lxc-wait (1) Linux Manual Page
lxc-wait – wait for a specific container state
Synopsis
lxc-wait {-n name} {-s states}Description
lxc-wait waits for a specific container state before exiting, this is useful for scripting.Options
- -s states
- Specify the container state(s) to wait for. The container states can be ORed to specify several states.
- -t timeout
- Wait timeout seconds for desired state to be reached.
Common Options
These options are common to most of lxc commands.- -?, -h, –help
- Print a longer usage message than normal.
- –usage
- Give the usage message
- -q, –quiet
- mute on
- -P, –lxcpath=PATH
- Use an alternate container path. The default is /var/lib/lxc.
- -o, –logfile=FILE
- Output to an alternate log FILE. The default is no log.
- -l, –logpriority=LEVEL
- Set log priority to LEVEL. The default log priority is ERROR. Possible values are : FATAL, CRIT, WARN, ERROR, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG.
Note that this option is setting the priority of the events log in the alternate log file. It do not have effect on the ERROR events log on stderr.
- -n, –name=NAME
- Use container identifier NAME. The container identifier format is an alphanumeric string.
- –version
- Show the version number.
Examples
- lxc-wait -n foo -s RUNNING
- exits when ‘RUNNING’ is reached.
- lxc-wait -n foo -s ‘RUNNING|STOPPED’
- exits when ‘RUNNING’ or ‘STOPPED’ state is reached.
Diagnostic
- The container was not found
- The specified container was not created before with the lxc-create command.