patch to start-stop-daemon.8
hello,
I've found my own long-forgotten patch to the manpage of start-stop-daemon,
which fixes various markup problems and one typo.
--- start-stop-daemon.8 Sat Mar 2 01:40:52 2002
+++ start-stop-daemon.8-new Sat Mar 9 03:46:28 2002
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@
on the command line are passed unmodified to the program being
started. If
.B --retry
-is specified then start-stop-daemon will check that the process(es)
+is specified then
+.B start-stop-daemon
+will check that the process(es)
have terminated.
With
@@ -68,34 +70,28 @@
.TP
\fB-x\fP|\fB--exec\fP \fIexecutable\fP
Check for processes that are instances of this executable (according to
-.B /proc/
-.I pid
-.B /exe
-).
+.BR /proc/\fP\fIpid\fP\fB/exe ).
.TP
\fB-p\fP|\fB--pidfile\fP \fIpid-file\fP
Check for processes whose process-id is specified in
-.I pid-file.
+.IR pid-file .
.TP
\fB-u\fP|\fB--user\fP \fIusername\fP|\fIuid\fP
Check for processes owned by the user specified by
.I username
or
-.I uid.
+.IR uid .
.TP
\fB-n\fP|\fB--name\fP \fIprocess-name\fP
Check for processes with the name
.I process-name
(according to
-.B /proc/
-.I pid
-.B /stat
-).
+.BR /proc/\fP\fIpid\fP\fB/stat ).
.TP
\fB-s\fP|\fB--signal\fP \fIsignal\fP
With
-.BR --stop
-, specifies the signal to send to processes being stopped (default 15).
+.BR --stop ,
+specifies the signal to send to processes being stopped (default 15).
.TP
\fB-R\fP|\fB--retry\fP \fItimeout\fP|\fIschedule\fP
With
@@ -175,7 +171,7 @@
option is not specified. The
.B --group
option is only for
-groups that the user isn't normally a member of (like adding per/process
+groups that the user isn't normally a member of (like adding per-process
group membership for generic users like
.BR nobody ).
.TP
--alexm
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