stopsocks

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 27 Aug 1997
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NAME

stopsocks - A script to manage standalone socks5 daemons

SYNOPSIS

stopsocks [-p port][signal] [[pid]]

DESCRIPTION

The stopsocks script restarts and terminates standalone socks5 daemons. stopsocks is most useful for stopping preforked daemons. Use the command

: stopsocks -9

to terminate all running daemons.

When you omit arguments, stopsocks attempts to send an HUP signal to the currently running socks5 daemon. The socks5 daemon stores its PID in /tmp/socks5.pid. You can change the filename that socks5 uses to store its PID with the --with-srvpidfile=filename configure option or with the SOCKS5_PIDFILE environment variable.

port

Identifies the port number of the socks5 daemon. When you include the -p flag as the first argument, stopsocks uses the next argument as the port number.

signal

Specifies the signal to send to the process. Valid values are 1 and 9:

: 1 - the HUP signal, instructs stopsocks to re-read the configuration file.
: 9 - the kill signal, terminates the socks5 daemon.

You may optionally include PID with the signal argument. When you omit pid, stopsocks sends signal to the currently running socks5 daemon.

pid: Specifies the process that receives signal

AUTHOR

NWSL SOCKS5 Development Team
Send comments to socks5-comments@socks.nec.com