---
name: "vdradmind"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "vdradmin-am"
version: "3.6.5-5"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/vdradmind"
---

# vdradmind(1)

Web-based administration tool for VDR

## NAME

vdradmind - Web-based administration tool for VDR

## SYNOPSIS

**vdradmind \[OPTION\]...**

## DESCRIPTION

**vdradmind** provides a webinterface for managing the Linux Video Disk Recorder (VDR), it has a virtual remote to control your VDR, you can view live-tv as a small slideshow, you can search for certain shows in the EPG....

By default  **vdradmind** will listen on port 8001.

**Note: Your VDR must be configured to be accessible via SVDRP from the machine, you run vdradmind from.**

## OPTIONS

- \--nofork / -n

  Do not fork on start of vdradmind. (vdradmind does not go into daemon-mode)

- \--config / -c

  Ask some questions, to interactively generate the config-file /etc/vdradmin/vdradmind.conf

- \--cfgdir dir/ -d dir

  Path to the directory containing the VDRAdmin-AM config files.

- \--kill / -k

  Kill a forked vdradmind.

- \--pid pidfile / -p pidfile

  Set the pidfile to use.

- \--help / -h

  Display a short message about the options of vdradmind.

## AUTHOR

This man-page has been written by Thomas Schmidt \<thomas@thsnet.de\> and has been updated by Andreas Mair \<andreas@vdr-developer.org\>.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 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.