blogctl.8

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.TH BLOGCTL 8 "Jan 14, 2016" "Version 2.12" "The SUSE boot concept"
.UC 8
.SH NAME
blogctl \- Control the boot loggind daemon blogd
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B /sbin/blogctl
.RI [ ping | quit | root=<path> | ready | close ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B blogctl may be used to check if a
.B blogd
daemon is active as well as to send comands to such a daemon.
.SH COMANDS
The following commands are known:
.TP
.B ping
Send a simply ping request if
.B blogd
daemon is up and running.
.TP
.B quit
Cause the
.B blogd
daemon to finish its logging and then gracefully quits.
.TP
.BI root= <path>
This command take a path as further value of the new root file
system which is mounted e.g. in initrd.
.TP
.B ready
Tells the
.B blogd
daemon that the file systems had becomes writable.
.TP
.B close
Cause the
.B blogd
daemon to finish its logging only to allow
.BR systemd (8)
to unmount the file systems finally.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR blogd (8),
.BR systemd (1),
.SH COPYRIGHT
2015 Werner Fink,
2015 SuSE Linux GmbH.
.SH AUTHOR
Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>