<book>
<title>User service daemon and client specification
-<author>Ian Jackson <email>ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk
+<author>Ian Jackson and contributors
<version></version>
<abstract>
between them.
<copyright>
-<prgn/userv/ is Copyright 1996-2003 Ian Jackson.
+<prgn/userv/ is
+Copyright 1996-2021 Ian Jackson;
+Copyright 2021 Genome Research Limited apropos work by Matthew Vernon;
+Copyright 2000 Ben Harris;
+Copyright 2016-2017 Peter Benie.
<p>
<prgn/userv/ is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.
<p>
<p>
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with <prgn/userv/; if not, write to the Free Software
-Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+along with <prgn/userv/; if not, see
+<tt>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</tt>.
<toc sect>
<p>
<var/service-user/ specifies which user is to provide the service.
-The user may be a login name or a numeric uid, or <tt/-/ to indicate
+The user must be a login name, or <tt/-/ to indicate
that the service user is to be the same as the calling user.
<p>
<tt/:empty/ (note that this is different from a parameter not having
any values).
+<p>
+(In older versions of userv, a different translation was applied:
+See <tt>https://bugs.debian.org/837391</tt>. The old translation
+can be requested (for subsequent directives) with
+<tt/include-lookup-quote-old/, which is undone by
+<tt/include-lookup-quote-new/ and <tt/reset/.)
+
<tag/<tt/include-directory <var/directory///
<item>
Read configuration from all files in directory <var/directory/ which
</taglist>
-<tag/<tt/errors-push/ <var/filename//
+<tag/<tt/errors-push//
<tag/<tt/srorre//
<item>
Stacks the error handling behaviour currently in effect. Any changes