X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/tripe/blobdiff_plain/85b239ad6c917a76b8ab81fc182c03d28255bdcb..ae8928d2ffbfa3b9dba70bc2f70379ddc20947dc:/client/tripectl.1.in diff --git a/client/tripectl.1.in b/client/tripectl.1.in index 4c6777e1..33e56cc9 100644 --- a/client/tripectl.1.in +++ b/client/tripectl.1.in @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ tripectl \- simple client for TrIPE .RI [ args ]...] .br .B tripectl -.RB [ \-Dl ] +.RB [ \-Dlt ] .RB [ \-f .IR file ] .RB [ \-\fIoptions ] @@ -223,12 +223,26 @@ trace messages are logged with severity .BI "\-f, \-\-logfile=" file Write warnings and trace messages to .IR file . -On receipt of a +The +.I file +may be +.RB ` \- ' +to request output to stdout, or +.RB ` ! ' +to request output to stderr. If a proper filename is given (rather than +one of these special tokens), then on receipt of a .B SIGHUP signal, .B tripectl -will close its log file and reopen a new one with the same name. This -is useful when you rotate logs. +will close its log file and reopen a new one with the same name; this is +useful when you rotate logs. +.TP +.B "\-t, \-\-no-timestamp" +When logging to a file (with +.BR \-f ), +don't prefix log items with a timestamp. This is useful when the log +output is being captured by some process which will add its own +timestamps anyway. .TP .B "\-w, \-\-warnings" Write warnings to standard error even when running noninteractively.