From 96838f81f6483a3545d9e64687b34e3ad60e4905 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Pointner Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:54:43 +0000 Subject: added signals info to manpage git-svn-id: https://svn.spreadspace.org/tcpproxy/trunk@61 e61f0598-a718-4e21-a8f0-0aadfa62ad6b --- doc/tcpproxy.8 | 26 ++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/tcpproxy.8') diff --git a/doc/tcpproxy.8 b/doc/tcpproxy.8 index 46609ec..1eab26a 100644 --- a/doc/tcpproxy.8 +++ b/doc/tcpproxy.8 @@ -1,22 +1,13 @@ '\" t .\" Title: tcpproxy .\" Author: [see the "AUTHORS" section] -.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.75.2 -.\" Date: 12/05/2010 -.\" Manual: \ \& -.\" Source: \ \& +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.75.1 +.\" Date: 12/14/2010 +.\" Manual: tcpproxy user manual +.\" Source: tcpproxy trunk .\" Language: English .\" -.TH "TCPPROXY" "8" "12/05/2010" "\ \&" "\ \&" -.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- -.\" * Define some portability stuff -.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- -.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 -.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html -.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq -.el .ds Aq ' +.TH "TCPPROXY" "8" "12/14/2010" "tcpproxy trunk" "tcpproxy user manual" .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * set default formatting .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -91,9 +82,9 @@ to write it\(cqs pid to this file\&. The default is to not create a pid file\&. .PP \fB\-L, \-\-log :[,[,[\&.\&.]]]\fR .RS 4 -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 hast its own log level which is a number between 0 and 5\&. Where 0 means disabling log and 5 means debug messages are enabled\&. +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 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 the once with different levels\&. If no target is provided at the command line a single target with the config +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 config \fBsyslog:3,tcpproxy,daemon\fR is added\&. @@ -205,6 +196,9 @@ listen (*|address|hostname) (port\-number|service\-name) .\} .sp Everything between the curly brackets except for the \fBremote\fR parameter may be omitted\&. +.SH "SIGNALS" +.sp +After receiving the HUP signal \fBtcpproxy\fR 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 a privileged port (<1024)\&. If there is a syntax error at the configuration file all changes are discarded\&. On SIGUSR1 \fBtcpproxy\fR 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\&. .SH "BUGS" .sp Most likely there are some bugs in \fBtcpproxy\fR\&. If you find a bug, please let the developers know at tcpproxy@spreadspace\&.org\&. Of course, patches are preferred\&. -- cgit v1.2.3