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6 wickedd - network management daemon
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9 wickedd [options]
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12 wickedd provides a service for managing network interfaces. It monitors
13 the system's interfaces by retrieving relevant information from the
14 kernel via netlink, sysfs and other interfaces.
15 It can be accessed via a DBus service, which can be used to reconfigure
17 interfaces, bring them up or take them down.
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20 Additionally to the main wickedd daemon, wicked framework provides sev‐
21 eral helper daemons and supplicants:
22 ┌──────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
24 │Component │ Description │
25 ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
26 │wickedd-nanny │ Event driven policy daemon responsible for hotplugging. │
27 │wickedd-dhcp6 │ DHCPv6 client supplicant │
28 │wickedd-dhcp4 │ DHCPv4 client supplicant │
29 │wickedd-auto4 │ IPv4 autoip supplicant │
30 └──────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
31 Further, it communicates also with external supplicants:
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34 │Supplicant │ Description │
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36 │wpa-supplicant │ Wireless (WPA) support │
37 └───────────────┴────────────────────────┘
39 --help Show available options and exit.
40 --version
42 Show name and version.
43 --config filename
45 By default, the daemon reads its configuration from
46 /etc/wicked/server.xml. The --config options allows you to spec‐
47 ify a different configuration file.
48 --debug facility
50 Enable debugging for facility. By specifying most as the debug
51 facility, most useful debug options will be enabled. You can
52 also specify several facilities, separated by commas. Prepend‐
53 ing a minus will turn off the specified facility. For instance,
54 to enable all debugging facilities except reporting of events,
55 use "all,-events".
56 The list of available facilities can be obtained using "--debug
58 help".
59 --log-level level
61 Set log level to one of <error|warning|notice|info|debug>.
62 --log-target target
64 Set log target to one of <stderr|syslog>, optionally followed by
65 a colon and target specific details.
66 stderr[:options] with the following options:
68 pid include program pid in each message
69 syslog[:facility[:options]] with following facilities:
71 user, daemon, local0 .. local7
72 and options:
73 perror log the message to stderr as well
74 --foreground
77 Tell the daemon to not background itself at startup.
78 --recover
80 By default, wickedd does not read previously saved state when
81 starting. With this options set, wickedd will load any saved
82 state and recover valid address configuration.
83 --systemd
85 Forces wickedd to use the syslog target for logging. This also
86 forces wickedd to not report any transient return codes.
87 FILES
90 /etc/wicked/server.xml
92 specifies the global configuration of the daemon. This file may
93 pull in additional configuration data from the same directory.
94 /run/wicked/wicked.pid
96 Location of the PID file written by the daemon when background‐
97 ing itself. The pid directory be changed in the configuration
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101 wicked(8), wicked-config(5), wicked(5).
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104 Copyright (C) 2014 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
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107 Please report bugs at <https://bugzilla.novell.com/index.cgi>
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110 Olaf Kirch
111 16 July 2012 WICKEDD(8)