Improve server logging.

[tripe] / client / tripectl.1.in

diff --git a/client/tripectl.1.in b/client/tripectl.1.in
index 4c6777e18bf5db104e081506056dedf4ea58952b..33e56cc9ba5add643c8af6d98a8250aa40ed5be0 100644 (file)
--- a/client/tripectl.1.in
+++ b/client/tripectl.1.in
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ tripectl \- simple client for TrIPE
 .RI [ args ]...]
 .br
 .B tripectl
-.RB [ \-Dl ]
+.RB [ \-Dlt ]
 .RB [ \-f
 .IR file ]
 .RB [ \-\fIoptions ]
@@ -223,12 +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.