Merge branch 'master' of login.chiark.greenend.org.uk:public-git/inn-innduct

[inn-innduct.git] / doc / man / innduct.8

diff --git a/doc/man/innduct.8 b/doc/man/innduct.8
index 06822cce0d1867c88348d703197d1d2cfc6e54c3..83aeade401744181d29a9495eeb86a6130e5d224 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/innduct.8
+++ b/doc/man/innduct.8
@@ -94,12 +94,38 @@ Do not daemonise.  innduct runs in the foreground and all messages
 Do not try to use the streaming extensions to NNTP (for use eg if the
 peer can't cope when we send MODE STREAM).
 .TP
+.BI \-\-no-filemon
+Do not try to use the file change monitoring support to watch for
+writes by innd to the feed file; poll it instead.  (If file monitoring
+is not compiled in, this option just downgrades the log message which
+warns about this situation.)
+.TP
 .BR \-C | \-\-inndconf= \fIFILE\fR
 Read
 .I FILE
 instead of the default
 .BR inn.conf .
 .TP
+.BI \-\-ctrl-sock-dir= DIR
+Bind the real control socket to a unique filename in
+.IR DIR .
+A symlink will be made pointing to the actual file used, named
+.IB feedfile _control
+in the same directory as
+.IR feedfile ,
+but since
+.IR feedfile 's
+path may be too long for an AF_UNIX socket path, innduct always
+creates the sockets in this dedicated directory which is expected to
+have a short path.  If
+.I DIR
+does not exist it will be created with mode 0700; if it does
+exist it must not be a symlink and must be owned by the user running
+innduct and have no access for "other".  If the control socket cannot
+be set up (for this or any other reason), a warning is logged, but
+such situations are not fatal for innduct's startup.  The default is
+.BR /tmp/innduct.control .
+.TP
 .BI \-\-port= PORT
 Connect to port
 .I PORT
@@ -142,9 +168,13 @@ working.  The default is
 .TP
 .BI \-\-period-interval= PERIOD-INTERVAL
 Specifies wakup interval and period granularity.
-innduct wakes up every PERIOD-INTERVAL to do various housekeeping
-checks.  Also, many of the timeout and rescan intervals (those
-specified in this manual as
+innduct wakes up every
+.I PERIOD-INTERVAL
+to do various housekeeping checks.  Also, many of the timeout and
+rescan intervals (those specified in this manual as
+.IR PERIOD )
+are rounded up to the next multiple of
+.IR PERIOD-INTERVAL .
 .TP
 .BI \-\-connection-timeout= TIME
 How long to allow for a connection setup attempt before giving up.