salt.modules.freebsdservice

The service module for FreeBSD

Important

If you feel that Salt should be using this module to manage services on a minion, and it is using a different module (or gives an error similar to 'service.start' is not available), see here.

salt.modules.freebsdservice.available(name, jail=None)

Check that the given service is available.

Changed in version 2016.3.4.

jail: optional jid or jail name

CLI Example:

salt '*' service.available sshd

salt.modules.freebsdservice.disable(name, **kwargs)

Disable the named service to start at boot

Arguments the same as for enable()

Changed in version 2016.3.4.

jail (optional keyword argument)

the jail's id or name

chroot (optional keyword argument)

the jail's chroot, if the jail's /etc is not mounted read-write

CLI Example:

salt '*' service.disable <service name>

salt.modules.freebsdservice.disabled(name, **kwargs)

Return True if the named service is enabled, false otherwise

CLI Example:

salt '*' service.disabled <service name>

salt.modules.freebsdservice.enable(name, **kwargs)

Enable the named service to start at boot

name

service name

config/etc/rc.conf

Config file for managing service. If config value is empty string, then /etc/rc.conf.d/<service> used. See man rc.conf(5) for details.

Also service.config variable can be used to change default.

Changed in version 2016.3.4.

jail (optional keyword argument)

the jail's id or name

chroot (optional keyword argument)

the jail's chroot, if the jail's /etc is not mounted read-write

CLI Example:

salt '*' service.enable <service name>

salt.modules.freebsdservice.enabled(name, **kwargs)

Return True if the named service is enabled, false otherwise

name

Service name

Changed in version 2016.3.4.

Support for jail (representing jid or jail name) keyword argument in kwargs

CLI Example:

salt '*' service.enabled <service name>

salt.modules.freebsdservice.get_all(jail=None)

Return a list of all available services

Changed in version 2016.3.4.

jail: optional jid or jail name

CLI Example:

salt '*' service.get_all

salt.modules.freebsdservice.get_disabled(jail=None)

Return what services are available but not enabled to start at boot

Changed in version 2016.3.4.

Support for jail (representing jid or jail name) keyword argument in kwargs

CLI Example:

salt '*' service.get_disabled

salt.modules.freebsdservice.get_enabled(jail=None)

Return what services are set to run on boot

Changed in version 2016.3.4.

Support for jail (representing jid or jail name) keyword argument in kwargs

CLI Example:

salt '*' service.get_enabled

salt.modules.freebsdservice.missing(name, jail=None)

The inverse of service.available. Returns True if the specified service is not available, otherwise returns False.

Changed in version 2016.3.4.

jail: optional jid or jail name

CLI Example:

salt '*' service.missing sshd

salt.modules.freebsdservice.reload_(name, jail=None)

Restart the named service

Changed in version 2016.3.4.

jail: optional jid or jail name

CLI Example:

salt '*' service.reload <service name>

salt.modules.freebsdservice.restart(name, jail=None)

Restart the named service

Changed in version 2016.3.4.

jail: optional jid or jail name

CLI Example:

salt '*' service.restart <service name>

salt.modules.freebsdservice.start(name, jail=None)

Start the specified service

Changed in version 2016.3.4.

jail: optional jid or jail name

CLI Example:

salt '*' service.start <service name>

salt.modules.freebsdservice.status(name, sig=None, jail=None)

Return the status for a service. If the name contains globbing, a dict mapping service name to True/False values is returned.

Changed in version 2016.3.4.

Changed in version 2018.3.0: The service name can now be a glob (e.g. salt*)

Parameters:

• name (str) -- The name of the service to check

• sig (str) -- Signature to use to find the service via ps

Returns:

True if running, False otherwise dict: Maps service name to True if running, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

CLI Example:

salt '*' service.status <service name> [service signature]

salt.modules.freebsdservice.stop(name, jail=None)

Stop the specified service

Changed in version 2016.3.4.

jail: optional jid or jail name

CLI Example:

salt '*' service.stop <service name>