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authorHenning Brauer <henning@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-12-22 22:29:19 +0000
committerHenning Brauer <henning@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-12-22 22:29:19 +0000
commit731343fd3119f24ca29b40e8babfae1fdf38c887 (patch)
tree5b43db3cdd6be109436a42a41a2024b3ce000836 /usr.sbin
parent7eec19bad9964063496283d944184515ff84319d (diff)
spelink; Wouter Clarie in PR 3047
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/httpd/httpd.822
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/httpd/httpd.8 b/usr.sbin/httpd/httpd.8
index 68004f458dd..793684abdf8 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/httpd/httpd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/httpd/httpd.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: httpd.8,v 1.10 2002/12/15 13:32:41 henning Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: httpd.8,v 1.11 2002/12/22 22:29:18 henning Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 1995-1997 David Robinson. All rights reserved.
.\" Copyright (c) 1997-1999 The Apache Group. All rights reserved.
.\" Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Bob Beck. All rights reserved.
@@ -68,12 +68,14 @@
.Nm
is the Apache HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server program. It is
designed to be run as a standalone daemon process. When used like this
-is will create a pool of child processes to handle requests. To stop
+it will create a pool of child processes to handle requests. To stop
it, send a TERM signal to the initial (parent) process. The PID of
this process is written to a file as given in the configuration file.
Alternatively
.Nm
-may be invoked by the Internet daemon inetd(8) each
+may be invoked by the Internet daemon
+.Xr inetd 8
+each
time a connection to the HTTP service is made.
.Pp
Normally this service can be enabled for startup on OpenBSD
@@ -84,13 +86,17 @@ The
option is of particular importance.
.Pp
This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For details
-of the directives necessary to configure httpd see the Apache manual,
+of the directives necessary to configure
+.Nm
+see the Apache manual,
which is part of the Apache distribution or can be found at
.Pa http://www.apache.org/ ,
or in
.Pa /var/www/htdocs/manual .
Paths in this manual page reflect those
-compiled into httpd by default with OpenBSD.
+compiled into
+.Nm
+by default with OpenBSD.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl u
@@ -103,7 +109,7 @@ to the
path.
The
.Fl u
-option disabled this behaviour, and returns
+option disables this behaviour, and returns
.Nm
to the expanded "unsecure" behaviour.
.Pp
@@ -187,11 +193,11 @@ Show the settings as parsed from the config file (currently only shows the
virtualhost settings).
.It Fl t
Run syntax tests for configuration files only, including DocumentRoot checks.
-The program immediately exits after these syntax parsing with either a return
+The program immediately exits after this syntax parsing with either a return
code of 0 (Syntax OK) or return code not equal to 0 (Syntax Error).
.It Fl T
Run syntax tests for configuration files only, without DocumentRoot checks.
-The program immediately exits after these syntax parsing with either a return
+The program immediately exits after this syntax parsing with either a return
code of 0 (Syntax OK) or return code not equal to 0 (Syntax Error).
.It Fl X
Run in single-process mode, for internal debugging purposes only; the daemon