NAME¶
mdbus2 - Mickey's DBus introspection and interaction utility
SYNOPSIS¶
mdbus2 [OPTIONS...] [ busname [ objectpath [ method [ params... ] ] ] ]
DESCRIPTION¶
The
mdbus2 command is used to explore and interact with DBus services on
your system bus and session bus. Called without any parameters, it will show
the available services on the selected bus. Given a service name, it will show
the available objects exported by the service. Given a service name and an
object path, it will show the exposed methods, signals, and properties of that
object.
There are two well-known message buses: the systemwide message bus (installed on
many systems as the "messagebus" service) and the
per-user-login-session message bus (started each time a user logs in). The
--system option directs
mdbus2 to operate on the system bus rather than
the session bus.
mdbus2 has three modes: The introspection mode, the listening mode (-l),
and the interactive mode (-i). The interactive mode features readline command
completion and history.
The message bus configuration may keep
mdbus2 from seeing all messages,
especially if you run it as a non-root user.
OPTIONS¶
- --show-anonymous
- Include unique DBus names (:1.xyz) in the output.
- --show-pids
- Include PIDs in the output. (Only valid in introspection
mode)
- --listen
- Start in listening mode.
- --system
- Use the system bus rather than the session bus.
- --interactive
- Start in interactive mode.
EXAMPLE¶
Here is an example of using mdbus2 to listen to all signals on the session bus.
mdbus2 -s -l
AUTHOR¶
mdbus2 was written by Michael 'Mickey' Lauer.
BUGS¶
Please send bug reports to the freesmartphone.org issue tracker, see
http://trac.freesmartphone.org