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.TH vzeventd 8 "28 Jun 2011" "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
a container ID, which is passed to the script as \fBVEID\fR environment
variable.
.P
Current list of known events and associated \fBvzeventd\fR actions are:
.TP
.B start
Ignore.
.TP
.B stop
Run /usr/lib/vzctl/scripts/vzevent-stop. This script takes care of removing
ARP and routing records for the given CT from CT0.
.TP
.B mount
Ignore.
.TP
.B umount
Ignore.
.TP
.B reboot
Run /usr/lib/vzctl/scripts/vzevent-reboot. This script 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) 2010-2011, 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).