S6-RC-SET-STATUS(8)

💅 s6-rc-set-status(8) — the group chat version 🎀

ok so bestie, this is a page from the System Manager's Manual — it's s6-rc-set-status, and she's here to spill the tea on which services are in a set and which rx each one is living in. iykyk ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

s6-rc-set-status — list some of, or all, the services of a set, along with the rx each service is on 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

s6-rc-set-status [-v verbosity] [-r repo] [-E | -e] [-L] set
                 [services...]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically: s6-rc-set-status prints the services in set set of repository repo, one per line, straight to stdout. no cap. 🫶

if some services... are specified, it only prints the ones listed — like, only the girlies you asked about. if services... is empty, it prints all the services in the set. main character energy, the whole roster. 👑

each line is literally made of:

• the name of the service
• a slash (/) character
• the canonical name for the rx the service is in

and then it exits 0. slay. 💅

🧚 Notes

• s6-rc-set-status is meant to be used with automation such as util-linux's column(1) for formatting. a slash is used to separate the service name from the rx because slashes cannot appear in service names. iconic design choice honestly, no notes ⭐

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• -v verbosity, --verbosity=verbosity — be more or less verbose. the default is 1, which means that error messages and warnings will be written to stderr. 0 means that only error messages will be written, and 2 or more adds informational messages. chatter levels, we love them 💬
• -r repo, --repository=repo — use the repository in repo, which must exist. default is /var/lib/s6-rc/repository. 🍓
• -E, --with-essentials — do not ignore services in the always rx, i.e. services marked as essential. this is the default. the essential girlies stay 💜
• -e, --without-essentials — ignore services in the always rx: do not print them. bye besties ✌️
• -L, --list — do not print /rx at the end of each line: only print the service names. just names, minimal, clean, aesthetic 🎀

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😭 EXIT STATUS 😭

• 0 — Success. we ate. 🔥
• 3 — Nonexistent set. that set is not in the group chat 💀
• 100 — Incorrect usage. bestie what were you typing 🙈
• 102 — Invalid repository. not a real repo, ngl 🌈
• 111 — System call failed. the vibes were off, system-level 😔

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

column(1), s6-rc-repo(7)

this man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/s6-rc-set-status.html 🦋

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Laurent Bercot Carlos Eduardo <carana2099@gmail.com> (man page port)

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ok that's the whole page bestie, every flag and every exit code, fr fr 💖

ported with love from the Debian package — page dated January 24, 2026 — and yes, this whole thing is the S6-RC-SET-STATUS(8) page from the System Manager's Manual, mwah 💋