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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2011-08-19 22:24:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2011-08-22 10:39:25 +0200 |
| commit | c48d969b37bc9cbb1f1682cbccaad15dec5efe46 (patch) | |
| tree | c10183b39b4c9ad1e159175e362186a954d11dc6 | |
| parent | uuidd: (man page) repair the snipped up description of option -T (diff) | |
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uuidd: (man page) alphabetize the options
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/uuidd.8 | 44 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/uuidd.8 b/misc-utils/uuidd.8 index 6df4ee57f..8e82b10b7 100644 --- a/misc-utils/uuidd.8 +++ b/misc-utils/uuidd.8 @@ -17,10 +17,32 @@ in a secure and guaranteed-unique fashion, even in the face of large numbers of threads running on different CPUs trying to grab UUIDs. .SH OPTIONS .TP +.B \-d +Run uuidd in debugging mode. This prevents uuidd from running as a daemon. +.TP +.BR \-h , " \-\-help " +Display help screen and exit. +.TP +.BR \-k , " \-\-kill " +If currently a uuidd daemon is running, kill it. +.TP +.BR \-n , " \-\-uuids " \fInumber\fR +When issuing a test request to a running uuidd, request a bulk response +of +.I number +UUIDs. +.TP .BR \-p , " \-\-pid " \fIpath\fR Specify the pathname where the pid file should be written. By default, the pid file is written to /var/run/uuidd/uuidd.pid. .TP +.B \-q +Suppress some failure messages. +.TP +.BR \-r , " \-\-random " +Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and +request it to return a random-based UUID. +.TP .BR \-s , " \-\-socket " \fIpath\fR Specify the pathname used for the unix-domain socket used by uuidd. By default, the pathname used is /var/run/uuidd/request. This is primarily @@ -32,34 +54,12 @@ Specify a timeout for uuidd. If specified, then uuidd will exit after .I timeout seconds of inactivity. .TP -.BR \-k , " \-\-kill " -If currently a uuidd daemon is running, kill it. -.TP -.BR \-r , " \-\-random " -Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and -request it to return a random-based UUID. -.TP .BR \-t , " \-\-time " Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and request it to return a time-based UUID. .TP -.BR \-n , " \-\-uuids " \fInumber\fR -When issuing a test request to a running uuidd, request a bulk response -of -.I number -UUIDs. -.TP -.B \-d -Run uuidd in debugging mode. This prevents uuidd from running as a daemon. -.TP -.BI \-q -Suppress some failure messages. -.TP .BR \-V , " \-\-version " Output version information and exit. -.TP -.BR \-h , " \-\-help " -Display help screen and exit. .SH EXAMPLE Start up a daemon, print 42 random keys, and then stop the daemon. .PP |