Ubic is a polymorphic service manager.

"Polymorphic" means that Ubic can use various pluggable backends for managing services, for configuring services and even for describing a list of all services. Don't panic, it offers easy-to-use default solutions for the common tasks out-of-the-box too!

Put this code in file /etc/ubic/service/example.ini:

[options]
bin = sleep 100

Start it:

$ ubic start example
Starting example... started (pid 41209)

Check its status:

$ ubic status
example running (pid 41209)
ubic
    ubic.ping   off
    ubic.update off
    ubic.watchdog   running (pid 93226)

Or:

$ ubic status example
example running (pid 41209)

Now let's see how watchdog works by killing the process (don't forget to change pid with the pid you got in status command above):

$ kill 41209

$ ubic status example
example not running

$ ubic-watchdog
[Thu May 26 20:20:54 2011]  example is broken, restarting

You don't have to run ubic-watchdog manually; it will do its work in background in a minute.

Read Ubic::Manual::Intro and Ubic::Manual::Overview for more.

Run 'cpan -i Ubic && ubic-admin setup' to install Ubic.

We also provide .deb packages for Debian/Ubuntu. Latest .deb package can be downloaded from ppa:berekuk/ubic (see https://launchpad.net/~berekuk/+archive/ubic for details).

Debian package build can be reproduced with this command: dzil build && cd Ubic* && cp -r ../debian . && debuild

If you'll write ebuilds for Gentoo or specs for RPM-based systems, please contribute them back :)

After installing, you can find documentation for this module using perldoc and man commands.

man ubic
perldoc Ubic

You can also look for information at:

• Github Wiki
• CPAN

Our IRC channel: irc://irc.perl.org#ubic.

There is also a low-volume mailing list is [email protected]. Send an empty message to [email protected] to subscribe.

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