STARTSRV(8)

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✨ STARTSRV ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the startsrv era 💖 this is a page from the System Manager's Manual, section 8 (that's the sysadmin one, iykyk 👑), and it's all about firing up ttysrv for one specific host. no cap, it's giving "little script, big responsibilities" energy 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

startsrv — invoke ttysrv for a particular host.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

startsrv host

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically, startsrv fires up ttysrv for a given host. main character behavior, literally ✨

first thing it does? it kills any already running instance for that host 💀 no messy exes here, only one ttysrv per host, periodt.

then it goes on a little reading spree, checking a bunch of config files to figure out how you want things set up 🧚:

  • /etc/remote-tty/opt/<host>.srv — this is where the options to pass to ttysrv live. if it's not there, you get the defaults, and the defaults are the ones that set 9600,8n1 🍓
  • /etc/remote-tty/prot/<host>.sock — the permissions the socket should be set to. default is 660 💜
  • /etc/remote-tty/owner/<host>.sock — who owns the socket. default owner is rttymgr:dialout 👑
  • /etc/remote-tty/prot/<host>.log — the permissions of the logfile. default is 640 🌸

and the device node it uses is /etc/remote-tty/dev/<host>. fun fact bestie: this will normally be a symlink pointing at the correct file over in /dev 🦋

lastly, ttysrv gets configured to log to /var/log/remote-tty/<host>/<host>, with its pidfile hanging out at /var/run/remote-tty/pid/<host> and the socket at /var/run/remote-tty/sock/<host> 🌈

like… the path dedication? obsessed. 😭

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

💖 AUTHOR 💖

rtty was written by Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org> 🌟

This manual page was written by Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> for the Debian project (but may be used by others) 🫶

okay that's the whole page, you ate it, you understood it, slay 💅 the source on this one is the System Manager's Manual and the date it's rocking is May 23, 2006 — iconic vintage behavior, honestly, we stan an old-school manual page ⭐ bye bestie! 🎀

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