---
name: "xsup_get_state"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "xsupplicant"
version: "1.2.4.dfsg.1-3"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/xsup_get_state"
---

# xsup\_get\_state(1)

Display xsupplicant status.

## NAME

xsup\_get\_state - Display xsupplicant status.

## SYNOPSIS

**xsup\_get\_state** *interface*

## DESCRIPTION

The **xsup\_get\_state** utility accepts a single argument of a network interface name and returns the current status of xsupplicant for that interface.

## DIAGNOSTICS

An exit status of 0 is returned when the current state does not reflect an error condition, all other conditions including a failure to connect to the domain socket result in an exit status of 1.

## SEE ALSO

[**xsup\_set\_pwd**(1)](/xsup_set_pwd/1.md), [**config-parser**(1)](/config-parser/1.md), [**xsup\_monitor**(1)](/xsup_monitor/1.md),  [**xsup\_ntpwdhash**(1)](/xsup_ntpwdhash/1.md), [**xsupplicant**(8)](/xsupplicant/8.md).

The *Open1x User's Guide* in /usr/share/doc/xsupplicant.

## AUTHOR

xsupplicant was written by Arunesh Mishra \<arunesh@cs.umd.edu\>, Nick L.  Petroni Jr. \<npetroni@cs.umd.edu\>, Bryan D. Payne \<bdpayne@cs.umd.edu\>,  Chris Hessing \<Chris.Hessing@utah.edu\>, and Terry Simons  \<Terry.Simons@m.cc.utah.edu\>.

This manual page was written by Eric Evans \<eevans@sym-link.com\> for the  Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy,  distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General  Public License, Version 2, or any later version published by the Free  Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can  be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.