Man/vzeventd.8

NAME

vzeventd − the OpenVZ events daemon.

SYNOPSIS

vzeventd [-v] [-d]
vzeventd -h

OPTIONS

	-v		Increase verbosity (can be used multiple times).
	-d		Debug mode (do not daemonize, run in foreground).
	-h		Display help and exit.

DESCRIPTION

This daemon takes care of events sent by the OpenVZ kernel (via netlink socket) and performs required actions associated with those events, by running specific scripts. Every event received contains a container ID, which is passed to the script as VEID environment variable.

Current list of known events and associated vzeventd actions are:
start

Ignore.

stop

Run /usr/lib/vzctl/scripts/vzevent-stop. This script takes care of removing ARP and routing records for the given CT from CT0.

mount

Ignore.

umount

Ignore.

reboot

Run /usr/lib/vzctl/scripts/vzevent-reboot. This script takes care of rebooting a given CT.

RETURN CODE

Returns 0 upon success.

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2010, Parallels, Inc. Licensed under GNU GPL.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Thorsten Schifferdecker <tsd@debian.systs.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).