RENDERD(1)

💖 RENDERD(1) — bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk, this is the General Commands Manual page for renderd, and I'm about to make it make sense for you. pull up a chair, grab a boba 🧋, we're doing this.

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✨ NAME ✨

renderd — the rendering daemon for rendering OpenStreetMap tiles. she renders. that's the whole job. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

renderd [options]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this manual page documents, like, briefly, the renderd command. it's giving documentation. it's giving brevity.

renderd is a rendering daemon for map tiles, and she does it with the mapnik library. she receives render requests on a socket. then — and this is the part that's actually so smart — she queues those requests into a number of different queues to manage load, while rendering them with the mapnik library. queue management, no cap, it's the whole vibe.

by default, renderd will start as a daemon. and she will log information in the syslog. that's just where her thoughts go. 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

this program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-`). a summary of options is included below. yes bestie, every single one, I'm not skipping anybody 🫶

• -f|--foreground — run renderd in the foreground, for debugging purposes. main character energy, no hiding in the background, she's right there in your terminal where you can see her 👀
• -c|--config — set the location of the config file used to configure the various parameters of renderd, like the mapnik style sheet. the default is /etc/renderd.conf ⭐
• -s|--slave — renderd can be used in a distributed fashion across multiple rendering servers, and honestly? iconic. the master renderd handles the queuing and passes requests to the slaves. this parameter specifies which of the slave sections of renderd.conf applies to this instance of renderd. the default is to use the master section. so if you don't pass anything, congrats, you're the boss 💅
• -h|--help — print out a help text for renderd. she will literally tell you what to do. communication queen 🌈
• -V|--version — print out the version number for renderd. knowing your version is self-care, periodt 🎀

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• renderd.conf(5) — go read her sister page, iykyk

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

renderd was written by Jon Burgess, and other OpenStreetMap project members. absolute legends, fr fr.

this manual page was written by OpenStreetMap authors. 💖

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💀 reminder bestie: every flag above is real, every default above is real, and the default config path is exactly /etc/renderd.conf. don't go changing it in your head, okay? 🍓

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and that's the whole page!! mod_tile v0.8.1, dated 2024-03-16 — that's the version and the date, mwah, go render some tiles 🌸✨🦋