Add some clarification about the purpose of the program, info about the --debug option, and a note about how it behaves when TI-RPC support is built in. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- utils/nfsd/nfsd.man | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man b/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man index 4eb3e21..94b041e 100644 --- a/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man +++ b/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man @@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ The program implements the user level part of the NFS service. The main functionality is handled by the .B nfsd -kernel module; the user space program merely starts the specified -number of kernel threads. +kernel module. The user space program merely specifies what sort of sockets +the kernel service should listen on, what NFS versions it should support, and +how many kernel threads it should use. .P The .B rpc.mountd @@ -22,6 +23,11 @@ server provides an ancillary service needed to satisfy mount requests by NFS clients. .SH OPTIONS .TP +.B \-d " or " \-\-debug +enable debug log messages and log messages to stderr instead of syslog. +By default, nfsd logs all messages to syslog, except for errors generated +during option processing which go to stderr. +.TP .B \-H " or " \-\-host hostname specify a particular hostname (or address) that NFS requests will be accepted on. By default, @@ -75,12 +81,19 @@ In particular .B rpc.nfsd 0 will stop all threads and thus close any open connections. +.SH NOTES +If the program is built with TI-RPC support, it will enable any protocol and +address family combinations that are marked visible in the +.B netconfig +database. + .SH SEE ALSO .BR rpc.mountd (8), .BR exports (5), .BR exportfs (8), .BR rpc.rquotad (8), -.BR nfsstat (8). +.BR nfsstat (8), +.BR netconfig(5). .SH AUTHOR Olaf Kirch, Bill Hawes, H. J. Lu, G. Allan Morris III, and a host of others. -- 1.6.2.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
