Manpages - genl.8
NAME
genl - generic netlink utility frontend
SYNOPSIS
genl [ -s[*tatistics*] ] [ -d[*etails*] ] [ -r[*aw*] ] OBJECT
genl { -V[*ersion*] | -h[*elp*] }
OBJECT := { ctrl CTRL_OPTS }
CTRL_OPTS := { help | list | monitor | get PARMS }
PARMS := { name NAME | id ID }
DESCRIPTION
The genl utility provides a simple frontend to the generic netlink library. Although it’s designed to support multiple /OBJECT/s, for now only the ctrl object is available, which is used to query the generic netlink controller.
ctrl
The generic netlink controller can be queried in various ways:
- help
- This command just prints a help text for the ctrl object.
- list
- Show the registered netlink users.
- monitor
- Listen for generic netlink notifications.
- get
- Query the controller for a given user, identified either by name or id.
OPTIONS
genl supports the following options.
- -h, -help
- Show summary of options.
- -V, -Version
- Show version of program.
- -s, -stats, -statistics
- Show object statistics.
- -d, -details
- Show object details.
- -r, -raw
- Dump raw output only.
SEE ALSO
*ip*(8)
AUTHOR
genl was written by Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>.
This manual page was written by Petr Sabata <contyk@redhat.com>.