lircrcd (8) Linux Manual Page
lircrcd – daemon to handle consistent .lircrc state among client applications
Synopsis
lircrcd [options] config-file
Description
lircrcd reads the given .lircrc config file and synchronises the mode that the LIRC clients such as (irexec(1), irxevent(1) , etc.) are in. Using lircrcd has to be explicitly enabled in the lircrc config file by adding the following line at the beginning of the file:
- lircrc_class default
This must be done at the top-level file, not an included one. The lircrc_class string (here "default") could actually be anything; clients using the same string in their lircrc will be synchronized.
Options
-h–help- display help message
-v–version- display version
-p, –permission=mode- The –permission option gives the file permission of the Unix domain socket lircrcd creates on startup in octal representation. Read the documentation for chmod for further details. If no –permission option is given when the socket is created the default is to give only the user owning the file read and write permissions (0600 in octal representation).
-o, –output=socket- With the –output option you can select the Unix domain socket, which lircrcd will create. The default is to create a socket in VARRUNDIR (usually /var/run/lirc), see FILES.
Files
lircrcd creates its socket(s) in the VARRUNDIR directory, usually /var/run/lirc. The socket basename includes the user UID and the string from the lircrc_class option.
See Also
The documentation for lirc is maintained as html pages. They are located under html/ in the documentation directory.