ISCSID
Section: Linux Administrator's Manual (8)
Updated: July 2005
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NAME
iscsid - Open-iSCSI daemon
SYNOPSIS
iscsid
[OPTION]
DESCRIPTION
The
iscsid
implements the control path of iSCSI protocol, plus some management
facilities. For example, the daemon could be configured to automatically
re-start discovery at startup, based on the contents of persistent
iSCSI database.
OPTIONS
- [-c|--config=]config-file
-
Read configuration from config-file rather than the default
/etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf file.
- [-i|--initiatorname=]iname-file
-
Read initiator name from iname-file rather than the default
/etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi file.
- [-f|--foreground]
-
run
iscsid
in the foreground.
- [-d|--debug=]debug_level
-
print debugging information. Valid values for debug_level are 0 to 8.
- [-u|--uid=]uid
-
run under user ID uid (default is the current user ID)
- [-g|--gid=]gid
-
run under user group ID gid (default is the current user group ID).
- [-n|--no-pid-file]
-
do not write a process ID file.
- [-p|--pid=]pid-file
-
write process ID to pid-file rather than the default
/run/iscsid.pid
- [-h|--help]
-
display this help and exit
- [-v|--version]
-
display version and exit.
FILES
- /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf
-
The configuration file read by
iscsid
and
iscsiadm
on startup.
- /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi
-
The file containing the iSCSI initiatorname
and initiatoralias read by
iscsid
and
iscsiadm
on startup.
- /var/lib/iscsi/nodes
-
Open-iSCSI persistent configuration database
SEE ALSO
iscsiadm(8)
AUTHORS
Open-iSCSI project <
http://www.open-iscsi.com/>
Alex Aizman <
itn780@yahoo.com>
Dmitry Yusupov <
dmitry_yus@yahoo.com>