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(5)). 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(1M) 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(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

See Also

svccfg(1M), attributes(5), hal(5)