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  10 <h1>Daemon</h1>
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  12 <h2>Command Line Arguments</h2>
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  14 The <tt>polypaudio</tt> daemon accepts several command line arguments:
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  16 <p><tt>-L MODULE</tt>: Load the specified module. This option may be specified more than once.</p>
  17 <p><tt>-F FILE</tt>: Run the specified script. This option may be specified more than once.</p>
  18 <p><tt>-C</tt>: Load the module <a href="modules.html#module-cli"><tt>module-cli</tt></a> after startup.</p>
  19 <p><tt>-D</tt>: Daemonize after successfully executing all scripts and loading all modules.</p>
  20 <p><tt>-f</tt>: Unless this option is given the daemon will terminate if any of the specified modules failed to load or the script didn't execute successfully.</p>
  21 <p><tt>-v</tt>: Increase the verbosity of the daemon.</p>
  22 <p><tt>-h</tt>: Show a quick help.</p>
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  24 <h3>Example</h3>
  25
  26 <p>It is a good idea to run the daemon like this:</p>
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  28 <pre>polypaudio -D -F /etc/polypaudio/polypaudio.pa</pre>
  29
  30 <p><tt>/etc/polypaudio/polypaudio.pa</tt> should be a script written in the CLI language described in <a href="cli.html">cli.html</a>
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  32 <h2>Signals</h2>
  33
  34 <p>The following signals are trapped specially:</p>
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  36 <h3>SIGINT</h3>
  37
  38 <p>The daemon is shut down cleanly.</p>
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  40 <h3>SIGUSR1</h3>
  41
  42 <p>The daemon tries to load the module <a href="modules.html#module-cli"><tt>module-cli</tt></a>, effectively providing a command line interface on the calling TTY.</p>
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  44 <h3>SIGUSR2</h3>
  45
  46 <p>The daemon tries to load the module <a href="modules.html#module-cli-protocol-unix"><tt>module-cli-protocol-unix</tt></a>, effectively providing a command line interface on a special UNIX domain socket.</p>
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  49 <address class="grey">Lennart Poettering &lt;@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@&gt;, July 2004</address>
  50 <div class="grey"><i>$Id$</i></div>
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