conmon - Man Page

conmon [options]

conmon is a command-line program for monitoring and managing the lifecycle of Linux containers that follow the Open Container Initiative (OCI) format.

--api-version

Conmon API version to use.

-b,  --bundle

Location of the OCI Bundle path.

-c,  --cid

Identification of Container.

--exec-attach

Attach to an exec session.

-e,  --exec

Exec a command into a running container.

--exec-process-spec

Path to the process spec for execution.

--exit-command

Path to the program to execute when the container terminates its execution.

--exit-command-arg

Additional arguments to pass to the exit command.  Can be specified multiple time.

--exit-delay

Delay before invoking the exit command (in seconds).

--exit-dir

Path to the directory where exit files are written.

-h,  --help

Show help options.

-i,  --stdin

Open up a pipe to pass stdin to the container.

This option tells conmon to setup the pipe regardless of whether there is a terminal connection.

-l,  --log-path

Path to store all stdout and stderr messages from the container.

--leave-stdin-open

Leave stdin open when the attached client disconnects.

--log-level

Print debug logs based on the log level.

--log-size-max

Maximum size of the log file.

--log-tag

Additional tag to use for logging.

-n,  --name

Container name.

--no-new-keyring

Do not create a new session keyring for the container.

--no-pivot

Do not use pivot_root.

--no-sync-log

Do not manually call sync on logs after container shutdown.

-0,  --persist-dir

Persistent directory for a container that can be used for storing container data.

-p,  --container-pidfile

PID file for the initial pid inside of the container.

-P,  --conmon-pidfile

PID file for the conmon process.

-r,  --runtime

Path to store runtime data for the container.

--replace-listen-pid

Replace listen pid if set for oci-runtime pid.

--restore

Restore a container from a checkpoint.

--runtime-arg

Additional arguments to pass to the runtime. Can be specified multiple times.

--runtime-opt

Additional options to pass to the restore or exec command. Can be specified multiple times.

-s,  --systemd-cgroup

Enable systemd cgroup manager, rather then use the cgroupfs directly.

--socket-dir-path

Location of container attach sockets.

--sync

Keep the main conmon process as its child by only forking once.

--syslog

Log to syslog (use with cgroupfs cgroup manager).

-t,  --terminal

Allocate a pseudo-TTY. The default is false.

When set to true, conmon will allocate a pseudo-tty and attach  to  the standard  input of the container. This can be used, for example, to run a throwaway interactive shell. The default is false.

-T,  --timeout

Kill container after specified timeout in seconds.

-u,  --cuuid

Specify the Container UUID to use.

--version

Print the version and exit.

podman(1), buildah(1), cri-o(1), crun(8), runc(8)

October 2020, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com ⟨mailto:dwalsh@redhat.com⟩

podman(1), podman-container-cleanup(1), podman-create(1), podman-generate-systemd(1), podman-run(1).