LIGHTTPD-ANGEL(8)

💖 NAME 💖

lighttpd-angel — bestie who monitors/supervises the lighttpd daemon 🫶✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lighttpd-angel <args>

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so. lighttpd-angel is literally the emotional support bestie for your lighttpd daemon. it monitors/supervises lighttpd (which gets started with <args>), and if lighttpd exits for any reason — like, any reason at all — angel will restart it. no cap. the one exception: if lighttpd exits because of signals that lighttpd-angel itself sent, then obviously it stays down, because that was the plan bestie 💅

so how do you talk to her? signals, babe. signals only 👑

• Send lighttpd-angel SIGTERM — initiates immediate shutdown of lighttpd. like, right now. bye. 💀
• Send lighttpd-angel SIGINT — initiates graceful shutdown of lighttpd. she finishes her sentence first 🎀
• Send lighttpd-angel SIGHUP — initiates graceful restart of lighttpd. glow-up era ✨
• Send lighttpd-angel SIGUSR1 — initiates graceful reload of the lighttpd config. new fit, same girl 🌸

fr fr, that's the whole vibe: she babysits, you signal, she obeys. main character energy on both sides 🦋

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Online Documentation — the reading list, iykyk 📚💖

• https://wiki.lighttpd.net/InstallFromSource
• https://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2007/09/02/there-is-an-angel-for-lighty/

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jan Kneschke <jan@kneschke.de> — the icon, the moment, the legend 🫶

k bye bestie, this page was served fresh from the LIGHTTPD-ANGEL(8) manual, dated 2016-10-18, and yes she's still iconic 💜✨