System Administration Commands                      syseventd(1M)



NAME
     syseventd - kernel system event notification daemon

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/lib/sysevent/syseventd [-d debuglevel] [-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 debuglevel    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/syseventddaemon.lock

         daemon lock file





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System Administration Commands                      syseventd(1M)



     /etc/sysevent/syseventdoor

         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


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



     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE 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 service's status can be  queried  using  the
     svcs(1) command.





SunOS 5.11           Last change: 6 Aug 2004                    2