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)