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devd (8)
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NAME
devd
- device state change daemon
SYNOPSIS
[-Ddn
]
[-f file
]
DESCRIPTION
The
daemon provides a way to have userland programs run when certain
kernel events happen.
The following options are accepted.
-D
Enable debugging messages.
-d
Run in the foreground instead of becoming a daemon.
-f file
Use configuration file
file
instead of the default
/etc/devd.conf
If option
-f
is specified more than once, the last file specified is used.
-n
Do not process all pending events before becoming a daemon.
Instead, call daemon right away.
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The
utility
is a system daemon that runs in the background all the time.
Whenever a device is added to or removed from the device tree,
will execute actions specified in
devd.conf5.
For example,
might execute
dhclient(8)
when an Ethernet adapter is added to the system, and kill the
dhclient(8)
instance when the same adapter is removed.
Another example would be for
to use a table to locate and load via
kldload(8)
the proper driver for an unrecognized device that is added to the system.
The
utility
hooks into the
devctl(4)
device driver.
This device driver has hooks into the device configuration system.
When nodes are added or deleted from the tree, this device will
deliver information about the event to
.
Once
has parsed the message, it will search its action list for that kind
of event and perform the action with the highest matching value.
For most mundane uses, the default handlers are adequate.
However, for more advanced users, the power is present to tweak every
aspect of what happens.
The
utility
reads
/etc/devd.conf
or the alternate configuration file specified with a
-f
option and uses that file to drive the rest of the process.
While the format of this file is described in
devd.conf5,
some basics are covered here.
#include <the> options
section, one can define multiple directories to search
for config files.
All files in these directories whose names match the pattern
*.conf
are parsed.
These files are intended to be installed by third party vendors that
wish to hook into the
system without modifying the user's other
config files.
All messages that
receives are forwarded to the
UNIX
domain socket at
/var/run/devd.pipe
FILES
/etc/devd.conf
The default
configuration file.
/var/run/devd.pipe
The socket used by
to communicate with its clients.
