR]
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Causes a file (by default, \fB\*(PN.pid\fR) to be created indicating
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the PID of the running process. If the \fIpidfile\fR argument is not
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specified, or
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if it does not begin with \fB/\fR, then it is created in
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\fB@RUNDIR@\fR.
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.IP
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If \fB\-\-pidfile\fR is not specified, no pidfile is created.
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.TP
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\fB\-\-overwrite\-pidfile\fR
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By default, when \fB\-\-pidfile\fR is specified and the specified pidfile
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already exists and is locked by a running process, \fB\*(PN\fR refuses
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to start. Specify \fB\-\-overwrite\-pidfile\fR to cause it to instead
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overwrite the pidfile.
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.IP
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When \fB\-\-pidfile\fR is not specified, this option has no effect.
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.
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.IP \fB\-\-detach\fR
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Runs \fB\*(PN\fR as a background process. The process forks, and in
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the child it starts a new session, closes the standard file
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descriptors (which has the side effect of disabling logging to the
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console), and changes its current directory to the root (unless
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\fB\-\-no\-chdir\fR is specified). After the child completes its
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initialization, the parent exits. \*(DD
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.
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.TP
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\fB\-\-monitor\fR
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Creates an additional process to monitor the \fB\*(PN\fR daemon. If
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the daemon dies due to a signal that indicates a programming error
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(\fBSIGABRT\fR, \fBSIGALRM\fR, \fBSIGBUS\fR, \fBSIGFPE\fR,
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\fBSIGILL\fR, \fBSIGPIPE\fR, \fBSIGSEGV\fR, \fBSIGXCPU\fR, or
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\fBSIGXFSZ\fR) then the monitor process starts a new copy of it. If
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the daemon dies or exits for another reason, the monitor process exits.
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.IP
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This option is normally used with \fB\-\-detach\fR, but it also
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functions without it.
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.TP
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\fB\-\-no\-chdir\fR
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By default, when \fB\-\-detach\fR is specified, \fB\*(PN\fR
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changes its current working directory to the root directory after it
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detaches. Otherwise, invoking \fB\*(PN\fR from a carelessly chosen
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directory would prevent the administrator from unmounting the file
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system that holds that directory.
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.IP
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Specifying \fB\-\-no\-chdir\fR suppresses this behavior, preventing
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\fB\*(PN\fR from changing its current working directory. This may be
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useful for collecting core files, since it is common behavior to write
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core dumps into the current working directory and the root directory
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is not a good directory to use.
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.IP
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This option has no effect when \fB\-\-detach\fR is not specified.
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.TP
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\fB\-\-user\fR
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Causes \fB\*(PN\fR to run as a different user specified in "user:group", thus
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dropping most of the root privileges. Short forms "user" and ":group" are also
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allowed, with current user or group are assumed respectively. Only daemons
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started by the root user accepts this argument.
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.IP
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On Linux, daemons will be granted CAP_IPC_LOCK and CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICES
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before dropping root privileges. Daemons interact with datapath,
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such as ovs-vswitchd, will be granted two additional capabilities, namely
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CAP_NET_ADMIN and CAP_NET_RAW. The capability change will apply even if
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new user is "root".
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.IP
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On Windows, this option is not currently supported. For security reasons,
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specifying this option will cause the daemon process not to start.
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