podman-varlink man page
podman-varlink — Runs the varlink backend interface Starts the varlink service listening on uri that allows varlink clients to interact with podman. If no uri is provided, a default URI will be used depending on the user calling the varlink service. The default for the root user is Run the podman varlink service accepting all default options. Run the podman varlink service with an alternate URI and accept the default timeout. Run the podman varlink service manually with a 5 second timeout. Users of the podman varlink service should enable the io.podman.socket and io.podman.service. This is the preferred method for running the varlink service. You can do this via systemctl. April 2018, Originally compiled by Brent Baudebbaude@redhat.com ⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩Synopsis
podman varlink [options] uri
Description
unix:/run/podman/io.podman
. Regular users will have a default uri of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/podman/io.podman
. For example, unix:/run/user/1000/podman/io.podman
The varlink service should generally be done with systemd. See Configuration below.Options
Examples
$ podman varlink
$ podman varlink unix:/tmp/io.podman
$ podman varlink --timeout 5000
Configuration
$ systemctl enable --now io.podman.socket
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