.\" .\" Copyright (c) 2025-2026, Leafscale, LLC. All rights reserved. .\" Use is subject to license terms. .\" .Dd March 6, 2026 .Dt ZYGCTL 8 .Os Hammerhead .Sh NAME .Nm zygctl .Nd administrative control utility for zyginit .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Ar command .Op Ar argument .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is the administrative command-line interface for the .Xr zyginit 8 service supervisor. It communicates with the running .Nm zyginit daemon over a Unix domain socket to query service status, start and stop services, and manage the enabled service set. .Pp Commands that modify the enabled service set .Pq Cm enable , Cm disable operate directly on the filesystem and do not require the daemon to be running. All other commands connect to the daemon socket. .Sh COMMANDS .Bl -tag -width "restart" .It Cm status Op Ar name Display the status of all services, or of the named service if .Ar name is given. Output includes the service name, current state, and if running, the process ID and contract ID. .It Cm start Ar name Start the named service. If the service is already running, a message is printed and no action is taken. .It Cm stop Ar name Stop the named service. The stop method is determined by the service definition: either a contract-wide signal or execution of a stop command. If the service does not stop within its configured timeout, it is forcibly terminated with .Dv SIGKILL . .It Cm restart Ar name Restart the named service. If the service is running, it is stopped first. If the service is stopped or in maintenance, it is started immediately. .It Cm list List all loaded service definitions with their type .Pq daemon, oneshot, transient . .It Cm enable Ar name Enable a service for automatic start at boot. Creates a symlink in .Pa /etc/zyginit/enabled.d/ pointing to the service's TOML definition. The service is not started immediately; use .Cm start to start it now. .It Cm disable Ar name Disable a service from automatic start at boot. Removes the symlink from .Pa /etc/zyginit/enabled.d/ . The service is not stopped immediately; use .Cm stop to stop it now. .It Cm log Ar name Display the output log for the named service. Service stdout and stderr are captured to per-service log files under .Pa /var/run/zyginit/log/ . Log files are truncated on each service start, so only the most recent output is shown. Useful for diagnosing startup failures. .It Cm reload Reload the service configuration. The daemon re-scans .Pa /etc/zyginit/enabled.d/ and compares with the current service table. Newly-enabled services are started; disabled services are stopped. This is equivalent to sending .Dv SIGHUP to the .Xr zyginit 8 process. .It Cm replace Op Fl -wait Ns = Ns Ar N Replace the running .Xr zyginit 8 process via in-place .Xr execve 2 of .Pa /sbin/init . All running services keep running across the swap; their process contracts, restart counters, and uptimes are preserved via a state file at .Pa /var/run/zyginit/state.toml . The operator must drop the new binary at .Pa /sbin/init .Em before issuing this command; .Nm does not stage or copy binaries. .Pp With .Fl -wait Ns = Ns Ar N , poll up to .Ar N seconds for any service in a transient state .Pq starting , stopping , waiting to stabilize before refusing. Default is .Ar N = .Sy 0 (refuse immediately). Useful for automation: run .Nm .Cm replace Fl -wait Ns = Ns Sy 60 to either succeed within a minute or fail with a known upper bound on time. .Pp The replace flow is operator-driven only; it does not cover crash recovery. See .Xr zyginit 8 for the full mechanism. .It Cm version Print the version of .Nm . .It Cm help Print a summary of available commands. .El .