From: Michal Privoznik Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 16:55:00 +0000 (+0100) Subject: manpages: Remove reference to a session daemon for libxl X-Git-Tag: v7.2.0-rc1~149 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fd2bd98852f1098ad6e003d625c45afdaee2d069;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git manpages: Remove reference to a session daemon for libxl The libxl driver has no session daemon therefore its split daemon (virtxend) has to be ran as root. Any attempt to start it with euid != 0 fails. This is why the daemon does not look under any of XDG_* paths either. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani --- diff --git a/docs/manpages/virtxend.rst b/docs/manpages/virtxend.rst index 53592d24c0..f94ba80afa 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/virtxend.rst +++ b/docs/manpages/virtxend.rst @@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ On receipt of ``SIGHUP`` ``virtxend`` will reload its configuration. FILES ===== -When run as *root* ------------------- +The ``virtxend`` program must be ran as root. Trying to start the program under +a different user results in error. * ``@SYSCONFDIR@/libvirt/virtxend.conf`` @@ -124,31 +124,6 @@ The TLS **Server** private key ``virtxend`` will use. The PID file to use, unless overridden by the ``-p`` | ``--pid-file`` option. -When run as *non-root* ----------------------- - -* ``$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/libvirt/virtxend.conf`` - -The default configuration file used by ``virtxend``, unless overridden on the -command line using the ``-f``|``--config`` option. - -* ``$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/libvirt/virtxend-sock`` -* ``$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/libvirt/virtxend-admin-sock`` - -The sockets ``virtxend`` will use. - -* ``$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/libvirt/virtxend.pid`` - -The PID file to use, unless overridden by the ``-p``|``--pid-file`` option. - - -If ``$XDG_CONFIG_HOME`` is not set in your environment, ``virtxend`` will use -``$HOME/.config`` - -If ``$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`` is not set in your environment, ``virtxend`` will use -``$HOME/.cache`` - - EXAMPLES ========