If a daemon always requires one or more fixed flags or arguments,

put these into $daemon, not into $daemon_flags;
feedback and ok jmc@, ok ajacoutot@, issue brought up by sthen@,
and sthen@ also likes the general idea.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8 b/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8
index da0eb591a6b..4361a3a9e11 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" 	$OpenBSD: rc.subr.8,v 1.17 2011/03/25 10:03:26 ajacoutot Exp $
+.\" 	$OpenBSD: rc.subr.8,v 1.18 2011/12/13 00:09:52 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2011 Robert Nagy, Antoine Jacoutot, Ingo Schwarze
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 25 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 13 2011 $
 .Dt RC.SUBR 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -208,7 +208,11 @@ i.e. that it will reload its configuration.
 uses the following shell variables to control its behaviour.
 .Bl -tag -width "daemon_flags"
 .It Va daemon
-The path to the daemon.
+The path to the daemon, optionally followed by one or more
+whitespace separated arguments.
+Arguments included here are always used, even if
+.Va daemon_flags
+is empty.
 This variable is required.
 It is an error to source
 .Nm