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.TH dae 1 "2009 March 11"
.SH NAME
dae \- List and control system daemons
.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
.B dae
[\-a] | [\-l] | [\-L] | <service-name>[+|-|=|?| action]... | [\-h]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fIdae\fP is used to control or list all daemons on the system. 

Shortcuts are provided for often used actions start, stop, restart and status.

If executed as a non-root user and 
.B sudo 
or 
.B su 
are available, they will be used to execute the requested actions.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\-h display a short help message
.TP
\-a show all daemon scripts
.TP
\-l show system daemon scripts
.TP
\-L show port daemon scripts (BSD based systems only - deprecated)
.TP
\-x show X11 daemon scripts (BSD based systems only - deprecated)

.SH SHORTCUTS
.TP
+ start
.TP
- stop
.TP
= restart
.TP
? status

.SH EXAMPLES
.nf
.B dae apa restart
.fi
Restart
.B apache
using daemon name expansion.
.P

.\".nf
.\".B dae samba stop samba start
.\".fi
.\"Stop and then start
.\".B samba
.\"using multiple actions

.nf
.B dae sshd+
.fi
Start
.B sshd
using a shortcut operator.
.P

.nf
.B dae apa= my= apa? my?
.fi
Restart
.B apache
and
.B mysqld
and then request a status from both.
.P

.SH AUTHOR
Dylan Bridgman (light (at) ether.org.za)
.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBinit\fP(8), \fBrc\fP(8), \fBrcorder\fP(8), \fBsu\fP(1), \fBsudo\fP(8)