GLANCE-CONTROL(1)

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🎀 GLANCE-CONTROL(1) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to glance-control — the Glance Daemon Control Helper, living in section 1 of the manual (manual group: cloud computing, iykyk). This is your little remote control for the Glance daemons: start 'em, stop 'em, reload 'em, vibe check 'em. 💅

✨ GLANCE DAEMON START/STOP/RELOAD HELPER ✨

Some behind-the-scenes tea before we get to the fun part:

  • Author — OpenStack Glance Project Team 🫶
  • Contact — <glance@lists.launchpad.net>
  • Date — 2025-04-02
  • Copyright — OpenStack Foundation
  • Version — 30.0.0
  • Manual section — 1
  • Manual group — cloud computing

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

glance-control [options] <SERVER> <COMMAND> [<CONFPATH>]

okay so three-ish things go in here, let's break it down:

Where <SERVER> is one of:

all, api, glance-api, registry, glance-registry, scrubber, glance-scrubber

And <COMMAND> is one of:

start, status, stop, shutdown, restart, reload, force-reload

And <CONFPATH> is the optional configuration file to use. literally optional, but she's there if you need her 💖

💅 OPTIONS 💅

General Options

  • -h, --help — shows you the help message and then dips (exits).
  • --version — prints the version number and exits. the classic.
  • -v, --verbose — prints more verbose output. she's chatty and we love that for her.
  • --noverbose — turns verbose output off. the anti-chatty setting.
  • -d, --debug — prints debugging output, which lowkey means it sets the logging level to DEBUG instead of the default WARNING level.
  • --nodebug — disables debugging output. bye debug.
  • --use-syslog — uses syslog for logging.
  • --nouse-syslog — disables the use of syslog for logging.
  • --syslog-log-facility SYSLOG_LOG_FACILITY — the syslog facility that receives the log lines.
  • --config-dir DIR — path to a config directory to pull *.conf files from. bestie listen: this file set is sorted, so you get a predictable parse order if individual options are over-ridden. The set is parsed after the file(s) specified via previous --config-file arguments, so over-ridden options in the directory take precedence. Which means — and this is the important part — configuration from files in a specified config-dir will always take precedence over configuration from files specified by --config-file, regardless of argument order. no cap.
  • --config-file PATH — path to a config file to use. You can stack multiple config files by using this flag multiple times, like --config-file <file1> --config-file <file2>. Values in latter files take precedence. last one wins, periodt.
  • --log-config-append PATH --log-config PATH — the name of the logging configuration file. It does not disable existing loggers — it just appends the specified logging configuration to any other existing logging options. Please see the Python logging module documentation for the details on logging configuration files. Also heads up: the log-config name for this option is deprecated. 😭
  • --log-format FORMAT — a logging.Formatter log message format string, and it may use any of the available logging.LogRecord attributes. Default: None
  • --log-date-format DATE_FORMAT — format string for %(asctime)s in log records. Default: None
  • --log-file PATH, --logfile PATH — (optional) name of the log file to output to. If it's not set, logging goes to stdout. choosing violence, respect.
  • --log-dir LOG_DIR, --logdir LOG_DIR — (optional) the directory to keep log files in. This one gets prepended to --log-file.
  • --pid-file=PATH — file to use as the pid file. Default: /var/run/glance/$server.pid
  • --await-child DELAY — period to wait for service death in order to report the exit code. The default is to not wait at all, so if you want an exit code you gotta ask nicely.
  • --capture-output — capture stdout/err in syslog instead of discarding it.
  • --nocapture-output — the inverse of --capture-output.
  • --norespawn — the inverse of --respawn.
  • --respawn — restart the service on unexpected death. main character energy fr fr, she refuses to stay down.

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

💀 BUGS 💀

👑 Author 👑

OpenStack

2010-present, OpenStack Foundation.

and that's the whole page, bestie 🦋 version 33.0.0, dated Sep 30, 2026 — go forth and control those daemons responsibly, mwah 💜🎀

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