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width "ZYGINIT_CONFIG_DIR" .It Ev ZYGINIT_SOCKET Path to the .Xr zyginit 8 control socket. Default: .Pa /var/run/zyginit.sock .It Ev ZYGINIT_LOG_DIR Path to the per-service log directory. Used by the .Cm log command. Default: .Pa /var/run/zyginit/log .It Ev ZYGINIT_CONFIG_DIR Path to the service definition directory. Used by the .Cm enable and .Cm disable commands to locate TOML files and the .Pa enabled.d/ subdirectory. Default: .Pa /etc/zyginit .El .Sh EXIT STATUS .Nm exits 0 on success. If it cannot connect to the daemon socket, a diagnostic message is printed to standard error. .Sh EXAMPLES Show the status of all services: .Bd -literal -offset indent $ zygctl status sshd running pid=1234 ctid=7 cron running pid=1235 ctid=8 filesystem stopped .Ed .Pp Show the status of a single service: .Bd -literal -offset indent $ zygctl status sshd sshd running pid=1234 ctid=7 .Ed .Pp Stop and disable a service: .Bd -literal -offset indent # zygctl stop sshd sshd stopping # zygctl disable sshd .Ed .Pp Enable and start a service: .Bd -literal -offset indent # zygctl enable sshd # zygctl start sshd sshd started .Ed .Pp List all loaded service definitions: .Bd -literal -offset indent $ zygctl list sshd (daemon) cron (daemon) network (oneshot) filesystem (oneshot) .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr zyginit 8 , .Xr zyginit 5 .Sh HISTORY .Nm first appeared in Zygaena/Hammerhead alongside .Xr zyginit 8 . .Sh AUTHORS .An Chris Tusa Aq Mt chris.tusa@leafscale.com .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2025-2026, Leafscale, LLC. All rights reserved. .\" Use is subject to license terms. .\" .Dd March 6, 2026 .Dt ZYGINIT 8 .Os Hammerhead .Sh NAME .Nm zyginit .Nd init daemon and service supervisor for Zygaena/Hammerhead .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is the init daemon (PID 1) and service supervisor for the Zygaena/Hammerhead operating system. It replaces SMF .Pq Service Management Facility with a single-process, TOML-configured service manager. .Pp At boot, .Nm performs the following sequence: .Bl -enum .It Scans the enabled services directory for symlinks .Pq see Sx CONFIGURATION . .It Reads each service's TOML definition to extract dependencies. .It Performs a topological sort to determine parallel boot tiers. .It Starts services tier by tier, respecting dependency order. .It Opens a Unix domain socket for .Xr zygctl 8 communication. .It Enters the main event loop, monitoring process contracts, signals, and the control socket via .Xr poll 2 . .El .Pp .Nm supervises all managed services. When a service exits, the restart policy defined in its TOML definition determines whether the service is restarted, placed into maintenance, or left stopped. .Ss Service Types .Nm supports three service types: .Bl -tag -width "transient" .It Sy daemon A long-running process. .Nm monitors the process via a Hammerhead process contract and applies the restart policy when it exits. .It Sy oneshot A short-lived process that runs once at boot .Pq e.g., mounting filesystems, configuring network interfaces . Once it exits successfully, the service is considered .Dq done . A non-zero exit places the service into the .Sy failed state. .It Sy transient A process started on demand via .Xr zygctl 8 that is not started automatically at boot. .El .Ss Service States Each managed service is in one of the following states: .Bl -tag -width "maintenance" .It Sy disabled The service is not enabled for boot .Pq no symlink in Ar enabled.d . .It Sy waiting The service is waiting to start .Pq dependency not yet met or restart delay pending . .It Sy starting The service is being started .Pq fork/exec in progress . .It Sy running The service process is alive and being monitored. .It Sy stopping A stop has been requested; waiting for the process to exit. .It Sy stopped The service has exited and will not be restarted. .It Sy failed The service exited abnormally .Pq oneshot with non-zero exit, or unrecoverable error . .It Sy maintenance The service has exceeded its maximum restart count. Administrative intervention is required. Use .Xr zygctl 8 to clear and restart. .El .Ss Process Contracts On Hammerhead, .Nm uses kernel process contracts .Pq see Xr contract 5 to track all descendants of a service process. This ensures that orphaned grandchild processes are properly managed and that .Nm receives notification when all processes in a service's contract have exited. .Pp When .Nm is restarted .Pq e.g., for an upgrade , it re-adopts existing contracts so that running services are not disrupted. .Pp