<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >The LCDproc Server - LCDd</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="LCDproc User's Guide" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="c44.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="What is LCDproc?" HREF="x57.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE='The LCDproc "Main" Client - lcdproc' HREF="x75.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >LCDproc User's Guide: The Ultimate Guide to LCDproc 0.4.3</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x57.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Introduction</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x75.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="LCDD" ></A >The LCDproc Server - LCDd</H1 ><P ><TT CLASS="APPLICATION" >LCDd</TT > is one of those well known *NIX daemons. BUT it's not just *one* daemon. It's the one that is supposed to drive your LCD ;)</P ><P ><TT CLASS="APPLICATION" >LCDd</TT > can either be run from the command line or automatically by the init scripts shipped with the distribution.</P ><P >As other daemons, <TT CLASS="APPLICATION" >LCDd</TT > has to be configured. In this respect a lot has changed since LCDproc 0.4.1. While LCDd retrieved all its configuration settings from the command line in 0.4.1, it now has a configuration file, which is normally <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/LCDd.conf</TT >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x57.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x75.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >What is LCDproc?</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c44.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >The LCDproc "Main" Client - lcdproc</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >