From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: steved@redhat.com, chuck.lever@oracle.com
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] nfs-utils: update the nfsd manpage
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 07:43:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1243943029-6400-7-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243943029-6400-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com>
Add some clarification about the purpose of the program, info about the
--debug option, and a note about how it behaves when TI-RPC support is
built in.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
---
utils/nfsd/nfsd.man | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man b/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man
index 4eb3e21..94b041e 100644
--- a/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man
+++ b/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man
@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ The
program implements the user level part of the NFS service. The
main functionality is handled by the
.B nfsd
-kernel module; the user space program merely starts the specified
-number of kernel threads.
+kernel module. The user space program merely specifies what sort of sockets
+the kernel service should listen on, what NFS versions it should support, and
+how many kernel threads it should use.
.P
The
.B rpc.mountd
@@ -22,6 +23,11 @@ server provides an ancillary service needed to satisfy mount requests
by NFS clients.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
+.B \-d " or " \-\-debug
+enable debug log messages and log messages to stderr instead of syslog.
+By default, nfsd logs all messages to syslog, except for errors generated
+during option processing which go to stderr.
+.TP
.B \-H " or " \-\-host hostname
specify a particular hostname (or address) that NFS requests will
be accepted on. By default,
@@ -75,12 +81,19 @@ In particular
.B rpc.nfsd 0
will stop all threads and thus close any open connections.
+.SH NOTES
+If the program is built with TI-RPC support, it will enable any protocol and
+address family combinations that are marked visible in the
+.B netconfig
+database.
+
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR rpc.mountd (8),
.BR exports (5),
.BR exportfs (8),
.BR rpc.rquotad (8),
-.BR nfsstat (8).
+.BR nfsstat (8),
+.BR netconfig(5).
.SH AUTHOR
Olaf Kirch, Bill Hawes, H. J. Lu, G. Allan Morris III,
and a host of others.
--
1.6.0.6
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-02 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-02 11:43 [PATCH 0/6] nfs-utils: add IPv6 support for rpc.nfsd (try #4) Jeff Layton
2009-06-02 11:43 ` [PATCH 1/6] nfs-utils: don't link libexport.a and libmisc.a to nfsd Jeff Layton
2009-06-02 11:43 ` [PATCH 2/6] nfs-utils: clean up option parsing in nfsd.c Jeff Layton
2009-06-02 11:43 ` [PATCH 3/6] nfs-utils: break up nfssvc.c into more individually callable functions Jeff Layton
2009-06-02 15:32 ` Chuck Lever
2009-06-02 18:40 ` Jeff Layton
2009-06-02 11:43 ` [PATCH 4/6] nfs-utils: set IPV6_V6ONLY on nfssvc IPv6 sockets Jeff Layton
2009-06-02 11:43 ` [PATCH 5/6] nfs-utils: add IPv6 support to nfsd Jeff Layton
2009-06-02 15:35 ` Chuck Lever
2009-06-02 18:55 ` Jeff Layton
[not found] ` <20090602145537.04fdec57-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-02 19:13 ` Chuck Lever
2009-06-02 20:04 ` Jeff Layton
2009-06-02 11:43 ` Jeff Layton [this message]
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