acpi_listen(8)

acpi_listen8

Acpi event listener

Usage

acpi_listen [options]

Overview

acpid is the system-wide ACPI event catcher. acpi_listen is a simple shell-friendly tool which connects to acpid and listens for events. When an event occurs, acpi_listen will print it on stdout.

Options

-c, --count events

Receive up to a maximum number of ACPI events, then exit.

-s, --socketfile filename

This option changes the name of the UNIX domain socket which acpid opens. Default is /var/run/acpid.socket.

-t, --time seconds

Listen for the specified time in seconds, before exiting.

-v, --version

Print version information and exit.

-h, --help

Show help and exit.

Files

/var/run/acpid.socket

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0–6.0
  4. 7–Arch

Bugs

There are no known bugs. To file bug reports, see AUTHORS below.

Authors

Ted Felix (www.tedfelix.com)
Tim Hockin <[email protected]>
Luca Capello <[email protected]>

From acpid 2.0.34-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.