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lxc-wait(1) | lxc-wait(1) |
NAME¶
lxc-wait - wait for a specific container state
SYNOPSIS¶
lxc-wait
{-n name} {-s states}
DESCRIPTION¶
lxc-wait waits for a specific container state before exiting, this is useful for scripting.
OPTIONS¶
- -s, --state states
- Specify the container state(s) to wait for. The container states can be ORed to specify several states.
- -t, --timeout timeout
- Wait timeout seconds for desired state to be reached.
COMMON OPTIONS¶
These options are common to most of lxc commands.
- -?, -h, --help
- Print a longer usage message than normal.
- --usage
- Give the usage message
- -q, --quiet
- mute on
- -P, --lxcpath=PATH
- Use an alternate container path. The default is /var/lib/lxc.
- -o, --logfile=FILE
- Output to an alternate log FILE. The default is no log.
- -l, --logpriority=LEVEL
- Set log priority to LEVEL. The default log priority is ERROR.
Possible values are : FATAL, ALERT, CRIT, WARN, ERROR, NOTICE, INFO,
DEBUG, TRACE.
Note that this option is setting the priority of the events log in the alternate log file. It do not have effect on the ERROR events log on stderr.
- -n, --name=NAME
- Use container identifier NAME. The container identifier format is an alphanumeric string.
- --rcfile=FILE
- Specify the configuration file to configure the virtualization and
isolation functionalities for the container.
This configuration file if present will be used even if there is already a configuration file present in the previously created container (via lxc-create).
- --version
- Show the version number.
EXAMPLES¶
- lxc-wait -n foo -s RUNNING
- exits when 'RUNNING' is reached.
- lxc-wait -n foo -s 'RUNNING|STOPPED'
- exits when 'RUNNING' or 'STOPPED' state is reached.
DIAGNOSTIC¶
- The container was not found
- The specified container was not created before with the lxc-create command.
SEE ALSO¶
lxc(7), lxc-create(1), lxc-copy(1), lxc-destroy(1), lxc-start(1), lxc-stop(1), lxc-execute(1), lxc-console(1), lxc-monitor(1), lxc-wait(1), lxc-cgroup(1), lxc-ls(1), lxc-info(1), lxc-freeze(1), lxc-unfreeze(1), lxc-attach(1), lxc.conf(5)
AUTHOR¶
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
2024-02-02 |