_PLUTORUN(8)

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✨ _PLUTORUN(8) ✨

okay so bestie, real talk — this one lives in the Executable programs corner of the manual, section 8, and it's like... an internal lil backstage script, not the main character you'd normally call. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

ipsec__plutorun — an internal script that (re)starts pluto on those old-school SYSV initscript systems 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea: _plutorun gets called by _realsetup to configure and bring up pluto(8). It invokes pluto, and then it literally just watches — making sure that if pluto fails, it gets restarted. Why? Because the SYSV initscripts do not provide a restart facility, so somebody's gotta babysit. 😭

And lowkey important: when other init systems are in the picture — think systemd or upstart — _plutorun is not used. Not even a little. ✨

ngl, this is a "only shows up in one very specific situation" kind of script. if you're on systemd you can just close this tab, bestie 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read those, iykyk 💖

🧚 HISTORY 🧚

  • The man page was written for the Linux FreeS/WAN project <https://www.freeswan.org/> by Michael Richardson. 🌈
  • The original program? Written by Henry Spencer. iconic. 👑
  • And it was updated for the Libreswan project <https://libreswan.org/> by Paul Wouters. slay. 💅

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Paul Wouters

  • just a placeholder to suppress warning — that's it, that's the whole entry 🙈 (fr fr, it says so)

and that's the whole page, bestie! 🎀 signed off from the libreswan era, dated 10/19/2026, still rockin' that _PLUTORUN(8) name at the bottom like the main character it is 💜🦋✨

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