Get rid of the control master symlink

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

diff --git a/doc/man/innduct.8 b/doc/man/innduct.8
index 580f317ed853af04e96c463253e3b87fb1c4913a..055d083085466bc77731e9e0a0751a0cae9a355b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/innduct.8
+++ b/doc/man/innduct.8
@@ -106,19 +106,20 @@ Read
 instead of the default
 .BR inn.conf .
 .TP
-.BI \-\-ctrl-sock-dir= DIR
-Use
-.I DIR
-as the directory to contain the actual control socket.  See
-CONTROLLING INNDUCT, below.
-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 .
+.BR \-\-cli= \fIDIR\fR / |\fIPATH\fR
+Bind the control command line socket to
+.IB DIR / site _cli
+(if the value ends with a
+.BR /)
+or
+.I PATH
+(if it doesn't).  See CONTROLLING INNDUCT, below.
+This option may be essential, if the
+path to
+.I feedfile
+is too long, as there is a fairly short limit on the paths to AF_UNIX
+sockets.  The default is
+.IR feedfile \fB_cli\fR.  
 .TP
 .BI \-\-port= PORT
 Connect to port
@@ -317,29 +318,22 @@ If you want to stop innduct you can send it SIGTERM or SIGINT, or the
 control command, in which case it will report statistics so far and
 quickly exit.  If innduct receives SIGKILL nothing will be broken or
 corrupted; you just won't see some of the article stats.
+.LP
 innduct listens on an AF_UNIX socket, and provides a command-line
 interface which can be used to trigger various events and for
-debugging.
-.LP
-The socket is called
-.IB feedfile _control
+debugging.  The socket is called
+.IB feedfile _cli
 and when connected reads and writes lines (with unix line endings).
 It can most easily be accessed with a program like
 .I netcat-openbsd
 (eg
 .B nc.openbsd -U
-.IR feedfile \fB_control\fR)
+.IR feedfile \fB_cli\fR)
 or
 .IR socat .
-The CLI has as a prompt
+The prompt is
 .IR site \fB|\fR.
 .LP
-Because there is a fairly short limit on the length of pathnames used
-for AF_UNIX sockets, innduct actually creates the socket with a unique
-name in a different dedicated subdirectory of /tmp, and makes
-.IB feedfile _control
-a symlink to the real socket.
-.LP
 The following control commands are supported:
 .TP
 .B h
@@ -491,6 +485,10 @@ safely remove backlog files.  \fIsomething\fR may not contain \fB#\fR
 you rename it to match the pattern \fIfeedfile\fR\fB_backlog\fR*, as
 otherwise innduct may find and process the file and read it to EOF
 before you have finished creating it.
+.IP \fIfeedfile\fR_cli
+.IX Item "control command line socket"
+Default AF_UNIX listening socket for the control command line.  See
+CONTROLLING INNDUCT, above.
 .IP \fIfeedfile\fR_dump
 .IX Item "debug dump file"
 On request via a control connection innduct dumps a summary of its