ACE_NETSVCS(1)

✨ ACE_NETSVCS(1) — General Commands Manual 🎀

Okay bestie, come sit by me 🫶 this is the manual page for ace_netsvcs, the ACE network services driver 💅. It's literally the tool that gets the ACE network services running, and it's giving main character energy 👑.

✨ NAME ✨

ace_netsvcs — ACE network services driver 🦋.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ace_netsvcs [OPTION ...]

Bestie, that's the whole vibe: run ace_netsvcs and toss in as many options as you want 💖.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so ace_netsvcs is the driver that starts up ACE network services 🚀. Right now, libnetsvcs gives you all of these services 🌈:

• Naming Service 📛
• Time Service ⏰
• Token Service 🪙
• Server Logging Service 📝
• Client Logging Service 📒
• Logging Strategy Service 🧠

Literally the whole squad in one place, no cap 💅✨.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

Okay, now the good stuff 🍓. Here are all the options:

• -f svc.conf — Point it at a svc.conf config file that isn't the default one 📄. You can repeat -f to load several files at once 🧚.
• -d — Turns on debugging mode 🙈.
• -n — Explicitly turns off static services 🚫. This one beats the @a ignore_static_svcs parameter value, so it wins no matter what 👑.
• -p pathname — Tells it where to stash the process id 📍.
• -s signal — Picks a signal number other than SIGHUP to trigger reprocessing of the config file(s) 🔁. Heads up bestie: this gets ignored on platforms without POSIX signals, like Windows 🪟💀.
• -y — Explicitly turns on static services ✅. This one overrides the @a ignore_static_svcs parameter value too 💜.
• -S directive — Passes in a service directive string right on the command line 🎀. Wrap the string in quotes and backslash-escape any quotes inside it 🫠. The big perk is you don't even need a config file for this one 🥰.
• -b — Makes the process a daemon 👻. Quick heads up: when you use this, it daemonizes before the config file(s) get read 🙀. On POSIX systems the current directory switches to "/", so either spell out your file names in full, or run a @c chroot() into the right directory 🗺️. Want more deets? Check out ACE::daemonize() 📚.
• -k point — Sets the rendezvous point used by the ACE distributed logger 🌸.

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

Let's see it in action 💅:

ace_netsvcs -f /usr/share/ace-netsvcs/svc.conf

This one starts ACE network services using the example configuration 🎀.

ace_netsvcs -S 'dynamic Name_Server Service_Object *
netsvcs:_make_ACE_Name_Acceptor() "-p 20006"'

And this one starts the ACE Naming service with a command line configuration 📛✨.

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Go peek at these when you want more 🧚💜:

• /usr/share/ace-netsvcs/svc.conf
• /usr/share/doc/ace-netsvcs/ACE-netsvcs.html

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Written by Douglas C. Schmidt <schmidt@cs.wustl.edu> 🫶🌈

Bye bestie, go forth and daemonize responsibly 💖🦋 — ACE_NETSVCS(1) 🌸