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) 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 pro-
     perties. 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 mes-
                     sages 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



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System Administration Commands                           hald(1M)



       hal/usesyslog       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


ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
     Availability                 SUNWhalr                    
    
     Interface Stability          Volatile                    
    


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

























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