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plakar-agentRun the Plakar agent

plakar agent[start [-foreground] [-log logfile] [-teardown delay]]

plakar agentstop

The plakar agent start command, which is the default, starts the Plakar agent which will execute subsequent plakar(1) commands on their behalfs for faster processing.

plakar agent is executed automatically by most plakar(1) commands and terminates by itself when idle for too long, so usually there's no need to manually start it.

The options for plakar agent start are as follows:

Do not daemonize, run in the foreground and log to standard error.
logfile
Write log output to the given logfile which is created if it does not exist. The default is to log to syslog.
delay
Specify the delay after which the idle agent terminate. The delay parameter must be given as a sequence of decimal value, each followed by a time unit (e.g. “1m30s”). Defaults to 5 seconds.

plakar agent stop forces the currently running agent to stop. This is useful when upgrading from an older plakar(1) version were the agent was always running.

The plakar-agent utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

0
Command completed successfully.
>0
An error occurred, such as invalid parameters, inability to create the repository, or configuration issues.

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