s6
Software
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The s6-svstat program

s6-svstat prints a short, human-readable summary of the state of a supervised service.

Interface

     s6-svstat servicedir

s6-svstat gives the following information about the process being monitored at the servicedir service directory, then exits 0:

• whether it is up or down
• its pid, if it is up
• what its default state is, if it is different from its current state
• the number of seconds since it last changed states