Add some clarification about the purpose of the program, info about the

--debug and --syslog options, and a note about how it behaves when
TI-RPC support is built in.

Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>

diff --git a/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man b/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man
index 4eb3e211ffbab6791955987db21d83b0ed4f9537..d8988d2878885d4a35f0b2f048391b5c965f02dd 100644 (file)
--- 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
 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
 .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
 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,
 .B \-H " or " \-\-host  hostname
 specify a particular hostname (or address) that NFS requests will
 be accepted on. By default,


@@ -45,6 +49,14 @@ 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.
 .TP
 .B rpc.nfsd
 can support both NFS version 2,3 and the newer version 4.
 .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 
 .B rpc.nfsd 
 .B \-T " or " \-\-no-tcp
 Disable 
 .B rpc.nfsd 


@@ -75,12 +87,19 @@ In particular
 .B rpc.nfsd 0
 will stop all threads and thus close any open connections.
 
 .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),
 .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.
 .SH AUTHOR
 Olaf Kirch, Bill Hawes, H. J. Lu, G. Allan Morris III,
 and a host of others.