1.\" Copyright (c) 2012 The FreeBSD Foundation 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This software was developed by Edward Tomasz Napierala under sponsorship 5.\" from the FreeBSD Foundation. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" $FreeBSD$ 29.\" 30.Dd September 20, 2012 31.Dt ISCSID 8 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm iscsid 35.Nd iSCSI initiator daemon 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm 38.Op Fl P Ar pidfile 39.Op Fl d 40.Op Fl l Ar loglevel 41.Op Fl m Ar maxproc 42.Op Fl t Ar seconds 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46daemon is responsible for performing the Login Phase of iSCSI connections, 47as well as performing SendTargets discovery. 48.Pp 49Upon startup, the 50.Nm 51daemon opens the iSCSI initiator device file and waits for kernel requests. 52It doesn't use any configuration file; all the information it needs it gets 53from the kernel. 54.Pp 55When the 56.Nm 57damon is not running, already established iSCSI connections continue 58to work. 59However, establishing new connections, or recovering existing ones in case 60of connection error, is not possible. 61.Pp 62The following options are available: 63.Bl -tag -width ".Fl P Ar pidfile" 64.It Fl P Ar pidfile 65Specify alternative location of a file where main process PID will be stored. 66The default location is 67.Pa /var/run/iscsid.pid . 68.It Fl d 69Debug mode. 70The server sends verbose debug output to standard error, and does not 71put itself in the background. 72The server will also not fork and will exit after processing one connection. 73This option is only intended for debugging the initiator. 74.It Fl l Ar loglevel 75Specifies debug level. 76The default is 0. 77.It Fl m Ar maxproc 78Specifies limit for concurrently running child processes handling 79connections. 80The default is 30. 81Setting it to 0 disables the limit. 82.It Fl t Ar seconds 83Specifies timeout for login session, after which the connection 84will be forcibly terminated. 85The default is 60. 86Setting it to 0 disables the timeout. 87.El 88.Sh FILES 89.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /var/run/iscsid.pid" -compact 90.It Pa /dev/iscsi 91The iSCSI initiator device file. 92.It Pa /var/run/iscsid.pid 93The default location of the 94.Nm 95PID file. 96.El 97.Sh EXIT STATUS 98The 99.Nm 100utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 101.Sh SEE ALSO 102.Xr iscsictl 8 103.Sh HISTORY 104The 105.Nm 106command appeared in 107.Fx 10.0 . 108.Sh AUTHORS 109The 110.Nm 111was developed by 112.An Edward Tomasz Napierala Aq trasz@FreeBSD.org 113under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation. 114