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| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/httpd/httpd.8 | 22 |
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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 |