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diff --git a/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man b/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man
index 4eb3e21..7de0867 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 +23,9 @@ server provides an ancillary service needed to satisfy mount requests
 by NFS clients.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
+.B \-d " or " \-\-debug
+enable logging of debugging messages
+.TP
 .B \-H " or " \-\-host  hostname
 specify a particular hostname (or address) that NFS requests will
 be accepted on. By default,
@@ -34,7 +38,7 @@ request on all known network addresses.  This may change in future
 releases of the Linux Kernel.
 .TP
 .B \-p " or " \-\-port  port
-specify a diferent port to listen on for NFS requests. By default,
+specify a different port to listen on for NFS requests. By default,
 .B rpc.nfsd
 will listen on port 2049.
 .TP
@@ -43,7 +47,15 @@ This option can be used to request that
 .B rpc.nfsd
 does not offer certain versions of NFS. The current version of
 .B rpc.nfsd
-can support both NFS version 2,3 and the newer version 4.
+can support NFS versions 2,3,4 and the newer version 4.1.
+.TP
+.B \-s " or " \-\-syslog
+By default,
+.B rpc.nfsd
+logs error messages (and debug messages, if enabled) to stderr. This option makes 
+.B rpc.nfsd
+log these messages to syslog instead. Note that errors encountered during
+option processing will still be logged to stderr regardless of this option.
 .TP
 .B \-T " or " \-\-no-tcp
 Disable 
@@ -55,6 +67,13 @@ Disable
 .B rpc.nfsd
 from accepting UDP connections from clients.
 .TP
+.B \-V " or " \-\-nfs-version vers
+This option can be used to request that 
+.B rpc.nfsd
+offer certain versions of NFS. The current version of
+.B rpc.nfsd
+can support NFS versions 2,3,4 and the newer version 4.1.
+.TP
 .I nproc
 specify the number of NFS server threads. By default, just one
 thread is started. However, for optimum performance several threads
@@ -75,12 +94,19 @@ 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.