HALD(8) Maintenance Commands and Procedures HALD(8)

NAME

hald - daemon that supports hardware abstraction layer

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lib/hal/hald [--daemon={yes | no}]] [--help] [--use-syslog]
[--verbose={yes | no}] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

The hald daemon supports the recognition of hardware changes for
devices that conform to the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
specification.


The enabling and disabling of hald can be performed through the
service management facility (SMF) (see smf(7)). hald is managed using
the fault management resource identifier (FMRI) svc:/system/hal.
Options can be specified as SMF properties. See EXAMPLES.

OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

--daemon
Run as a daemon.


--help
Display usage information and exit.


--use-syslog
Display debug messages to syslog instead of stderr.
Use this option to record debug messages if HAL runs
as daemon.


--verbose
Display debug information.


--version
Display version information and exit.

EXAMPLES

Example 1: Specifying a Property

The following svccfg(8) command specifies the --verbose option.


example# svccfg
svc:> select hal
svc:/system/hal> listprop hal/*
hal/verbose boolean false
hal/use_syslog boolean false
svc:/system/hal> setprop hal/verbose=true
svc:/system/hal> exit

FILES

/usr/lib/hal
HAL-related files


/etc/hal/fdi
Device information files

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | Volatile |
+--------------------+-----------------+

SEE ALSO

attributes(7), hal(7), smf(7), svccfg(8)

July 2, 2008 HALD(8)