ISCSID(8)

💖 ISCSID(8) 💖

Linux Administrator's Manual 📖 ✨ okay bestie, this is the page for the daemon that runs the iSCSI control path. Let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

iscsid - Open-iSCSI daemon 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

iscsid [OPTION]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so iscsid handles the control path of the iSCSI protocol, and it also comes with some management facilities 💅 It's giving background boss energy. For example, you can configure it to automatically restart discovery at startup, using whatever is stored in the persistent iSCSI database 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• [-c|--config=]config-file — the config file to read 📝 It's whatever you pass in, instead of the default /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf.
• [-i|--initiatorname=]iname-file — the file to pull the initiator name from 🌸 Instead of the default /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi, use this one.
• [-f|--foreground] — runs iscsid in the foreground 🦋 This one implies --no-pid-file, so no pid file for you.
• [-d|--debug=]debug_level — prints debugging info 🙈 Valid values for debug_level are 0 to 8.
• [-u|--uid=]uid — runs under user ID uid 👑 The default is whatever your current user ID is.
• [-g|--gid=]gid — runs under user group ID gid 🧚 The default is your current user group ID.
• [-n|--no-pid-file] — skips writing a process ID file 💀 This one clashes with the --pid= option, so pick one bestie.
• [-p|--pid=]pid-file — writes the process ID to pid-file instead of the default /run/iscsid.pid 🍓 This conflicts with the --no-pid-file option, so don't use both.
• [-h|--help] — shows this help and exits 💜
• [-v|--version] — shows the version and exits ✨

✨ FILES ✨

• /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf — the config file that both iscsid and iscsiadm read on startup 🎀
• /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi — the file with the iSCSI initiatorname and initiatoralias, which iscsid and iscsiadm both read on startup 🫶
• /var/lib/iscsi/nodes — the Open-iSCSI persistent configuration database 🗂️

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

iscsiadm(8) 🔥 go check that one out next, it's the vibe 💅

✨ AUTHORS ✨

• Open-iSCSI project <http://www.open-iscsi.com/> 🌈
• Alex Aizman <itn780@yahoo.com> 🦋
• Dmitry Yusupov <dmitry_yus@yahoo.com> 💖

That's the whole ISCSID(8) tea, bestie! 🌸 It's from July 2005 and it's still the page that gets the job done ✨😭🫶