Improve server logging.

[tripe] / client / tripectl.1.in

diff --git a/client/tripectl.1.in b/client/tripectl.1.in
index 57061ae1125d543a04ca0ebbef4c479aa0712ba7..33e56cc9ba5add643c8af6d98a8250aa40ed5be0 100644 (file)
--- a/client/tripectl.1.in
+++ b/client/tripectl.1.in
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\" Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
 .
 .\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-.so ../defs.man.in \" @@@PRE@@@
+.so ../common/defs.man \" @@@PRE@@@
 .
 .\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 .TH tripectl 1 "19 February 2001" "Straylight/Edgeware" "TrIPE: Trivial IP Encryption"
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ tripectl \- simple client for TrIPE
 .RI [ args ]...]
 .br
 .B tripectl
-.RB [ \-Dl ]
+.RB [ \-Dlt ]
 .RB [ \-f
 .IR file ]
 .RB [ \-\fIoptions ]
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ directory.  The default directory, if this option is not specified, is
 taken from the environment variable
 .BR TRIPEDIR ;
 if that's not defined either, a default default of
-.B "*(/c"
+.B "\*(/c"
 is used.
 .TP
 .BI "\-a, \-\-admin-socket=" socket
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ The default socket, if this option is not specified, is taken from the
 environment variable
 .BR TRIPESOCK ;
 if that's not defined either, a default default of
-.B "*(/s/tripesock"
+.B "\*(/s/tripesock"
 is used.
 .TP
 .BI "\-P, \-\-pidfile=" pidfile
@@ -200,7 +200,9 @@ and
 options.
 .TP
 .BI "\-G, \-\-setgid=" group
-Set gid to that of
+If the current effective uid is zero (i.e., the daemon was invoked as
+.BR root )
+then set gid to that of
 .I group
 (either a group name or integer gid) after initialization.  If a new
 .BR tripe (8)
@@ -221,12 +223,26 @@ trace messages are logged with severity
 .BI "\-f, \-\-logfile=" file
 Write warnings and trace messages to
 .IR file .
-On receipt of a
+The
+.I file
+may be
+.RB ` \- '
+to request output to stdout, or
+.RB ` ! '
+to request output to stderr.  If a proper filename is given (rather than
+one of these special tokens), then on receipt of a
 .B SIGHUP
 signal,
 .B tripectl
-will close its log file and reopen a new one with the same name.  This
-is useful when you rotate logs.
+will close its log file and reopen a new one with the same name; this is
+useful when you rotate logs.
+.TP
+.B "\-t, \-\-no-timestamp"
+When logging to a file (with
+.BR \-f ),
+don't prefix log items with a timestamp.  This is useful when the log
+output is being captured by some process which will add its own
+timestamps anyway.
 .TP
 .B "\-w, \-\-warnings"
 Write warnings to standard error even when running noninteractively.