lxc-wait(1) - Linux man page
Name
lxc-wait - wait for a specific container state
Synopsis
lxc-wait -n name -s states .SH "DESCRIPTION"
lxc-wait waits for a specific container state before exiting, this is useful for scripting.
Options
-s states
- Specify the container state(s) to wait for. The container states can be ORed to specify several states.
Common Options
These options are common to most of lxc commands.
- -?, -h, --help
- Print a longer usage message than normal.
- --usage
- Give the usage message
- -q, --quiet
- mute on
- -o, --logfile=FILE
- Output to an alternate log FILE. The default is no log.
- -l, --logpriority=LEVEL
- Set log priority to LEVEL. The default log priority is ERROR. Possible values are : FATAL, CRIT, WARN, ERROR, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG.
Note that this option is setting the priority of the events log in the alternate log file. It do not have effect on the ERROR events log on stderr.
- -n, --name=NAME
- Use container identifier NAME. The container identifier format is an alphanumeric string.
Examples
lxc-wait -n foo -s RUNNING
- exits when 'RUNNING' is reached.
- lxc-wait -n foo -s 'RUNNING|STOPPED'
- exits when 'RUNNING' or 'STOPPED' state is reached.
Diagnostic
The container was not found
- The specified container was not created before with the lxc-create command.
See Also
lxc(1), lxc-create(1), lxc-destroy(1), lxc-start(1), lxc-stop(1), lxc-execute(1), lxc-kill(1), lxc-console(1), lxc-monitor(1), lxc-wait(1), lxc-cgroup(1), lxc-ls(1), lxc-ps(1), lxc-info(1), lxc-freeze(1), lxc-unfreeze(1), lxc-attach(1), lxc.conf(5)
Author
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>