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 # acpi_actor
 A Syndicate actor for publishing Linux ACPI events as well as an example of interacting with Linux generic netlink sockets in pure Nim (Linux C headers aside).
 
-Not very useful. I thought that I would get battery capacity information over netlink but apparently that information is polled from files in /sys despite any stated deprecations.
+A configuration example is provide at [example-config.pr](./example-config.pr).
 
-The lesson learned is that Netlink is of the sort of quality to be expected from the Linux kernel.
+Not very useful. I thought that I would get battery capacity information over netlink but apparently that information is polled from files in /sys despite any stated deprecations.
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+<require-service <daemon acpi_actor>>
+
+<daemon acpi_actor {
+  argv: ["/bin/acpi_actor"]
+  protocol: application/syndicate
+}>
+
+? <machine-dataspace ?machine> [
+
+  ? <service-object <daemon acpi_actor> ?cap> [
+    $cap { machine: $machine }
+  ]
+
+  $machine ?? <acpi_event ?class ?bus ?type ?data> [
+    $log ! <log "-" { acpi_event: { device: $class bus-id: $bus type: $type data: $data } }>
+  ]
+
+]