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.TH vzeventd 8 "7 Apr 2015" "OpenVZ" "Containers"
.SH NAME
vzeventd \- the OpenVZ events daemon.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.SY vzeventd
.OP \-v
.OP \-d
.YS
.SY vzeventd
.B \-h
.YS
.SH DESCRIPTION
This daemon takes care of events sent by the OpenVZ kernel
(via a netlink socket) and performs required actions associated with
those events, by running specific scripts. Every event received contains
an event name and a container ID.
.P
For every known event, the event script @SCRIPTDIR@/vzevent-\fIevent_name\fR
is executed, with container ID being passed to the script as
\fBVEID\fR environment variable. Not-existent events scripts are ignored.
All unknown events are ignored but logged.
.TP
The following events are recognized:
.br
.B \(bu start
.br
.B \(bu stop
.br
.B \(bu mount
.br
.B \(bu umount
.br
.B \(bu reboot
.P
The following event scripts are provided:
.TP
.B vzevent-stop
Takes care of removing ARP and routing records for the given CT from CT0.
.TP
.B vzevent-reboot
Takes care of rebooting a given CT.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-v
Increase verbosity (can be used multiple times).
.TP
.B \-d
Debug mode (do not daemonize, run in foreground).
.TP
.B -h
Display help and exit.
.SH EXIT STATUS
Returns 0 upon success.
.SH LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2010-2015, Parallels, Inc. Licensed under GNU GPL.
.SH AUTHOR
.PP
This manual page was initially written by Thorsten Schifferdecker
<tsd@debian.systs.org>
for the \fBDebian GNU/Linux\fP system (but may be used by others).