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diff --git a/man/udevd.8 b/man/udevd.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c6251de4d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/udevd.8 @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: udevd +.\" Author: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.78.0 <http://docbook.sf.net/> +.\" Date: 10/31/2014 +.\" Manual: udevd +.\" Source: udev +.\" Language: English +.\" +.TH "UDEVD" "8" "" "udev" "udevd" +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * Define some portability stuff +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 +.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * set default formatting +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" disable hyphenation +.nh +.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) +.ad l +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.SH "NAME" +udevd \- Device event managing daemon +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.PP +udevd +.HP \w'\fB/sbin/udevd\fR\ 'u +\fB/sbin/udevd\fR [\fB\-\-daemon\fR] [\fB\-\-debug\fR] [\fB\-\-children\-max=\fR] [\fB\-\-exec\-delay=\fR] [\fB\-\-resolve\-names=early|late|never\fR] [\fB\-\-version\fR] [\fB\-\-help\fR] +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.PP +\fBudevd\fR +listens to kernel uevents\&. For every event, udevd executes matching instructions specified in udev rules\&. See +\fBudev\fR(7)\&. +.PP +The behavior of the running daemon can be changed dynamically with +\fBudevadm control\fR, or configured using +\fBudev.conf\fR(5)\&. +.SH "OPTIONS" +.PP +\fB\-\-daemon\fR +.RS 4 +Detach and run in the background\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-debug\fR +.RS 4 +Print debug messages to stderr\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-children\-max=\fR +.RS 4 +Limit the number of events executed in parallel\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-exec\-delay=\fR +.RS 4 +Delay the execution of RUN instruction by the given number of seconds\&. This option might be useful when debugging system crashes during coldplug caused by loading non\-working kernel modules\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-resolve\-names=\fR +.RS 4 +Specify when udevd should resolve names of users and groups\&. When set to +\fBearly\fR +(the default) names will be resolved when the rules are parsed\&. When set to +\fBlate\fR +names will be resolved for every event\&. When set to +\fBnever\fR +names will never be resolved and all devices will be owned by root\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-version\fR +.RS 4 +Print version number\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-help\fR +.RS 4 +Print help text\&. +.RE +.SH "ENVIRONMENT" +.PP +\fI$UDEV_LOG=\fR +.RS 4 +Set the logging priority\&. +.RE +.SH "KERNEL COMMAND LINE" +.PP +Parameters starting with "rd\&." will be read when +\fBudevd\fR +is used in an initrd\&. +.PP +\fIudev\&.log\-priority=\fR, \fIrd\&.udev\&.log\-priority=\fR +.RS 4 +Set the logging priority\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIudev\&.children\-max=\fR, \fIrd\&.udev\&.children\-max=\fR +.RS 4 +Limit the number of events executed in parallel\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIudev\&.exec\-delay=\fR, \fIrd\&.udev\&.exec\-delay=\fR +.RS 4 +Delay the execution of RUN instruction by the given number of seconds\&. This option might be useful when debugging system crashes during coldplug caused by loading non\-working kernel modules\&. +.RE +.PP +\fInet\&.ifnames=\fR +.RS 4 +Network interfaces are renamed to give them predictable names when possible\&. It is enabled by default, specifying 0 disables it\&. +.RE +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.PP + +\fBudev.conf\fR(5), +\fBudev\fR(7), +\fBudevadm\fR(8) |