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Manpages PMSDSection: Maintenance Commands (8)Updated: 25 March 1996 Index Return to Main Contents NAMEpmsd - Periodically Manic System Daemon. Manages the bizzare and sometimes unexplainable behavior exhibited by computers.SYNOPSISpmsd [-bcfmp]DESCRIPTIONpmsd is a rogue daemon that is spawned on a semi-regular schedule by init(8). Most of the unusual and quirky behavior associated with misbehaving computers can be attributed to pmsd. pmsd has a number of command-line options, invoked at run-time by init(8). The ps(1) command will occasionally display the current options, but only if pmsd feels like revealing them. This is usually not the case. pmsd can be manually invoked by the pms(8) command. Make sure there is not a pmsd process already running when you use pms(8); you don't want to be on a system with multiple instances of pmsd running. With no flags, pmsd runs with the default -m option, and any others it feels like using. OPTIONS
NOTESWhen pmsd is invoked by using the pms(8) command, pmsd ignores any command-line switches and does what it damned well pleases.SEE ALSOpms(8)BUGSThere are no bugs; how could you ask that?HISTORYWritten by Eric L. Pederson <eric@bofh.org.uk>.
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