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The s6-svdt-clear program

s6-svdt-clear clears the recorded death tally of a service.

Interface

     s6-svdt-clear servicedir

s6-svdt-clear clears the recorded death tally of the service being currently supervised at the servicedir service directory.

• 0: success
• 100: wrong usage
• 111: system call failed

Notes

• Use of s6-svdt-clear impacts the listings obtained by the s6-svdt command.
• It also impacts the behaviour of the s6-permafailon command. This is the main reason to use s6-svdt-clear: once a service has failed permanently due to an excessive number of deaths in a given time, it can be useful to erase that record of deaths before starting the service again, in order to avoid permanently failing again too fast.