From: Davin McCall <davmac@davmac.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:39:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update man page with --log-file documentation.
X-Git-Tag: v0.1.1~1
X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b6354878ed5a5130bf7bfd2b9465c106628df526;p=oweals%2Fdinit.git

Update man page with --log-file documentation.
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diff --git a/doc/manpages/dinit.8 b/doc/manpages/dinit.8
index 638eab4..6560b44 100644
--- a/doc/manpages/dinit.8
+++ b/doc/manpages/dinit.8
@@ -35,9 +35,16 @@ Read initial environment from \fIfile\fP. For the system init process, the
 default is \fI/etc/dinit/environment\fR; see \fBFILES\fR.
 .TP
 \fB\-p\fR \fIpath\fP, \fB\-\-socket\-path\fR \fIpath\fP
-Species \fIpath\fP as the path to the control socket used to listen for
+Specifies \fIpath\fP as the path to the control socket used to listen for
 commands from the \fBdinitctl\fR program.
 .TP
+\fB\-l\fR \fIpath\fP, \fB\-\-log\-file\fR \fIpath\fP
+Species \fIpath\fP as the path to the log file, to which Dinit will log status
+and error messages. Note that when running as the system init process, Dinit
+does not begin logging until the log service has started. Using this option
+inhibits logging via the syslog facility, however, all logging messages are
+duplicated as usual to the console (so long as no service owns the console).
+.TP
 \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-system\fR
 Run as the system init process. This is the default if invoked as PID 1.
 This option affects the default service definition directory and