lxc-freeze1

Usage

Overview

lxc-freeze freezes all the processes running inside the container. The processes will be blocked until they are explicitly thawed by the lxc-unfreeze command. This command is useful for batch managers to schedule a group of processes.

Options

These options are common to most of lxc commands.

FC-?, -h, --helpF[0]

Print a longer usage message than normal.

FC--usageF[0]

Give the usage message

FC-q, --quietF[0]

mute on

FC-P, --lxcpath=F[0]PATH

Use an alternate container path. The default is /var/lib/lxc.

FC-o, --logfile=F[0]FILE

Output to an alternate log FILE. The default is no log.

FC-l, --logpriority=F[0]LEVEL

Set log priority to LEVEL. The default log priority is FCERRORF[0]. Possible values are : FCFATALF[0], FCALERTF[0], FCCRITF[0], FCWARNF[0], FCERRORF[0], FCNOTICEF[0], FCINFOF[0], FCDEBUGF[0], FCTRACEF[0].

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.

FC-n, --name=F[0]NAME

Use container identifier NAME. The container identifier format is an alphanumeric string.

FC--rcfile=F[0]FILE

Specify the configuration file to configure the virtualization and isolation functionalities for the container.

This configuration file if present will be used even if there is already a configuration file present in the previously created container (via lxc-create).

FC--versionF[0]

Show the version number.

Diagnostic

The container was not found

The specified container was not created before with the lxc-create command.