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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-06-22 10:38:40 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-06-22 10:38:40 +0200
commitb79f817b1bec4f7e39a1ed8b9d42a0c191c22ef5 (patch)
treeee8941e4b8f1ecb55817ce1886337c98c0ba7355 /man/systemd-udevd.service.xml
parent9473414219330b9febc1d0712bbf49ad74cf962f (diff)
man: refer to udevd by its service name not binary name
Since the binary name is now hidden away in /usr/lib/ the primary user handle for the udev service is the unit name, hence change the man page to be available under the unit name, and make the binary name an alias for it.
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+<?xml version='1.0'?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+
+<refentry id="systemd-udevd">
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <title>udevd</title>
+ <productname>systemd</productname>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <contrib>Developer</contrib>
+ <firstname>Kay</firstname>
+ <surname>Sievers</surname>
+ <email>kay@vrfy.org</email>
+ </author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ </refentryinfo>
+
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>systemd-udevd</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+ <refmiscinfo class="version"></refmiscinfo>
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>systemd-udevd.service</refname>
+ <refname>systemd-udevd</refname>
+ <refpurpose>Device event managing daemon</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <para><filename>systemd-logind.service</filename></para>
+
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd</command>
+ <arg><option>--daemon</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--debug</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--children-max=</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--exec-delay=</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--resolve-names=early|late|never</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--version</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--help</option></arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1><title>Description</title>
+ <para>systemd-udevd listens to kernel uevents. For every event, systemd-udevd executes matching
+ instructions specified in udev rules. See <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>udev</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>.</para>
+ <para>The behavior of the running daemon can be changed with
+ <command>udevadm control</command>.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1><title>Options</title>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--daemon</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Detach and run in the background.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--debug</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Print debug messages to stderr.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--children-max=</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Limit the number of parallel executed events.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--exec-delay=</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Number of seconds to delay the execution of RUN instructions.
+ This might be useful when debugging system crashes during coldplug
+ cause by loading non-working kernel modules.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--resolve-names=</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Specify when systemd-udevd should resolve names of users and groups.
+ When set to <option>early</option> (the default) names will be
+ resolved when the rules are parsed. When set to
+ <option>late</option> names will be resolved for every event.
+ When set to <option>never</option> names will never be resolved
+ and all devices will be owned by root.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--version</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Print version number.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--help</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Print help text.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1><title>Environment</title>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>UDEV_LOG=</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Set the logging priority.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1><title>Kernel command line</title>
+ <variablelist>
+ <para>The parameters starting with "rd.", will be read when udev is used in an initrd.</para>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>udev.log-priority=</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>rd.udev.log-priority=</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Set the logging priority.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>udev.children-max=</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>rd.udev.children-max=</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Limit the number of parallel executed events.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>udev.exec-delay=</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>rd.udev.exec-delay=</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Number of seconds to delay the execution of RUN instructions.
+ This might be useful when debugging system crashes during coldplug
+ cause by loading non-working kernel modules.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>See Also</title>
+ <para><citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>udev</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>udevadm</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry></para>
+ </refsect1>
+</refentry>