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From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: chuck.lever@oracle.com, steved@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH 10/10] nfs-utils: update the nfsd manpage
Date: Wed,  3 Jun 2009 15:52:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244058763-10352-11-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244058763-10352-1-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.
-- 
1.6.2.2


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-03 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-03 19:52 [PATCH 00/10] nfs-utils: add IPv6 support to rpc.nfsd (try #5) Jeff Layton
2009-06-03 19:52 ` [PATCH 01/10] nfs-utils: don't link libexport.a and libmisc.a to nfsd Jeff Layton
2009-06-03 19:52 ` [PATCH 02/10] nfs-utils: clean up option parsing in nfsd.c Jeff Layton
2009-06-03 19:52 ` [PATCH 03/10] nfs-utils: convert rpc.nfsd to use xlog() Jeff Layton
2009-06-03 20:01   ` Chuck Lever
2009-06-03 20:22     ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]       ` <20090603162214.2aeed744-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-03 20:25         ` Steve Dickson
2009-06-03 20:31         ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]   ` <7968D2B9-3E31-4E0D-9D0B-309D757A0014@oracle.com>
2009-06-04 20:25     ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]       ` <20090604162534.15db803a-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-04 20:38         ` Chuck Lever
2009-06-03 19:52 ` [PATCH 04/10] nfs-utils: clean up NFSCTL_* macros for handling protocol bits Jeff Layton
2009-06-03 19:52 ` [PATCH 05/10] nfs-utils: move check for active knfsd to helper function Jeff Layton
2009-06-04 20:00   ` Chuck Lever
2009-06-04 20:29     ` Jeff Layton
2009-06-03 19:52 ` [PATCH 06/10] nfs-utils: convert nfssvc_setfds to use getaddrinfo Jeff Layton
2009-06-04 20:17   ` Chuck Lever
2009-06-04 20:36     ` Jeff Layton
2009-06-03 19:52 ` [PATCH 07/10] nfs-utils: break up the nfssvc interface Jeff Layton
2009-06-03 19:52 ` [PATCH 08/10] nfs-utils: add IPv6 support to nfssvc_setfds Jeff Layton
2009-06-03 20:08   ` Chuck Lever
2009-06-03 20:16     ` Steve Dickson
     [not found]       ` <4A26DA3B.3090404-AfCzQyP5zfLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-03 20:20         ` Steve Dickson
2009-06-03 20:24         ` Chuck Lever
2009-06-04 21:00   ` Chuck Lever
2009-06-03 19:52 ` [PATCH 09/10] nfs-utils: add IPv6 support to nfsd Jeff Layton
2009-06-03 19:52 ` Jeff Layton [this message]

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