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author | Karel Zak | 2012-07-11 18:00:09 +0200 |
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committer | Karel Zak | 2012-07-11 18:00:09 +0200 |
commit | 815427c72e5c4a18097e31d056459cc77e512e27 (patch) | |
tree | 1f2b3e351fb5e1f07ad0bd0fc43b0e7b4484179d /misc-utils/uuidd.8.in | |
parent | swapon: fix --summary output regression (diff) | |
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build-sys: add missing files
Reported-by: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/misc-utils/uuidd.8.in b/misc-utils/uuidd.8.in new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f35a41eef --- /dev/null +++ b/misc-utils/uuidd.8.in @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +.\" -*- nroff -*- +.\" Copyright 2007 by Theodore Ts'o. All Rights Reserved. +.\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License. +.\" +.TH UUIDD 8 "June 2011" "util-linux" "System Administration" +.SH NAME +uuidd \- UUID generation daemon +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B uuidd +.RI [ options ] +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B uuidd +daemon is used by the UUID library to generate +universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), especially time-based UUIDs, +in a secure and guaranteed-unique fashion, even in the face of large +numbers of threads running on different CPUs trying to grab UUIDs. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.B \-d +Run uuidd in debugging mode. This prevents uuidd from running as a daemon. +.TP +.BR \-h , " \-\-help " +Display help screen and exit. +.TP +.BR \-k , " \-\-kill " +If currently a uuidd daemon is running, kill it. +.TP +.BR \-n , " \-\-uuids " \fInumber\fR +When issuing a test request to a running uuidd, request a bulk response +of +.I number +UUIDs. +.TP +.BR \-p , " \-\-pid " \fIpath\fR +Specify the pathname where the pid file should be written. By default, +the pid file is written to @localstatedir@/uuidd/uuidd.pid. +.TP +.BR \-P , " \-\-no-pid " +Do not create pid file. +.TP +.BR \-F , " \-\-no-fork " +Do not daemonize using double-fork. +.TP +.BR \-S , " \-\-socket-activation " +Do not create the socket and instead expect it to be provided by the calling +process. Implies --no-fork and --no-pid. As of this writing, this option is +supposed to be used only with systemd. This option must be enabled with a configure +option. +.TP +.B \-q +Suppress some failure messages. +.TP +.BR \-r , " \-\-random " +Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and +request it to return a random-based UUID. +.TP +.BR \-s , " \-\-socket " \fIpath\fR +Specify the pathname used for the unix-domain socket used by uuidd. By +default, the pathname used is @localstatedir@/uuidd/request. This is primarily +for debugging purposes, since the pathname is hard-coded in the libuuid +library. +.TP +.BR \-T , " \-\-timeout " \fItimeout\fR +Specify a timeout for uuidd. If specified, then uuidd will exit after +.I timeout +seconds of inactivity. +.TP +.BR \-t , " \-\-time " +Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and +request it to return a time-based UUID. +.TP +.BR \-V , " \-\-version " +Output version information and exit. +.SH EXAMPLE +Start up a daemon, print 42 random keys, and then stop the daemon. +.PP +.RS +.nf +uuidd -p /tmp/uuidd.pid -s /tmp/uuidd.socket +uuidd -d -r -n 42 -s /tmp/uuidd.socket +uuidd -d -k -s /tmp/uuidd.socket +.nf +.RE +.SH AUTHOR +The +.B uuidd +daemon was written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>. +.SH AVAILABILITY +The uuidd daemon is part of the util-linux package and is available from +ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR uuid (3), +.BR uuidgen (1) |