<refentry id="upowerd.8">
  <refentryinfo>
    <title>upowerd</title>
    <date>April 2008</date>
    <productname>upowerd</productname>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>upowerd</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class="version"></refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>upowerd</refname>
    <refpurpose>UPower Daemon</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>upowerd</command>
      <arg><option>--help</option></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>


  <refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
    <para>
      <emphasis><refentrytitle>upowerd</refentrytitle></emphasis> provides
      the <emphasis>org.freedesktop.UPower</emphasis> service on the
      system message bus. Users or administrators should never need to
      start this daemon as it will be automatically started by
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
      whenever an application calls into the <emphasis>org.freedesktop.UPower</emphasis>
      service.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>OPTIONS</title>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--help</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Show help options.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1><title>AUTHOR</title>
    <para>
      Written by David Zeuthen <email>davidz@redhat.com</email> with
      a lot of help from many others.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>BUGS</title>
    <para>
      Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the
      DeviceKit mailing list,
      see <ulink url="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel"/>
      on how to subscribe.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
    <para>
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>UPower</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>upower</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>dbus-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
    </para>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>
