unwindctl(8)

unwindctl8

Control the unwind daemon

Usage

unwindctl [-s socket] command [argument ...]

Overview

The unwindctl program controls the unwind(8) daemon.

The following options are available:

-s socket

Use socket instead of the default /dev/unwind.sock to communicate with unwind(8).

The following commands are available:

log brief

Disable verbose logging.

log verbose

Enable verbose logging.

log debug

Enable very noisy debug logging.

reload

Reload the configuration file.

status

Show a status summary.

status autoconf

Show nameservers learned from dhcpleased(8) or slaacd(8).

Files

/dev/unwind.sock

UNIX-domain socket used for communication with unwind(8).

Releases

17 releases since OpenBSD 6.5; the text changed 4 times.

  1. 6.5–6.6
  2. 6.7–6.9
  3. 7.0–7.2
  4. 7.3–7.7
  5. 7.8–8.0

History

The unwindctl program first appeared in OpenBSD 6.5.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.