On systems without process contract support, .Nm falls back to direct PID-based monitoring via .Xr waitpid 2 . .Ss Signal Handling .Nm handles the following signals: .Bl -tag -width "SIGCHLD" .It Dv SIGTERM , Dv SIGINT Initiate graceful shutdown. All running services are stopped in reverse boot order. .It Dv SIGHUP Reload service configuration. The daemon re-scans .Pa /etc/zyginit/enabled.d/ and compares with the current service table. Newly-enabled services are started; disabled services are stopped. This is equivalent to the .Cm reload command in .Xr zygctl 8 . .It Dv SIGCHLD Reap exited child processes and dispatch to the service supervisor. .It Dv SIGPIPE Ignored. .El .Sh CONFIGURATION .Nm reads its service definitions from .Pa /etc/zyginit/ . Each service is defined by a TOML file in that directory. See .Xr zyginit 5 for the full service definition format. .Ss Enabling and Disabling Services Services are enabled by creating a symlink in the .Pa enabled.d subdirectory: .Bd -literal -offset indent /etc/zyginit/enabled.d/sshd -> ../sshd.toml .Ed .Pp To enable a service: .Bd -literal -offset indent # zygctl enable sshd .Ed .Pp To disable: .Bd -literal -offset indent # zygctl disable sshd .Ed .Pp These operations can also be performed manually with .Xr ln 1 and .Xr rm 1 . .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width "ZYGINIT_CONFIG_DIR" .It Ev ZYGINIT_CONFIG_DIR Path to the service definition directory. Default: .Pa /etc/zyginit .It Ev ZYGINIT_SOCKET Path to the Unix domain socket for .Xr zygctl 8 communication. Default: .Pa /var/run/zyginit.sock .It Ev ZYGINIT_LOG_DIR Path to the per-service log directory. Service stdout and stderr are captured here. Default: .Pa /var/run/zyginit/log .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width "/etc/zyginit/enabled.d/" .It Pa /sbin/init The init daemon binary .Pq kernel exec target on Hammerhead . .It Pa /etc/zyginit/ Directory containing service definition TOML files. .It Pa /etc/zyginit/enabled.d/ Symlinks to enabled service definitions. Only services with a symlink here are started at boot. .It Pa /var/run/zyginit.sock Unix domain socket for administrative communication. Created after tmpfs is mounted. .It Pa /var/run/zyginit/log/ Per-service output log directory. Each service's stdout and stderr are captured to .Pa .log in this directory. Log files are truncated on each service start. .El .Sh LIVE REPLACE .Nm supports operator-driven, in-place replacement of the PID-1 process via .Xr execve 2 without disturbing running services. The operator drops a new binary at .Pa /sbin/init and runs .Xr zygctl 8 .Cm replace . The running .Nm serializes its in-memory service-supervision state to .Pa /var/run/zyginit/state.toml \(em service name, contract ID, restart count, uptime \(em unlinks the control socket, then .Xr execve 2 Ns 's .Pa /sbin/init . PID-1 in-place .Xr execve 2 preserves .Va proc_t.p_ct_process , so the kernel-level contract ownership survives the swap; the new .Nm process re-reads .Pa /var/run/zyginit/state.toml , re-establishes its userspace bookkeeping, and continues supervising. .Pp The boot-id sentinel .Pq Pa /proc/1/stat field 22 on Linux; .Pa /proc/1/psinfo .Va pr_start.tv_sec on Hammerhead is read at startup by the new .Nm to detect stale state files left over from before a real reboot. PID 1's process start time survives .Xr execve 2 .Pq same proc_t but changes on real reboot .Pq new PID 1 . A mismatch causes the new .Nm to ignore (and delete) the file and proceed as a fresh boot. .Pp This mechanism is for live upgrades only; it does not cover crash recovery, since .Nm crashing as PID 1 is already a system-level event. See .Xr zygctl 8 .Cm replace for invocation details. .Sh EXAMPLES Start .Nm in non-init mode for testing .Pq not as PID 1 : .Bd -literal -offset indent # ZYGINIT_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/zyginit zyginit .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr zygctl 8 , .Xr zyginit 5 , .Xr contract 5 .Sh HISTORY .Nm first appeared in Zygaena/Hammerhead as a replacement for SMF .Pq Service Management Facility . .Sh AUTHORS .An Chris Tusa Aq Mt chris.tusa@leafscale.com