NAME

keyboard-daemon —

read from a keyboard device node and execute commands

SYNOPSIS

keyboard-daemon [-Vdv] [-f config_file] ⟨device_node⟩

The keyboard-daemon utility attaches to a given ⟨device_node⟩ and reads keypresses from it.

The options are as follows:

-V: Return the version of keyboard-daemon.
-d: Daemonize (run in background).
-v: Verbose mode (useful for finding scan codes).
-f config_file: Specify an alternative configuration file. The default is for /usr/local/etc/keyboard-daemon.conf.
-p pidfile: Specify a pidfile. This only takes effect if -d is specified.

Before starting keyboard-daemon, the target ⟨device_node⟩ must be disconnected from the kbdmux(4) using kdbcontrol(1), for example using FreeBSD:

# kbdcontrol -A device_node <
  /dev/console

This is performed automatically when using the FreeBSD rc script.

The keyboard-daemon utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

Chris Rees ⟨crees@FreeBSD.org⟩