---
name: "pdudaemon"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "pdudaemon"
version: "0.0.8.58.g597052b-1+deb12u1"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pdudaemon/8"
---

# pdudaemon(8)

Daemon to queue PDU requests from pduclient.

## NAME

pdudaemon - Daemon to queue PDU requests from pduclient.

## SYNOPSIS

**pdudaemon** \[**--logfile=***LOGFILE*\] \[**--loglevel=LOGLEVEL**\]

**pdudaemon** \[{**-h** \| **--help**}\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **pdudaemon** command.

**pdudaemon** is a daemon which listens on port 16421 for instructions from the pduclient. These commands are added to a temporary database which lavapdu-runner uses as a FIFO queue.

## OPTIONS

- **--logfile=***LOGFILE*

  Changes the logfile used by pdudaemon. By default this would be /var/log/lavapdu-listener.log

- **--loglevel=***LOGLEVEL*

  Changes the logging level used by pdudaemon. By default this would be *INFO*. For more content, use *DEBUG*.

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show summary of options.

## FILES

/etc/pdudaemon/pdudaemon.conf

The system-wide configuration file to control the behaviour of pdudaemon.

## SEE ALSO

[**pduclient**(1)](/pduclient/1.md)

## AUTHOR

**Matthew Hart** \<matt@mattface.org\>

Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 Matthew Hart\

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.