eudev/udev/udevd.xml
Scott James Remnant 5f03ed8a56 Allow user and group lookup to be disabled.
In certain cut-down situations such as an installer or inside the
initramfs, we simply don't have any kind of name service.  While we
could use rules without OWNER or GROUP, it's better to have the same
rules as a full system and have udevd ignore those parts of the rules.

Adds a --resolve-names=never switch to udevd that has this effect.
2009-01-20 21:33:02 +00:00

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<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
<article>
<section>
<title>udevd</title>
<refentry>
<refentryinfo>
<title>udevd</title>
<date>August 2005</date>
<productname>udev</productname>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>udevd</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="version"></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>udevd</refname><refpurpose>event managing daemon</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>udevd</command>
<arg><option>--daemon</option></arg>
<arg><option>--debug-trace</option></arg>
<arg><option>--debug</option></arg>
<arg><option>--version</option></arg>
<arg><option>--resolve-names=early|never</option></arg>
<arg><option>--help</option></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>udevd listens to kernel uevents and passes the incoming events to
udev. It ensures the correct event order and takes care, that events for child
devices are delayed until the parent event has finished the device handling.
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-trace</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Run all events completely serialized. This may be useful if udev triggers
actions or loads kernel modules which cause problems and a slow but continuous
operation is needed, where no events are processed in parallel.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--debug</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Print debug messages to stderr.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--resolve-names</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Specify when 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>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><option>UDEV_LOG</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Overrides the syslog priority specified in the config file.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>AUTHOR</title>
<para>Written by Kay Sievers <email>kay.sievers@vrfy.org</email>.</para>
</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>
</section>
</article>