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/usr/bin/oddjobd

D-Bus service which performs particular tasks for clients which connect to it and issue requests using the system-wide message bus.

From oddjob 0.34.7-r3 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running oddjobd --help (exit 1). permalink

/usr/bin/oddjobd: invalid option -- '-'
Usage: oddjobd [-d] [-n] [-p pidfile] [-c configfile] [-S] [-t timeout]
Options (6)
OptionDescriptionSource
-nDo not fork and become a daemon process.man
-dPrint debugging messages to stderr.man
-p pidfileStore the daemon's process ID in the named file.man
-c /etc/oddjobd.confRead the daemon's configuration from the named file.man
-SConnect to the session bus instead of the system bus.man
-t timeoutSpecifies the amount of time which will pass between attempts to reconnect to the bus if oddjobd is disconnected for any reason.man

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