Telodendria/docs/user/usage.md

Usage

This document provides general documentation on how to use the telodendria server binary, as well as details on how it behaves. The details here will be useful for setting up init systems, running Telodendria in a container, or manually executing the binary for testing or debugging purposes.

Command Line Options

Typically, Telodendria is controlled via the Administrator API, but the Telodendria binary does include a few command line options, which can be used in init scripts or for debugging purposes.

The command line arguments are as follows:

• -d <dir> Specify the data directory to use. All persistent storage that Telodendria requires is saved to and loaded from here.
• -V Only print the version information header and then quit with a success exit code.
• -v Verbose mode. This overrides the configuration and sets the log level to debug. It also enables additional logging of memory operations, which can be useful for debugging.

Before proposing additional command line arguments, consider whether or not the functionality requested can be provided via a (potentially new and as of yet uncreated) administrator API endpoint.

Environment

Telodendria does not read any environment variables. All configuration should be done via the Configuration API.

Signals

Telodendria recognizes and responds to a number of signals:

• PIPE: This signal is ignored, because all I/O errors should already be handled properly.
• USR1: Perform a soft restart by shutting down the HTTP servers and resetting the program state. Note that the daemon process does not exit.
• TERM: Perform a clean shutdown after all existing connections are closed.
• INT: Same as TERM.

Any other signals are not explicitly handled, so they have the default behavior as defind by the operating system.

Exit Status

Telodendria exits with a non-0 exit code if the configuration file is invalid, or one or more of required paths or files is inaccessible. Telodendria will print an error to the log and then terminate abnormally.

Telodendria exits with a code of 0 if the configuration file is valid, all paths and files required are accessible, and the HTTP listener starts as intended. If Telodendria is sent a signal that it catches after it begins servicing requests, it will still exit normally after it safely shuts down, because the bootstrap process completed successfully, and by all accounts, it ran normally and exitted normally.