---
name: "mslavedc"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "mandelspawn"
version: "0.07pl2-0.1"
release: "Debian 2.1 (Slink)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mslavedc"
---

# mslavedc(8)

MandelSpawn computation server control program

## NAME

mslavedc - MandelSpawn computation server control program

## SYNOPSIS

**mslavedc -k** \| **-q** host \| \[ **-p** port \] \[  **-n** niceval \] \[ **-t** timeout \] mslaved

## DESCRIPTION

*mslavedc* is a program for starting and killing *mslaved* processes on machines where this is not done automatically by  *inetd*(8C). *Mslavedc* is used by the  [*enslave*(1)](/enslave/1.md) script.

With the **-q** option (query), it tries to contact a server already running on the specified host.  If it succeeds, it prints the PID of that server.

With the **-k** option, mslavedc tries to kill any *mslaved*  process already running on the local host.

If neither **-k** nor **-q** is given, *mslavedc*  expects the pathname of  [*mslaved*(8)](/mslaved/8.md) as an argument.  A datagram socket is created and  *mslaved* is *exec*'ed with the socket as standard input. The **-p** option may be used to specify a port number other than the default of 9359.  The **-n** option and its argument, if present, are passed on to *mslaved* to set its nice value. The **-t** (timeout) option is also passed to *mslaved*; if not present, **-t900** is used giving a timeout of 15 minutes.

## SEE ALSO

xms(1), [bms(1)](/bms/1.md), [enslave(1)](/enslave/1.md), [mslavedc(8)](/mslavedc/8.md)

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1990 Andreas Gustafsson (gson@niksula.hut.fi)