ACC Utilities Reference Guide

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ZMASTERD - Daemon Monitoring Feature
Activate Option
Activate Optio n
The activate di rective is used to cause zmasterd to start a daemon,and to
monitor that daemon.
This can be used to restart a daemon that has been deactivated, or it can
be used to start a daemon that was not in the original zmasterd_list file.
The format of the command is:
% zmasterd act <daemon> ”<argument list>”
The given daemon will be started with the given argument list (Note that
unlike the argument list for the start statement in zmasterd_list,the
argument list for the act directive must be in “quotes”. If that daemon
terminates, it will then be restarted with this same parameter list. If the
daemon has a start entry in the zmasterd_list file, the start parameters
in that file will not be used again until zmasterd is run again with no
runstring parameters or with the cold <file> parameters.
The activate optioncanbeusedtostartthemonitoringofadaemon,
regardless of whether or not it is in the zmasterd_list file.
When the zmasterd stop comm and is run, it will only stop daemons t hat
are listed in the zmasterd_list stop statements. If a daemon is
“activated”, but is not listed in a stop statement, it will not be
terminated.
Note that zmon may not be activated. Zmasterd ca n only start zmon by
running zmasterd with no runstring parameters and having zmon listed
in the zmasterd_list file, or by running zmasterd with the cold <file>
parameters.