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seatd-launch(1) General Commands Manual seatd-launch(1) NAME seatd-launch - Start a process with its own seatd instance SYNOPSIS seatd-launch [options] [--] command OPTIONS -l <loglevel> Log-level to pass to seatd. See seatd(1) for information about avail- able log-levels. -h Show help message and quit. -v Show the version number and quit. DESCRIPTION seatd-launch starts a seatd instance with a dedicated socket path, waits for it to be ready, and starts the specified command with SEATD_SOCK set appropriately. Once the specified command terminates, the seatd instance is also terminated. seatd requires root privileges to perform its tasks. This can be achieved through SUID of seatd-launch or by running seatd-launch as root. seatd- launch will drop privileges from the effective user to the real user before running the specified command. If the real user is root, this is simply a noop. You should only run seatd-launch as root if you intend for the speci- fied command to run as root as well. seatd-launch serves a similar purpose to the libseat "builtin" backend, but is superior to it for two reasons: 1. The specified command never runs as root 2. The standard seatd executable and libseat backend is used EXIT STATUS seatd-launch exits with the status of its child. When the child terminates on a signal N, seatd-launch exits with the status 128 + N. If seatd-launch fails because of another error, it exits with a non-zero status. SEE ALSO The libseat library, <libseat.h>, seatd(1) AUTHORS Maintained by Kenny Levinsen <contact@kl.wtf>, who is assisted by other open-source contributors. For more information about seatd development, see https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd. 2026-07-30 seatd-launch(1)
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