ics command line arguments

ICS Version: 0.7.2425

The internet communication server executable ics has several command line arguments.

An introduction to the command line arguments of ics can be displayed by executing ics without any command line arguments.

Also the version of the ics executable is displayed.

ics [command] [identifier] [options]

Version: V0R1B1021

Commands

help

display help

console

start ics in the console

Windows Service

install

install as service (currently windows only)

remove

remove service (currently windows only)

start

start ics windows service (currently windows only)

Administration

stop

stops the running instance (service or console)

reload

reloads the configuration

exec

executes a library extension command

Information

showconfig

displays the currently active configuration

stats

displays current snapshot of statistics

Internal Usage only

service

start ics as windows service (internal usage - currently windows only)

child

start ics as worker process (internal usage only)

logger

start ics logger process (internal usage only)

daemonize

start extension library process as daemon (internal usage only)

test

start ics for testing as server and client (internal usage only - currently broken)

size

display size of various objects (internal usage only)

Identifier

The identifier for the ics instance to apply the command to. This allows to manage multiple instances of ICS each being identified by a separate identifier.

Options

Options are specified by prefixing the option with - (linux) or / (windows).

[-|/]cfg

configuration file to use

[-|/]cfgdir

configuration directory to use. Opens configuration file with pattern ics[identifer].cfg

[-|/]t

trace level to use (0=none, 7=default, 15=warn, 31=details, 63=verbose, 1023=debug, 2047=all)

[-|/]trc

trace file to use

[-|/]dbgsleep

sleep s when starting child process

[-|/]lib

the library to execute the command specified by -libcmd

[-|/]libcmd

the command of the library specified by -lib to execute

help command

Passing help as command argument and the command as 2nd argument displays the help for the command.