opensolaris man page for syseventd

syseventd(1M)						  System Administration Commands					     syseventd(1M)

NAME
       syseventd - kernel system event notification daemon

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/lib/sysevent/syseventd [-d debug_level] [-r rootdir]

DESCRIPTION
       syseventd  is a user-level daemon that accepts delivery of system event buffers from the kernel. Once an event buffer has been delivered to
       syseventd, it, in turn, attempts to propagate the event to all interested end event subscribers.

       Event subscribers take the form of a syseventd loadable module (SLM). syseventd passes the event buffer to each of its subscribers  and	in
       return expects a notification as to the successful or unsuccessful delivery attempt.

       Upon  successful  delivery  of the event buffer to all interested event subscribers, syseventd frees the event buffer from the kernel event
       queue.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       -d debug_level	 Enable debug mode. Messages are printed to the invoking user's terminal.

       -r rootdir	 Cause syseventd to use an alternate root path when creating its door and lock files. Modules continue to be  loaded  from
			 the standard module directories.

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values are returned:

       0	   Successful completion.

       non-zero    An error occurred.

FILES
       /etc/sysevent/syseventd_daemon.lock

	   daemon lock file

       /etc/sysevent/sysevent_door

	   kernel to syseventd door file

       /usr/lib/sysevent/modules

	   SLM directory repository

       /usr/platform/`uname --i`/lib/sysevent/modules

	   SLM directory repository

       /usr/platform/`uname --m`/lib/sysevent/modules

	   SLM directory repository

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO
       svcs(1), svcadm(1M), syseventconfd(1M), attributes(5), smf(5)

NOTES
       The syseventd service is managed by the service management facility, smf(5), under the service identifier:

	 svc:/system/sysevent:default

       Administrative  actions	on  this  service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). The ser-
       vice's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command.

SunOS 5.11							    6 Aug 2004							     syseventd(1M)