diff --git a/man/ganeti-luxid.rst b/man/ganeti-luxid.rst index 8d939735938245b8fe282fa2b4399d9534859120..1b748ac77d698632debcd2febe4b5d46652d856b 100644 --- a/man/ganeti-luxid.rst +++ b/man/ganeti-luxid.rst @@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- **ganeti-luxid** is a daemon used to answer queries related to the -configuration and the current live state of a Ganeti cluster. +configuration and the current live state of a Ganeti cluster. Additionally, +it is the autorative daemon for the Ganeti job queue. Jobs can be +submitted via this daemon and it schedules and starts them. For testing purposes, you can give the ``-f`` option and the program won't detach from the running terminal. @@ -28,9 +30,7 @@ passing in the ``--syslog`` option. The **ganeti-luxid** daemon listens on a Unix socket (``@LOCALSTATEDIR@/run/ganeti/socket/ganeti-query``) on which it exports -a ``Luxi`` endpoint, serving query operations only. Commands and tools -use this socket if the build-time option for split queries has been -enabled. +a ``Luxi`` endpoint supporting the full set of commands. The daemon will refuse to start if the user and group do not match the one defined at build time; this behaviour can be overridden by the @@ -43,13 +43,8 @@ allow failover in a two-node cluster, this can be overridden by the option has to be given as well. -ROLE -~~~~ - -The role of the query daemon is to answer queries about the (live) -cluster state without going through the master daemon. Only queries -which don't require locks can be handles by the query daemon, which -might lead to slightly outdated results in some cases. +Only queries which don't require locks can be handled by the luxi daemon, +which might lead to slightly outdated results in some cases. The config is reloaded from disk automatically when it changes, with a rate limit of once per second.