.Dd October 10, 2023
.Dt KITD 8
.Os
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.Sh NAME
.Nm kitd
.Nd process supervisor
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl d
.Op Fl c Ar cooloff
.Op Fl n Ar name
.Op Fl t Ar restart
.Ar command ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
daemon supervises
a child process,
redirecting its standard output
and standard error to
.Xr syslog 3 .
When the child process exits,
it is automatically restarted
using exponential backoff.
.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl c Ar cooloff
The interval for which
the child process must live
before the restart interval
is reset to its initial value.
.Pp
The interval may have a suffix of
.Sy s , m , h
or
.Sy d
for seconds, minutes, hours or days,
respectively.
Otherwise,
the interval is in milliseconds.
.Pp
The default cooloff interval is
.Sy 15m .
.It Fl d
Do not daemonize.
Log to standard error
as well as
.Xr syslog 3 .
.It Fl n Ar name
Set the name of the process
and the logging prefix.
The default is
the last path component of
.Ar command .
.It Fl t Ar restart
The initial interval between automatic restarts.
This interval is doubled
each time the child process
is restarted.
.Pp
The interval is interpreted as with
.Fl c .
The default restart interval is
.Sy 1s .
.El
.
.Pp
.Nm
responds to the following signals:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Dv SIGTERM | Dv SIGINT
The signal is forwarded to
the child process.
.Nm
exits.
.It Dv SIGINFO
The status of the child process
is logged.
.It Dv SIGHUP | Dv SIGUSR1 | Dv SIGUSR2
The signal is forwarded to
the child process.
.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
To set up supervisors for
.Xr pounce 1 :
.Bd -literal
# ln -s kitd /etc/rc.d/pounce_tilde
# ln -s kitd /etc/rc.d/pounce_libera
# rcctl enable pounce_tilde pounce_libera
# rcctl set pounce_tilde user _pounce
# rcctl set pounce_tilde flags pounce -h irc.tilde.chat defaults.conf
# rcctl set pounce_libera user _pounce
# rcctl set pounce_libera flags pounce -h irc.libera.chat defaults.conf
# rcctl start pounce_tilde pounce_libera
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.Sh AUTHORS
.An June McEnroe Aq Mt june@causal.agency