Commit 83149f12 authored by Dridi Boukelmoune's avatar Dridi Boukelmoune

Use the correct syntax for RST ``literals``

parent ecb6e716
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CLI - bossing Varnish around
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Once `varnishd` is started, you can control it using the command line
Once ``varnishd`` is started, you can control it using the command line
interface.
The easiest way to do this, is using `varnishadm` on the
same machine as `varnishd` is running::
The easiest way to do this, is using ``varnishadm`` on the
same machine as ``varnishd`` is running::
varnishadm help
If you want to run `varnishadm` from a remote system, you can do it
If you want to run ``varnishadm`` from a remote system, you can do it
two ways.
You can SSH into the `varnishd` computer and run `varnishadm`::
You can SSH into the ``varnishd`` computer and run ``varnishadm``::
ssh $http_front_end varnishadm help
But you can also configure `varnishd` to accept remote CLI connections
But you can also configure ``varnishd`` to accept remote CLI connections
(using the '-T' and '-S' arguments)::
varnishd -T :6082 -S /etc/varnish_secret
And then on the remote system run `varnishadm`::
And then on the remote system run ``varnishadm``::
varnishadm -T $http_front_end -S /etc/copy_of_varnish_secret help
but as you can see, SSH is much more convenient.
If you run `varnishadm` without arguments, it will read CLI commands from
`stdin`, if you give it arguments, it will treat those as the single
If you run ``varnishadm`` without arguments, it will read CLI commands from
``stdin``, if you give it arguments, it will treat those as the single
CLI command to execute.
The CLI always returns a status code to tell how it went: '200'
means OK, anything else means there were some kind of trouble.
`varnishadm` will exit with status 1 and print the status code on
``varnishadm`` will exit with status 1 and print the status code on
standard error if it is not 200.
What can you do with the CLI
----------------------------
The CLI gives you almost total control over `varnishd` some of the more important tasks you can perform are:
The CLI gives you almost total control over ``varnishd`` some of the more important tasks you can perform are:
* load/use/discard VCL programs
* ban (invalidate) cache content
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varnish> start
If you start `varnishd` with the '-d' (debugging) argument, you will
If you start ``varnishd`` with the '-d' (debugging) argument, you will
always need to start the child process explicitly.
Should the child process die, the master process will automatically
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