---
name: "webcamd"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "webcamd"
version: "0.7.6+repack0-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/webcamd"
---

# webcamd(1)

Take a image from your webcam

## NAME

webcamd - Take a image from your webcam

## SYNOPSIS

**webcamd** \[ **start \| stop \| refresh** \]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **webcamd** daemon.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**webcamd** is a program that take images from your webcam and put it on a ftp server on a local (web) directory

## OPTIONS

- **start**

  Start the daemon.

- **stop**

  Stop the daemon.

- **refresh**

  Take a shot !

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Julien Danjou \<acid@debian.org\> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.