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authorChristian Pointner <equinox@spreadspace.org>2013-10-07 11:55:08 +0000
committerChristian Pointner <equinox@spreadspace.org>2013-10-07 11:55:08 +0000
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parentfixed build with -Wall (diff)
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updated copyright notice git-svn-id: https://svn.spreadspace.org/tcpproxy/trunk@68 e61f0598-a718-4e21-a8f0-0aadfa62ad6b
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+++ b/doc/tcpproxy.8.txt
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ tcpproxy
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-*tcpproxy* is a simple tcp connection proxy which combines the
-features of rinetd and 6tunnel. *tcpproxy* supports IPv4 and
-IPv6 and also supports connections from IPv6 to IPv4 endpoints
+*tcpproxy* is a simple tcp connection proxy which combines the
+features of rinetd and 6tunnel. *tcpproxy* supports IPv4 and
+IPv6 and also supports connections from IPv6 to IPv4 endpoints
and vice versa.
OPTIONS
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ The following options can be passed to the *tcpproxy* daemon:
instead of becoming a daemon which is the default.
*-u, --username <username>*::
- run as this user. If no group is specified (*-g*) the default group of
+ run as this user. If no group is specified (*-g*) the default group of
the user is used. The default is to not drop privileges.
*-g, --groupname <groupname>*::
@@ -58,20 +58,20 @@ The following options can be passed to the *tcpproxy* daemon:
The default is to not drop privileges.
*-C, --chroot <path>*::
- Instruct *tcpproxy* to run in a chroot jail. The default is
+ Instruct *tcpproxy* to run in a chroot jail. The default is
to not run in chroot.
*-P, --write-pid <filename>*::
- Instruct *tcpproxy* to write it's pid to this file. The default is
+ Instruct *tcpproxy* to write it's pid to this file. The default is
to not create a pid file.
*-L, --log <target>:<level>[,<param1>[,<param2>[..]]]*::
add log target to logging system. This can be invoked several times
- in order to log to different targets at the same time. Every target
+ in order to log to different targets at the same time. Every target
has its own log level which is a number between 0 and 5. Where 0 means
disabling log and 5 means debug messages are enabled. +
The file target can be used more than once with different levels.
- If no target is provided at the command line a single target with the
+ If no target is provided at the command line a single target with the
config *syslog:3,tcpproxy,daemon* is added. +
The following targets are supported:
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ The following options can be passed to the *tcpproxy* daemon:
*stderr*;; log to standard error, parameters <level>
*-U, --debug*::
- This option instructs *tcpproxy* to run in debug mode. It implicits *-D*
+ This option instructs *tcpproxy* to run in debug mode. It implicits *-D*
(don't daemonize) and adds a log target with the configuration
*stdout:5* (logging with maximum level). In future releases there might
be additional output when this option is supplied.
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ The following options can be passed to the *tcpproxy* daemon:
to resolv both.
*-p, --local-port <service>*::
- The local port to bind to. By default there is no port defined in which case
+ The local port to bind to. By default there is no port defined in which case
*tcpproxy* will try to read the configuration file.
*-r, --remote-addr <host>*::
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ The following options can be passed to the *tcpproxy* daemon:
By default *tcpproxy* uses the default source address for the defined remote host.
*-b, --buffer-size <size>*::
- The size of the transmit buffers to use. *tcpproxy* will allocate two buffers of this
+ The size of the transmit buffers to use. *tcpproxy* will allocate two buffers of this
size for any client which is connected. By default a value of 10Kbytes is used.
*-c, --config <file>*::
@@ -148,12 +148,12 @@ SIGNALS
After receiving the HUP signal *tcpproxy* tries to reload the configuration file. It only
reopens a listen socket if the local address and or port has changed. Therefore reloading the
configuration after the daemon has dropped privileges is safe as long as there are no changes
-in the local address and port. However this is only of concern if any of the listen ports is
+in the local address and port. However this is only of concern if any of the listen ports is
a privileged port (<1024). If there is a syntax error at the configuration file all changes
are discarded.
On SIGUSR1 *tcpproxy* prints some information about the listening sockets and after SIGUSR2
-information about open client connections is printed. This is sent to all configured log
-targets at a level of 3.
+information about open client connections is printed. This is sent to all configured log
+targets at a level of 3.
BUGS
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ Main web site: http://www.spreadspace.org/tcpproxy/
COPYING
-------
-Copyright \(C) 2010 Christian Pointner. This program is free
-software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
-of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+Copyright \(C) 2010-2013 Christian Pointner. This program is free
+software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
+of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.