PLYMOUTHD(8)

🌸 PLYMOUTHD(8) 🌸

okay so real talk, this is the manual page for plymouthd, and it lives in the System Administration section of the manual. yes bestie, that System Administration. administrative icon behavior 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

plymouthd — the plymouth daemon, aka the main character of your boot sequence 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

plymouthd [OPTION...]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The plymouthd daemon is usually run out of the initrd. like, that's just where it lives, that's its home. it does the heavy lifting of the plymouth system — logging the session and showing the splash screen. that's the whole vibe: log the session, show the splash, carry the team 🫶

The plymouth is used to send commands to plymouthd that control its behaviour. so plymouth is the one talking, plymouthd is the one doing. iykyk ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

The following options are understood — memorize them, they're lowkey all useful:

• --help — show summary of options. the classic "wait what does this do again" button 🙈
• --attach-to-session — redirect console messages from screen to log. screen said "not today," log said "i'll take it" 💅
• --no-daemon — do not daemonize. stay in the foreground, be present, be perceived 👀
• --debug — output debugging information. for when you need to know why bestie 😭
• --debug-file=STRING — file to write debugging information to. you pick the destination, it just writes 🍓
• --mode=MODE — set mode to either boot or shutdown. literally just those two, no in-between eras ✨
• --pid-file=STRING — write the PID of the daemon to a file. put the number somewhere safe 🎀
• --kernel-command-line=STRING — fake kernel commandline to use. yes, fake it. pretend era 🌈
• --tty=STRING — TTY to use instead of default. custom tty, custom vibe 🦋

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

go read these next, bestie, they're all connected:

• grub(8)
• plymouth(8)
• plymouth(1)
• http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth — the wiki, the lore, the source 🌐

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heads up: --kernel-command-line=STRING is explicitly described as a fake kernel commandline to use. that's what it says, that's what it does, i'm not adding lore 💀

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okay that's the whole page!! this one came from plymouth and it's filed under PLYMOUTHD(8) in the manual — mwah, go show your splash screen some love 🔥👑💜