service-status 1 user commands nosh service-status svstat daemontools compatibility service status display service-status --long --colour --log-lines lines directory svstat directory service-status displays human-readable (but not necessarily machine parseable) information about a service that may be currently managed by service-manager1 (or runit's runsv1, s6's s6-supervise1, daemontools' supervise1, or daemontools-encore's supervise1). Each directory is either a supervise directory or a daemontools-style service directory with a supervise directory named supervise within it. For more on service and supervise directories, see service-manager1. If the standard output is a terminal, service-status uses TerminalCapabilities3 and an ECMA48Output instance to display various parts of the output in different colours, highlighting different service states in different colours for example. The --colour command line option tells it to do this unconditionally, even if its standard output is not a terminal. The --long command line option switches from the default 1-line output form to a multiple-line form. This form includes the service's configured enable/disable state, information about its "main" process, and (if it has an associated service accessible via the conventional log/ name that in turn has its log directory accessible via the conventional main/ name) the tail end of the service's log, post-processed by the tai64nlocal1 command. The --log-lines command passes lines to the tail1 command with its -n option. Ready-after-run services have their states reported slightly different to other services. Such a service that is in the "stopped" daemontools-encore state will be reported as "done" if its run program has been run at least once. Such a service that is in the "running" daemontools-encore state will be reported as "started" if its run program is still running and "ready" otherwise. For daemontools and daemontools-encore compatibility, this command is also available as svstat. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard