# plymouthd

plymouthd

8 System Administration

plymouthd

The plymouth daemon

                            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