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author | gad <gad@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-04-24 20:50:01 +0000 |
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committer | gad <gad@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-04-24 20:50:01 +0000 |
commit | 44a4a72e162c3a883f416bb8e40e2e2818eb5f6c (patch) | |
tree | c32c855d20c93592ebf97e5a8bdc54d01eec37f6 /usr.sbin | |
parent | 4d35246c8d1075be87ea72979dbb0eeba009ec39 (diff) | |
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Document support for the new 'U' flag, which was implemented back in March
as revision 1.64 of newsyslog.c. I plan to MFC these changes next week.
MFC after: 1 week
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 | 23 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 index da38ffb..288e9e1 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ .\" the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is .\" provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. .\" -.Dd March 02, 2003 +.Dd March 08, 2003 .Dt NEWSYSLOG 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -312,6 +312,13 @@ log file using .It Sy N indicates that there is no process which needs to be signalled when this log file is rotated. +.It Sy U +indicates that the file specified by +.Ar path_to_pid_file +will contain the id for a process group, instead of a process. +This option also requires that the first line in that file must +be a negative value, to distinguish it from a value for a +process id. .It Sy W if used with the .Sy Z @@ -341,7 +348,9 @@ field when you need to specify any of the following fields. .El .It Ar path_to_pid_file This optional field specifies the file name to read to find the daemon -process id. +process id, or to find a process group id if the +.Sy U +flag was specified. If this field is present, a .Ar signal_number is sent the process id contained in this file. @@ -354,10 +363,12 @@ flag has been specified. This field must start with "/" in order to be recognized properly. .It Ar signal_number -This optional field specifies -the signal number will be sent to the daemon process. -By default -a SIGHUP will be sent. +This optional field specifies the signal number that will be sent +to the daemon process (or to all processes in a process group, if +the +.Sy U +flag was specified). +If this field is not present, then a SIGHUP signal will be sent. .El .Sh OPTIONS The following options can be used with |