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.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-.so ../defs.man.in \" @@@PRE@@@
+.so ../common/defs.man \" @@@PRE@@@
.
.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-.TH tripectl 1 "19 February 2001" "Straylight/Edgeware" "TrIPE: Trivial IP Encryption"
+.TH tripectl 1tripe "19 February 2001" "Straylight/Edgeware" "TrIPE: Trivial IP Encryption"
.
.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
.SH "NAME"
.
.B tripectl
.RB [ \-w ]
+.RB [ \-W
+.IR things ]
.RB [ \-\fIoptions ]
.RI [ command
.RI [ args ]...]
.br
.B tripectl
-.RB [ \-Dl ]
+.RB [ \-Dlt ]
.RB [ \-f
.IR file ]
.RB [ \-\fIoptions ]
.br
\&
.RB [ \-p
-.IR program ]
+.IR path ]
+.RB [ \-U
+.IR user ]
+.RB [ \-G
+.IR group ]
.RB [ \-S
.IB arg , arg ,\fR...]
.
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
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
(e.g.,
.BR \-a ).
.TP
+.BI "\-U, \-\-setuid=" user
+Set uid to that of
+.I user
+(either a user name or integer uid) after initialization. Also set gid
+to
+.IR user 's
+primary group, unless overridden by a
+.B \-G
+option. If a new
+.BR tripe (8)
+server is going to be spawned then it is also passed corresponding
+.B \-U
+and
+.B \-G
+options.
+.TP
+.BI "\-G, \-\-setgid=" group
+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)
+server is going to be spawned then it is also passed a corresponding
+.B \-G
+option.
+.TP
.B "\-l, \-\-syslog"
Send warnings and trace messages to the
.BR syslog (8)
.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.
+.TP
+.BI "\-W, \-\-watch=" things
+When running as a client, arrange to receive asynchronous messages as
+described by
+.IR things ,
+which should be a trace list suitable for passing to the server's
+.B WATCH
+command: see
+.BR tripe-admin (5)
+for more details. This overrides the
+.B \-w
+flag in noninteractive use.
.SS "Interactive use"
With no arguments,
.B tripectl
.B tripectl
will start a new
.B tripe
-server, rather than connecting to an existing one. This is most useful
-if you want to collect logging information from the server, and want to
-avoid losing any. For example, the command
+server, rather than connecting to an existing one.
+.PP
+The command line for the new server is
+.IP
+.I path
+.B \-F
+.B \-d.\&
+.B \-a
+.I socket
+.I dash-S-options
+.PP
+where
+.I dash-S-options
+is the concatenation of the arguments of
+.B \-S
+options, split at commas.
+.PP
+Starting a
+.B tripe
+server through
+.B tripectl
+is most useful if you want to collect logging information from the
+server, and want to avoid losing any. For example, the command
.VS
tripectl -Ds -f tripe.log
.VE
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