resolvconf -s now does service commands so subscribers don't need to know about how...

[openresolv] / resolvconf.8

diff --git a/resolvconf.8 b/resolvconf.8
index 58be2fd8e629313362ceb360caaa102f3daebe61..a8fcd4eefa4b1f3959bc7a6c7a8312c25409be61 100644 (file)
--- a/resolvconf.8
+++ b/resolvconf.8
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-.\" $Id$
-.\"
 .TH RESOLVCONF 8 "9 Nov 2007" "openresolv"
 .SH NAME
 resolvconf \- manage nameserver information
@@ -21,11 +19,13 @@ cat \fIFILE\fR |
 \fB\-i\fR \fIPATTERN\fR
 .PP
 .B resolvconf
-\fB\-v\fR \fIPATTERN\fr
+\fB\-v\fR \fIPATTERN\fR
+.B resolvconf
+\fB\-s\fR \fISERVICE COMMAND [args]\fR
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 Overwrite (\fB\-a\fR) or delete (\fB\-d\fR) the nameserver information
 record for network interface \fIINTERFACE\fR
-and run the update scripts in \fI/etc/resolvconf/update.d/\fR.
+and run the update scripts in \fI%%PREFIX%%/etc/resolvconf/update.d/\fR.
 .PP
 With \fB\-u\fR, just run the update scripts.
 .PP
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ with patterns to match interface names.
 With \fB\-v\fR, we echo variables NEWDOMAIN, NEWSEARCH and NEWNS to the
 console which can be used to make it easer writing scripts which configure
 DNS resolvers.
+.PP
+With \fB\-s\fR, we work out if the service is running by finding its pidfile
+and if it is we restart it. This means that only resolvconf needs to know this
+for supported platforms and subscribers can just call this resolvconf function.
 .SH SERVERS
 Normally
 .B resolvconf
@@ -63,8 +67,8 @@ Nameserver information provided to
 .B resolvconf
 is stored for use by subscribers to \fBresolvconf\fR's notification service.
 Subscribers that need to know when nameserver information has changed
-should install a script in \fI/etc/resolvconf/update.d/\fR
-(... or in \fI/etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/\fR: see below).
+should install a script in \fI%%PREFIX%%/etc/resolvconf/update.d/\fR
+(... or in \fI%%PREFIX%%/etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/\fR: see below).
 For example, DNS caches such as
 .BR dnsmasq (8)
 and
@@ -77,12 +81,12 @@ software that subscribes to the notification service is the set of functions
 that make up the GNU C Library
 .BR resolver (3).
 When nameserver information is updated the script
-\fI/etc/resolvconf/update.d/libc\fR writes a new resolver configuration
-file to \fI/etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf\fR and then runs the scripts in
-/etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/.
+\fI%%PREFIX%%/etc/resolvconf/update.d/libc\fR writes a new resolver configuration
+file to \fI%%PREFIX%%/etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf\fR and then runs the scripts in
+%%PREFIX%%/etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/.
 To make the resolver use the dynamically generated resolver configuration
 file the administrator should ensure that \fI/etc/resolv.conf\fR is a symbolic
-link to \fIresolvconf/run/resolv.conf\fR.
+link to \fI%%PREFIX%%/etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf\fR.
 This link is never modified by \fB/sbin/resolvconf\fR.
 If you find that \fI/etc/resolv.conf\fR is not being updated,
 check to see that the link is intact.
@@ -116,7 +120,7 @@ and nameserver 1.2.3.4 will handle everything else.
 .PP
 Subscribers that need to know only when the resolver configuration file
 has changed should install a script in \fI/etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/\fR
-rather than in \fI/etc/resolvconf/update.d/\fR.
+rather than in \fI%%PREFIX%%/etc/resolvconf/update.d/\fR.
 (This is important for synchronization purposes:
 scripts in \fIupdate-libc.d/\fR are run after resolv.conf has been updated;
 the same is not necessarily true of scripts in update.d/.)
@@ -154,26 +158,26 @@ List the interfaces that match the pattern otherwise all the interfaces.
 Echo variables NEWDOMAIN, NEWSEARCH and NEWNS to the console.
 .SH FILES
 .TP
-.I /etc/resolvconf/run
+.I %%PREFIX%%/etc/resolvconf/run
 This is either a directory where nameserver information can be stored
 or a symbolic link to such a directory.
 Clients should not make any assumptions about the canonical location
 of this directory or the hierarchy that is constructed under it.
 .TP
-.I /etc/resolvconf/interface-order
+.I %%PREFIX%%/etc/resolvconf/interface-order
 Determines the order in which nameserver information records are processed
 by resolvconf -l.
 .TP
-.I /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base
+.I %%PREFIX%%/etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base
 File containing basic resolver information.
 The lines in this file are included in the resolver configuration file
 even when no interfaces are configured.
 .TP
-.I /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head
+.I %%PREFIX%%/etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head
 File to be prepended to the dynamically generated resolver configuration file.
 Normally this is just a comment line.
 .TP
-.I /etc/resolvconf/reslov.conf.d/tail
+.I %%PREFIX%%/etc/resolvconf/reslov.conf.d/tail
 File to be appended to the dynamically generated resolver configuration file.
 To append nothing, make this an empty file.
 .SH BUGS