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Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils/uuidd.8')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/uuidd.8 b/misc-utils/uuidd.8 index 758dd6609..ee283b05f 100644 --- a/misc-utils/uuidd.8 +++ b/misc-utils/uuidd.8 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ .\" Copyright 2007 by Theodore Ts'o. All Rights Reserved. .\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License. .\" -.TH UUIDD 8 "May 2009" "Linux" +.TH UUIDD 8 "February 2011" "Linux" .SH NAME uuidd \- UUID generation daemon .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ uuidd \- UUID generation daemon .RB [ \-d ] .RB [ \-p .IR pidfile ] +.RB [ \-q ] .RB [ \-s .IR socketpath ] .RB [ \-T @@ -19,10 +20,12 @@ uuidd \- UUID generation daemon .RB [ \-r | \-t ] .RB [ \-n .IR number ] +.RB [ \-q ] .RB [ \-s .IR socketpath ] .br .B uuidd \-k +.RB [ \-q ] .SH DESCRIPTION The .B uuidd @@ -50,16 +53,19 @@ UUIDs. 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 \-r +Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and +request it to return a random-based UUID. +.TP +.BI \-q +Suppress some failure messages. +.TP .BI \-s " socketpath" 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 for debugging purposes, since the pathname is hard-coded in the libuuid library. .TP -.B \-r -Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and -request it to return a random-based UUID. -.TP .B \-t Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and request it to return a time-based UUID. @@ -68,13 +74,10 @@ request it to return a time-based UUID. Specify a timeout for uuidd. If specified, then uuidd will exit after .I timeout seconds of inactivity. -.TP -.BI \-q -Turn on quiet flag. .SH AUTHOR The .B uuidd -daemon was written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>. +daemon was written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>. .SH AVAILABILITY uuidd is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |