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rays 73092e6ad7 Stop a hand-run daemon by its PID, not pkill -x ipx (#38)
On Tower the host sees the processes inside containers, so the
pkill -x ipx that CLAUDE.md recommended would have killed production's
daemon in the iPodderX container along with the test one. CLAUDE.md now
says to stop a hand-run daemon by its own PID; docs/cli.md keeps
pkill -x for a plain install and warns about the container case.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-19 15:12:08 +00:00

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# Command line
```
ipx [--config PATH] [--local] <command>
```
Every command that has a wire form probes the control socket first: if a daemon is running, the
daemon does the work and the CLI just renders the events it streams back. That is deliberate — two
processes must never download the same thing. `--local` forces the work to happen in-process.
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| `ipx list` | Subscriptions and their state |
| `ipx status` | Counts: feeds, pending, downloaded |
| `ipx fetch [FEED] [--force]` | Scan everything, or one feed. `--force` ignores the TTL |
| `ipx add <url> [--folder X] [--keywords a,b]` | Subscribe; the id comes from the feed title |
| `ipx rm <feed>` | Unsubscribe; downloads and history are kept |
| `ipx import <file.opml>` / `ipx export <file.opml>` | Move subscriptions in or out. Import subscribes the first admin, as the shared web token does; in the web UI it subscribes whoever is signed in |
| `ipx reap [--dry-run]` | Run retention now |
| `ipx user <add\|list\|passwd\|rm>` | Accounts for the web UI |
| `ipx daemon [--web ADDR]` | Scheduler, control socket and web UI |
## Accounts
Passwords are read from **stdin**, so they miss the shell history and any `ps` listing.
```sh
echo -n 'a good password' | ipx user add ray # local account
ipx user add ray@example.com --no-password # signs in through the proxy only
echo -n 'a good password' | ipx user passwd admin # change a password
ipx user list # who exists, and how each signs in
ipx user rm sam # account, subscriptions and read state
```
The first account created is an admin; later ones are ordinary users. A database with no accounts
at all gets **admin / ipodderx** on the next daemon start, announced in the log — change it.
To avoid even the command line, read it interactively:
```sh
read -s PW && echo -n "$PW" | ipx user passwd admin
```
## Scanning
```sh
ipx fetch # everything due
ipx fetch atp --force # one feed, ignoring its TTL and schedule
```
A scan: conditional GET (`If-None-Match` / `If-Modified-Since`), parse, record new entries, apply
the filters, then download up to the per-scan cap, newest first. A feed nothing has changed in
answers `304` and costs one request.
## Retention
```sh
ipx reap --dry-run # what would go, oldest first
ipx reap # actually delete
```
Files are deleted to get back under `max_total_gb`, oldest first, and items past `max_age_days`
with no file are pruned from the database. **An item anyone kept keeps its file**, and one only counts
as read when everyone subscribed has read it. The enclosure row survives as `reaped`, which is what
stops the next scan fetching it again.
## The daemon
```sh
ipx daemon # scheduler + socket + web UI
ipx daemon --web 0.0.0.0:8099 # override the configured bind for one run
```
One daemon per socket; a second refuses to start rather than fight over the database. It shuts down
cleanly on SIGTERM, including mid-download.
To kill it, match the binary exactly:
```sh
pkill -x ipx
```
`pkill -f ipx` matches the shell running the command too, and kills your own session. On a machine
that also runs ipx in a container, `pkill -x ipx` stops that one as well, since the host sees a
container's processes: stop the one you started by its PID instead (`kill <pid>`).
## Talking to it directly
```sh
printf '{"cmd":"fetch","force":true}\n' | socat - UNIX-CONNECT:$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/ipx.sock
```
See [architecture.md](architecture.md#control-socket) for the protocol.