NAME

ecs_ctl - ECS control

SYNOPSIS

ecs_ctl --start

ecs_ctl --stop

ecs_ctl --restart

ecs_ctl --status

ecs_ctl --start --user=emdistest

DESCRIPTION

This program is an administration utility for the Perl-ECS daemons. You can start | stop or restart the Perl-ECS daemons from the shell in a more easy and comfortable way. The status-function is similar to the ecs_pid_chk function. You can run it for a distinct ecs instance by using the --user parameter.

OPTIONS

--start

Starts the Perl ECS daemons if they are not still running.

--stop

Stops the Perl ECS daemons with kill -15 <PID> command.

--restart

A combination of the --stop and --start function. Very useful for checking your hacks in frequent intervals.

--status

Checks whether and how many of the ECS daemons are running. If several daemons are running on purpose (i.e. for several ECS users) the --user option has to be used.

--help

This option shows you this information.

BUGS

Possibly.

TO DO

This utility should run on linux and solaris, but not on windows systems.

AUTHOR

Andreas Mack <andreas.mack@zkrd.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Copyright (C) 2007-2011 ZKRD <http://www.zkrd.de>

HISTORY

ECS, the EMDIS Communication System, was originally designed and implemented by the ZKRD (http://www.zkrd.de/). This Perl implementation of ECS was developed by the National Marrow Donor Program (http://www.marrow.org/).