From: Benno Schulenberg Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:24:02 +0000 (+0200) Subject: uuidd: (man page) alphabetize the options X-Git-Tag: v2.20~25 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c48d969b37bc9cbb1f1682cbccaad15dec5efe46;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git uuidd: (man page) alphabetize the options --- diff --git a/misc-utils/uuidd.8 b/misc-utils/uuidd.8 index 6df4ee57ff..8e82b10b7e 100644 --- a/misc-utils/uuidd.8 +++ b/misc-utils/uuidd.8 @@ -17,10 +17,32 @@ in a secure and guaranteed-unique fashion, even in the face of large numbers of threads running on different CPUs trying to grab UUIDs. .SH OPTIONS .TP +.B \-d +Run uuidd in debugging mode. This prevents uuidd from running as a daemon. +.TP +.BR \-h , " \-\-help " +Display help screen and exit. +.TP +.BR \-k , " \-\-kill " +If currently a uuidd daemon is running, kill it. +.TP +.BR \-n , " \-\-uuids " \fInumber\fR +When issuing a test request to a running uuidd, request a bulk response +of +.I number +UUIDs. +.TP .BR \-p , " \-\-pid " \fIpath\fR Specify the pathname where the pid file should be written. By default, the pid file is written to /var/run/uuidd/uuidd.pid. .TP +.B \-q +Suppress some failure messages. +.TP +.BR \-r , " \-\-random " +Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and +request it to return a random-based UUID. +.TP .BR \-s , " \-\-socket " \fIpath\fR Specify the pathname used for the unix-domain socket used by uuidd. By default, the pathname used is /var/run/uuidd/request. This is primarily @@ -32,34 +54,12 @@ Specify a timeout for uuidd. If specified, then uuidd will exit after .I timeout seconds of inactivity. .TP -.BR \-k , " \-\-kill " -If currently a uuidd daemon is running, kill it. -.TP -.BR \-r , " \-\-random " -Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and -request it to return a random-based UUID. -.TP .BR \-t , " \-\-time " Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and request it to return a time-based UUID. .TP -.BR \-n , " \-\-uuids " \fInumber\fR -When issuing a test request to a running uuidd, request a bulk response -of -.I number -UUIDs. -.TP -.B \-d -Run uuidd in debugging mode. This prevents uuidd from running as a daemon. -.TP -.BI \-q -Suppress some failure messages. -.TP .BR \-V , " \-\-version " Output version information and exit. -.TP -.BR \-h , " \-\-help " -Display help screen and exit. .SH EXAMPLE Start up a daemon, print 42 random keys, and then stop the daemon. .PP