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authorMateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>2023-09-18 18:28:27 +0000
committerMateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>2023-09-22 15:07:28 +0000
commitab77ddea332528c306faf356d49e7b58cf1526b6 (patch)
tree64ca904068343530820d90482fdbf6d9dca3dae9
parent24a3cb75011d6a81aff0fb244d803572cc857d03 (diff)
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daemon.8: Use Dv for signal names
MFC after: 3 days (cherry picked from commit 735637f7d68777d0befa4b9a9291f3fc02b5ed00)
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.811
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.8 b/usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.8
index 4c7064fc9b67..35b877039e4a 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.8
@@ -69,7 +69,9 @@ specified by the other options.
.It Fl H , Fl -sighup
Close
.Pa output_file
-and re-open it when signal SIGHUP is received, for interoperability with
+and re-open it when signal
+.Dv SIGHUP
+is received, for interoperability with
.Xr newsyslog 1
and similar log rotation / archival mechanisms. If
.Fl -output-file
@@ -89,7 +91,8 @@ and
.Fl -sighup
the absolute path needs to be provided to ensure
.Nm
-can re-open the file after a SIGHUP.
+can re-open the file after a
+.Dv SIGHUP .
.It Fl m , Fl -output-mask Ar output_mask
Redirect output from the child process stdout (1), stderr (2), or both (3).
This value specifies what is sent to syslog and the log file.
@@ -177,7 +180,9 @@ waits until it terminates to keep the pid file(s) locked and removes them
after the process exits or restarts the program.
In this case if the monitoring
.Nm
-receives software termination signal (SIGTERM) it forwards it to the
+receives software termination signal
+.Pq Dv SIGTERM
+it forwards it to the
spawned process.
Normally it will cause the child to exit, remove the pidfile(s)
and then terminate.