---
name: "lunch-slave"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python-lunch"
version: "0.4.0-2"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/lunch-slave"
---

# lunch-slave(1)

Process launcher

## NAME

lunch-slave - Process launcher

## SYNOPSIS

**lunch-slave** \[*options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

The lunch slave utility is an interactive process launcher. It is intended to be run by the lunch master process through an encrypted SSH connection. It launches a single process at a time and allows to specify its environment and to log its standard output and error to a file. Launch it, type "help" and press enter to know more about how it works.

## OPTIONS

- **--version**

  show program's version number and exit

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit

- **-i** ID, **--id**=*ID*

  Identifier of this lunch slave.

## INTERACTIVE USAGE

Start lunch-slave. Type "help" and press enter to learn what other commands one can type.

## HISTORY

2010 - Ported from multiprocessing to Twisted

2009 - Written by Alexandre Quessy \<alexandre@quessy.net\> with contributions  from Simon Piette \<simonp@sat.qc.ca\>

## REPORTING BUGS

See http://svn.sat.qc.ca/trac/lunch for help and documentation.

## SEE ALSO

lunch (1)
