opensolaris man page for hald

hald(1M)						  System Administration Commands						  hald(1M)

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) specifica-
       tion.

       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:

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

SEE ALSO
       svccfg(1M), attributes(5), hal(5), smf(5)

SunOS 5.11							    2 Jul 2008								  hald(1M)