[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio --check command

John nesredep at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 11:23:24 PST 2008


On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 10.12.08 09:34, John (nesredep at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> When I type the command "pulseaudio --check" I get nothing.
>>
>> The man pages say simply "Check for a running daemon"; shouldn't there
>> be **some** response?!
>>
>> My pulseaudio seems to be working fine--I'm just trying to learn what's what.
>
> pulseaudio --check ; echo $?
>
> There you have your output!
>
> Welcome to Unix!
>
> Lennart

Thanks.  I don't suppose it would make sense to add "(only returns
exit code)" to the man pages, since it's the only pulseaudio command
that works this way?  At least, _I think_ everything else returns
stdout stuff I can read.  Just wondering...

John



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