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.Dd $Mdocdate: December 18 2016 $
.Dt TOADD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm toadd
.Nd
optical medium detection daemon for
.Xr toad 8
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Bk -words
.Op Fl d
.Op Fl w Ar wait
.Ek
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is an optical medium detection daemon that works in conjunction with the
.Xr toad 8
automounter.
It will detect the insertion of a medium in the optical drives of the machine
(maximum
.Em 2 )
by periodically reading their
.Xr disklabel 8 .
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl d
Do not daemonize.
If this option is specified,
.Nm
will run in the foreground and log to stderr.
.It Fl w Ar wait
Pause
.Ar wait
seconds between each device poll (max: 60).
If this option is omitted
.Nm
will poll every
.Em 8
seconds.
.El
.Pp
When a medium is inserted or ejected,
.Nm
will call
.Xr toad 8
with the
.Ar attach
or
.Ar detach
argument respectively.
.Pp
To start
.Nm
at boot time using the
.Xr rc.d 8
framework, the following variable can be added to
.Xr rc.conf.local 5 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
.Ev toadd_flags=
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr toad 8
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Antoine Jacoutot Aq Mt antoine@mtier.org
.Sh CAVEATS
Some drives are not meant to be polled this frequently and it may be
.Em possible to damage them
by using
.Nm .