| status [time] | Display status information on the currently listening daemons. If time is specified, the process repeats every time seconds. |
| reload | Cause sockd to re-read the configuration file |
| newlog | Cause sockd to reopen the usage log. New startup records for every active client are written. |
| dumpconfig | Cause sockd to dump its current configuration to the file given by dump-file, with sockd's pid appended. |
| dumpclients | Cause sockd to dump information about all active clients to the file given by client-file, with sockd's pid appended. |
| unlisten | Cause sockd to stop listening. Existing connections remain open, but no new connections will be created. Sockd will also stop listening to sdc at this point. |
| stop | Stop sockd. This will close any open connections. |
| start | Launch /opt/socks/sbin/sockd |
| restart | Equivalent to unlisten followed by start |