NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | AUTOSTART AND SYSTEM BOOT | STARTUP GROUP EXAMPLES | SEE ALSO | AUTHOR | COLOPHON

LXC-AUTOSTART(1)                                            LXC-AUTOSTART(1)

NAME         top

       lxc-autostart - start/stop/kill auto-started containers

SYNOPSIS         top

       lxc-autostart [ -k ]  [ -L ]  [ -r ]  [ -s ]  [ -a ]  [ -A ]  [ -g
       groups ]  [ -t timeout ]

DESCRIPTION         top

       lxc-autostart processes containers with lxc.start.auto set. It lets
       the user start, shutdown, kill, restart containers in the right
       order, waiting the right time. Supports filtering by lxc.group or
       just run against all defined containers. It can also be used by
       external tools in list mode where no action will be performed and the
       list of affected containers (and if relevant, delays) will be shown.
       The [-r], [-s] and [-k] options specify the action to perform.  If
       none is specified, then the containers will be started.  [-a] and
       [-g] are used to specify which containers will be affected. By
       default only containers without a lxc.group set will be affected.
       [-t TIMEOUT] specifies the maximum amount of time to wait for the
       container to complete the shutdown or reboot.

OPTIONS         top

       -r,--reboot
              Request a reboot of the container.
       -s,--shutdown
              Request a clean shutdown. If a [-t timeout] greater than 0 is
              given and the container has not shut down within this period,
              it will be killed as with the [-k kill] option.
       -k,--kill
              Rather than requesting a clean shutdown of the container,
              explicitly kill all tasks in the container.
       -L,--list
              Rather than performing the action, just print the container
              name and wait delays until starting the next container.
       -t,--timeout TIMEOUT
              Wait TIMEOUT seconds before hard-stopping the container.
       -g,--group GROUP
              Comma separated list of groups to select (defaults to those
              without a lxc.group - the NULL group).  This option may be
              specified multiple times and the arguments concatenated. The
              NULL or empty group may be specified as a leading comma,
              trailing comma, embedded double comma, or empty argument where
              the NULL group should be processed.  Groups are processed in
              the order specified on the command line. Multiple invocations
              of the -g option may be freely intermixed with the comma
              separated lists and will be combined in specified order.
       -a,--all
              Ignore lxc.group and select all auto-started containers.
       -A,--ignore-auto
              Ignore the lxc.start.auto flag. Combined with -a, will select
              all containers on the system.

AUTOSTART AND SYSTEM BOOT         top

       The lxc-autostart command is used as part of the LXC system service,
       when enabled to run on host system at bootup and at shutdown. It's
       used to select which containers to start in what order and how much
       to delay between each startup when the host system boots.
       Each container can be part of any number of groups or no group at
       all.  Two groups are special. One is the NULL group, i.e. the
       container does not belong to any group. The other group is the
       "onboot" group.
       When the system boots with the LXC service enabled, it will first
       attempt to boot any containers with lxc.start.auto == 1 that is a
       member of the "onboot" group. The startup will be in order of
       lxc.start.order.  If an lxc.start.delay has been specified, that
       delay will be honored before attempting to start the next container
       to give the current container time to begin initialization and reduce
       overloading the host system. After starting the members of the
       "onboot" group, the LXC system will proceed to boot containers with
       lxc.start.auto == 1 which are not members of any group (the NULL
       group) and proceed as with the onboot group.

STARTUP GROUP EXAMPLES         top

       -g "onboot,"
              Start the "onboot" group first then the NULL group.
              This is the equivalent of: -g onboot -g "".
       -g "dns,web,,onboot"
              Starts the "dns" group first, the "web" group second, then the
              NULL group followed by the "onboot" group.
              This is the equivalent of: -g dns,web -g ,onboot or -g dns -g
              web -g "" -g onboot.

SEE ALSO         top

       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         top

       Stéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com>

COLOPHON         top

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                                 2017-07-05                 LXC-AUTOSTART(1)