mc-service(1)

💖 mc-service(1) 💖

hiii bestie, welcome to the mc-service manual page (section 1 of the manual, if you're keeping score ✨). grab a boba, this one's short and sweet and honestly kinda iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

mc-service — stops, starts and queries Operating System services. that's it, that's the whole job 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mc-service [options] service action

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so mc-service is a script that stops, starts and queries Operating System services. she's a little overachiever like that 🫶

Usage, exactly as written:

mc-service [options] service action

and here's every single option, no gatekeeping, no cap 🧚:

• --np, --no-progress — do not show the progress bar. bye bar 👋
• -1, --one — send the request to only one discovered node. just the one. one single node. 🍓
• --limit-nodes, --ln [COUNT] — send the request to only a subset of nodes, and yes bestie, it can be a percentage 💯

🌈 Common Options

• -T, --target COLLECTIVE — target messages to a specific sub collective 🎯
• -c, --config FILE — load configuration from a file rather than the default one
• --dt, --discovery-timeout SECONDS — timeout for doing discovery ⏳
• -t, --timeout SECONDS — timeout for calling remote agents
• -q, --quiet — do not be verbose (shhh 🤫)
• -v, --verbose — be verbose (tell me EVERYTHING 💀)
• -h, --help — display this screen 👑

🌸 Host Filters

• -W, --with FILTER — combined classes and facts filter, two for one, we love a combo ✨
• -F, --wf, --with-fact fact=val — match hosts with a certain fact
• -C, --wc, --with-class CLASS — match hosts with a certain config management class
• -A, --wa, --with-agent AGENT — match hosts with a certain agent
• -I, --wi, --with-identity IDENT — match hosts with a certain configured identity 🪪

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manpage was written by Juan L. Negron <juan@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document and the utility under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation. slay, legally speaking 📜

The complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on Debian/Ubuntu systems, or in /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/GPL on Fedora systems, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

fr fr if you're copying or modifying this, the GPLv3 terms are the whole vibe — read them, don't skip them 🙈

and that's the page bestie!! 🎀 this was the mc-service manual, page mc-service(1), dated 21 June 2011, straight from the mc-service source. love that for us. now go stop and start some services, you absolute main character 👑💜