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manpages: Remove reference to a session daemon for libxl

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The libxl driver has no session daemon therefore its split daemon
(virtxend) has to be ran as root. Any attempt to start it with
euid != 0 fails. This is why the daemon does not look under any
of XDG_* paths either.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
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Michal Privoznik 2021-03-08 17:55:00 +01:00
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@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ On receipt of ``SIGHUP`` ``virtxend`` will reload its configuration.
FILES
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When run as *root*
------------------
The ``virtxend`` program must be ran as root. Trying to start the program under
a different user results in error.
* ``@SYSCONFDIR@/libvirt/virtxend.conf``
@ -124,31 +124,6 @@ The TLS **Server** private key ``virtxend`` will use.
The PID file to use, unless overridden by the ``-p`` | ``--pid-file`` option.
When run as *non-root*
----------------------
* ``$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/libvirt/virtxend.conf``
The default configuration file used by ``virtxend``, unless overridden on the
command line using the ``-f``|``--config`` option.
* ``$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/libvirt/virtxend-sock``
* ``$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/libvirt/virtxend-admin-sock``
The sockets ``virtxend`` will use.
* ``$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/libvirt/virtxend.pid``
The PID file to use, unless overridden by the ``-p``|``--pid-file`` option.
If ``$XDG_CONFIG_HOME`` is not set in your environment, ``virtxend`` will use
``$HOME/.config``
If ``$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`` is not set in your environment, ``virtxend`` will use
``$HOME/.cache``
EXAMPLES
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