lsm(1)

💖 lsm(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for lsm, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood man pages. grab a snack, we're doing this 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

lsm — monitor connectivity status 🦋

like... it watches your connection for you. that's the whole gig.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lsm [OPTIONS...]

that's it. that's the summoning ritual. you run lsm, you may sprinkle in some [OPTIONS...], and it does its thing 💅

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

okay so LSM is a link connectivity monitor tool. literally its whole personality.

you'd use LSM to monitor the connectivity of a Linux router/firewall. and here's the part that's actually iconic: if that box has multiple connections, LSM can change routing when an up/down event happens — by utilizing an external script. so it's not just watching, it's ✨delegating✨. it notices the vibe shift and hands it off to your script to deal with. main character energy fr fr 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h | --help — shows you a summary of the options. the "wait what does this do again" button 🫶
• -v --version — shows the version of the program. for when you need to know exactly which flavour of lsm you're dealing with 💜
• -c --config FILE — lets you point at an alternative config file instead of the default one. your config, your rules ✨
• -p --pidfile FILE — lets you point at an alternative pid file instead of the default one. for the besties who like their pids filed somewhere specific 📁
• -f --no-fork — makes the instance independent of the other instance(s) already running. no cap, this one's a whole different vibe from the default behaviour 👀

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💅 AUTHOR 💅

this manual page was written by Lucas de Castro Borges lucascastroborges@gmail.com for the Debian system (and may be used by others, slay). permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. go read it, it's giving ✨legal literacy✨ 📜

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also a gentle heads-up bestie: this manpage has no SEE ALSO section in it, so don't come for me — there's literally nothing to cross-reference here 🙈

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and that's the whole page, start to finish 💖 the footer just signs it off with lsm(1) one more time, because this page is, was, and always will be lsm(1) from the General Commands Manual — no version number, no date, just vibes. periodt 🌸🦋