SAT(1)

💖 SAT(1) — the Salut à Toi manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from Salut à Toi's manual, and it's all about libervia-backend, aka Libervia's backend manager. yes the man page is literally named SAT but the command inside is sat. we love a plot twist 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

libervia-backend — Libervia's backend manager 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sat [stop | debug | fg | status]

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe check. four little words and a dream ✨

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so sat is Salut à Toi's core program, the main character fr fr 👑 It's the thing you use to launch and stop Salut à Toi's backend — and the backend has to be running if you wanna use literally any of the frontends. no backend, no service, periodt.

but here's the chill part, bestie: you don't actually have to run sat manually. it'll just start itself whenever you launch one of the frontends. it's giving self-sufficient. it's giving independent. we stan an autonomous queen 💅

when you invoke it with no argument, the backend gets launched in the background (sneaky, silent, doing its thing backstage 🌙). but you can also call it with these arguments:

• stop — stops the backend. bye bestie, you did great 🫶
• debug — starts the backend up inside a debugger 🔍
• fg — starts the backend in the foreground (so it's right there with you, holding your hand 🌸)
• status — checks whether or not the backend is currently running. is she alive?? is she thriving?? let's find out 💀

🌈 COMMON COMMANDS 🌈

okay so ALL of the frontends support commands that start with a slash (/), and those get interpreted by the backend. so like, the backend is the brains, the frontend is just the face card 🧠✨

wanna see the whole list of these slash commands? literally just type /help in any chat window. that's it. that's the whole trick. iykyk 💅

🦋 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🦋

• SAT_LOG_LEVEL — set this to debug, info, warning, error or critical and the backend will log accordingly. the default level is info, so if you don't touch it, that's what you get 🍓

⭐ ONLINE RESOURCES ⭐

there's a whole web page that links up all the good stuff — the project's official XMPP chat room, the mailing lists, the bug tracker, and the online documentation. go check it out, it's the plug 🔌

that page is called Salut à Toi's Community Page 💖

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• jp(1)
• primitivus(1)
• wix(1)

the whole friend group, together at last 🫶

🎀 AUTHORS AND COPYING 🎀

Salut à Toi was written by Jérôme Poisson <goffi@goffi.org> 💜

This man page was created by Matteo Cypriani <mcy@lm7.fr> for the Debian distribution, back in 2013. It's released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA 3.0). respect the license bestie, it's the law 🌈

and that's the whole page!! you ate that, no crumbs 💅

Salut à Toi 0.5 · dated 2014-09-19 · and yes, we're still calling it SAT(1) 💖✨🎀