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PLYMOUTHD(8) System Administration PLYMOUTHD(8)

NAME

plymouthd - The plymouth daemon

SYNOPSIS

plymouthd [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

The plymouthd daemon is usually run out of the initrd. It does the heavy lifting of the plymouth system, logging the session and showing the splash screen.
The plymouth is used to send commands to plymouthd that control its behaviour.

OPTIONS

The following options are understood:
--help
Show summary of options.
--attach-to-session
Redirect console messages from screen to log.
--no-daemon
Do not daemonize.
--debug
Output debugging information.
--debug-file=STRING
File to write debugging information to.
--mode=MODE
Set mode to either boot or shutdown.
--pid-file=STRING
Write the PID of the daemon to a file.
--kernel-command-line=STRING
Fake kernel commandline to use.
--tty=STRING
TTY to ues instead of default.

SEE ALSO

grub(8), plymouth(8), plymouth(1), http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth
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