---
name: "svinfo"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "svtools"
version: "0.6-6"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/svinfo"
---

# svinfo(1)

Get infos about a supervised process

## NAME

svinfo - Get infos about a supervised process

## SYNOPSIS

**svinfo** \[*OPTION*\]... *SERVICE*

## DESCRIPTION

Get infos about a supervised process

- **-l**, **--log**

  Get infos about the attached log process instead of the process itself

- **-w**, **--when**

  Output the time when the service was started

- **-p**, **--pid**

  Output the process id of the service (0 if not running)

- **-s**, **--state**

  Return the process state

-

  0=down and stopped, 1=up and stopped, 2=down and started, 3=up and started

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

  Display help and exit

- **-V**, **--version**

  Display version and exit

With this utility you can gather some information about a supervised process. If no parameters are specified this utility prints the status output from svstat.

## REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to Klaus Reimer \<k@ailis.de\>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2000-2011 by Klaus Reimer\
 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.