genrc - News
posted by gray, Fri Feb 27 13:26:20 2026 - 0 replies
Genrc version 2.2 is available for download. This version fixes behavior of the "restart" subcommand if the program to be restarted is not already running. In this case, genrc will warn about the fact and start the program as if given the "start" subcommand. This matches the expected startup script behavior.
posted by gray, Sun Dec 14 11:00:35 2025 - 0 replies
Genrc version 2.1 is available for download. User-visible changes in this version:
The special value ! used after resource letter in the -l option, sets the limit to "infinity" (meaning "no limit").
posted by gray, Thu Mar 20 13:07:03 2025 - 0 replies
Genrc version 2.0 is available for download. New in this release:
- Environment variables are no longer used by default.
- Command line processing rewritten from scratch.
- New option -C DIR: change to DIR. ...
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posted by gray, Tue Jul 16 13:49:21 2024 - 0 replies
This version implements new command verb: wait. It instructs genrc to wait for the service to finish and implies that its termination was initiated by some third-party means. The command exits with code 0 if the service has finished and with code 1 if stop timeout has been reached.
posted by gray, Tue Jul 16 05:15:43 2024 - 0 replies
Genrc version 1.5.2 is released. New in this version:
New option: -q, --quiet
This is a counterpart of --verbose: it suppresses all diagnostic messages, except errors. It is especially useful with the status command verb, when only the exit status of the command is of interest.
Fix timestamps produced with --log-file
posted by gray, Wed Jul 3 11:54:04 2024 - 0 replies
Genrc version 1.4 is available for download. New in this version:
- New option -k (--kill-mode)
- Enforcing limits
- Logging program output to file
See the NEWS file for details.
posted by gray, Wed Sep 9 15:14:12 2020 - 0 replies
Version 1.2 is available for download. New features:
- Verbose diagnostics
- Shell selection
- Syslog configuration
- Runtime resourse limits
posted by gray, Sun May 20 08:52:52 2018 - 0 replies
Version 1.1 is available for download.
This version implements the restart mode.
The restart mode is a special feature of sentinel mode, controlled by the new options ...
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posted by gray, Tue May 15 11:20:25 2018 - 0 replies
Version 1.0 is available for download.
