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* [PATCH] utils/statd.man: Clarify the --name argument usage
@ 2019-10-02  0:52 Marcos Paulo de Souza
  2019-10-10 14:57 ` Marcos Paulo de Souza
  2019-10-14 18:19 ` Steve Dickson
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Marcos Paulo de Souza @ 2019-10-02  0:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-nfs, steved; +Cc: Marcos Paulo de Souza

From: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@suse.com>

The man page does not clarifies that the --name argument is only used by
the sm-notify command, and statd itself listen to all interfaces. This
change makes clear that the --name argument is only passed to sm-notify.

Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@suse.com>
---
 utils/statd/statd.man | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utils/statd/statd.man b/utils/statd/statd.man
index 71d58461..03732a6f 100644
--- a/utils/statd/statd.man
+++ b/utils/statd/statd.man
@@ -185,18 +185,16 @@ restarts without the
 option.
 .TP
 .BI "\-n, " "" "\-\-name " ipaddr " | " hostname
-Specifies the bind address used for RPC listener sockets.
+This string is only used by the
+.B sm-notify
+command as the source address from which to send reboot notification requests.
+.IP
 The
 .I ipaddr
 form can be expressed as either an IPv4 or an IPv6 presentation address.
 If this option is not specified,
 .B rpc.statd
 uses a wildcard address as the transport bind address.
-.IP
-This string is also passed to the
-.B sm-notify
-command to be used as the source address from which
-to send reboot notification requests.
 See
 .BR sm-notify (8)
 for details.
-- 
2.23.0


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