hotplugd(1M) System Administration Commands hotplugd(1M)NAMEhotplugd - hotplug daemon
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/hotplugd [-d]
DESCRIPTION
The hotplug daemon, hotplugd, provides user-level services for the man‐
agement of hotplug connections. It is a system daemon started by the
Service Management Facility (see smf(5)). Its fault management resource
identifier (FMRI) is:
svc:/system/hotplug:default
Note that hotplugd is a Consolidation Private interface. See
attributes(5).
The hotplug(1M) command and any other client program that uses the pri‐
vate libhotplug library to query information about hotplug connections
or initiate hotplug commands depends upon this daemon. The hotplug dae‐
mon is a door server which services requests from all libhotplug
clients. The door interface is private.
Client applications use the private libhotplug interface to administer
hotplug connections. libhotplug uses the door interface to administer
hotplug connections through the hotplug daemon service. The hotplug
daemon acts as a central location to serialize all hotplug operations
and coordinate activities with all other parts of the system.
OPTIONS
The following option is supported:
-d, --debug
Run the daemon in standalone debug mode. Messages will be displayed
on the controlling terminal instead of to syslog. And increased
verbosity will be enabled to display more details about the inter‐
nal operations of the daemon.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Enabling the Hotplug Service
The following command enables the hotplug service:
# svcadm enable svc:/system/hotplug:default
Example 2 Disabling the Hotplug Service
The following command disables the hotplug service:
# svcadm disable svc:/system/hotplug:default
ERRORS
The hotplug daemon uses syslog(3C) to report status and error messages.
All of the messages are logged with the LOG_DAEMON facility. Error mes‐
sages are logged with the LOG_ERR and LOG_NOTICE priorities, and infor‐
mational messages are logged with the LOG_INFO priority. The default
entries in the /etc/syslog.conf file log all of the hotplug daemon
error messages to the /var/adm/messages log.
FILES
/var/run/hotplugd_door
Hotplug daemon door
/var/run/hotplugd_pid
Hotplug daemon lock file
/usr/lib/hotplugd
Hotplug daemon binary
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWcs, SUNWcs │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │Consolidation Private │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOsvcs(1), hotplug(1M), svcadm(1M), syslog(3C), syslog.conf(4),
attributes(5), smf(5)NOTES
The hotplugd service is managed by the service management facility,
smf(5), under the fault management resource identifier (FMRI):
svc:/system/hotplug:default
Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or
requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). The service's
status can be queried using the svcs(1) command. To administer the ser‐
vice, the authorization solaris.smf.manage.hotplug must be granted.
Alternatively, the rights profile "Hotplug Management" can be granted.
The hotplug service must be enabled for the hotplug(1M) command and any
other libhotplug client applications to function properly.
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