PLYMOUTHD(8)

NAME
plymouthd - The plymouth daemon

SYNOPSIS

plymouthd [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

The plymouthd daemon is usually run out of the initrd. It does the heavy lifting of the plymouth system, logging the session and showing the splash screen.

The plymouth is used to send commands to plymouthd that control its behaviour.

OPTIONS

The following options are understood:

--help
    Show summary of options.

--attach-to-session
    Redirect console messages from screen to log.

--no-daemon
    Do not daemonize.

--debug
    Output debugging information.

--debug-file=STRING
    File to write debugging information to.

--mode=MODE
    Set mode to either boot or shutdown.

--pid-file=STRING
    Write the PID of the daemon to a file.

--kernel-command-line=STRING
    Fake kernel commandline to use.

--tty=STRING
    TTY to use instead of default.

SEE ALSO

grub(8), plymouth(8), plymouth(1), http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth