NAME

unitd —

runs the NGINX Unit daemon

SYNOPSIS

unitd [--no-daemon] [--control socket] [--group name] [--user name] [--log file] [--modules directory] [--pid file] [--state directory]

unitd [-h | --help | -v | --version]

DESCRIPTION

NGINX Unit is a polyglot app server, a reverse proxy, and a static file server for UNIX-like systems. It was built by nginx(8) team members from scratch to be highly efficient and fully configurable at runtime.

OPTIONS

-h, --help: Displays a summary of Unit's command-line options and their compile-time defaults.
-v, --version: Displays Unit's version and the ./configure settings it was built with.
--no-daemon: Runs Unit in non-daemon mode.
--control socket: Overrides the control API's socket address in IPv4, IPv6, or UNIX-domain format.
--group name, --user name: Override group name and user name used to run Unit's non-privileged processes.
--log file: Overrides the pathname for Unit's log.
--modules directory: Overrides the directory path for Unit's language modules (*.unit.so) files.
--pid file: Overrides the pathname for the PID file of Unit's main process.
--state directory: Overrides the directory path for Unit's state storage.

EXIT STATUS

Exit status is 0 on success, or 1 if the daemon encounters an error.

FILES

/var/run/unit/unit.pid: The PID file of Unit's main process.
/var/log/unit/unit.log: A general-purpose log for diagnostics and troubleshooting.

SOCKETS

unix:/var/run/unit/control.unit.sock: The socket address of Unit's control API.