[Pkg-corba-commits] r190 - /trunk/omniorb/debian/omniNames.8

[flub-guest at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: flub-guest
Date: Sat Jul  4 12:34:22 2009
New Revision: 190

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-corba/?sc=1&rev=190
Log:
Update manpage.

Modified:
    trunk/omniorb/debian/omniNames.8

Modified: trunk/omniorb/debian/omniNames.8
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-corba/trunk/omniorb/debian/omniNames.8?rev=190&op=diff
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--- trunk/omniorb/debian/omniNames.8 (original)
+++ trunk/omniorb/debian/omniNames.8 Sat Jul  4 12:34:22 2009
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
 omniNames \- OmniORB Interoperable Naming Service
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B omniNames
-.RI [ options ] [ omniORB-options ]
+.RI [ options ]
+.RI [ omniORB-options ]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 This manual page documents briefly the
 .B omniNames
@@ -28,10 +29,19 @@
 .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and
 .\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, 
 .\" respectively.
-\fBomniNames\fP is omniORBs Interoperable Naming Service for CORBA.
+\fBomniNames\fP is omniORBs Interoperable Naming Service for CORBA,
+an implementation of the OMG's COS Naming Service Specification.
 To make it easy to use \fBomniNames\fP with \fIcorbaname\fP URIs, it
 starts with the default port of 2809 and an object key of
 \fINameService\fP for the root naming context.
+.PP
+When started for the first time \fBomniNames\fP needs to be told which port
+it should listen on.  This is specified with the \fI\-start\fP option.
+Subsequentley \fBomniNames\fP will always determine its port from the log
+file which it writes.
+.PP
+When omniNames starts up successfully it writes the stringified object
+reference for its root context on standard error.
 .SH OPTIONS
 A summary of options is included below.
 For a complete description, see the HTML pages included in the
@@ -55,6 +65,9 @@
 OMNINAMES_LOGDIR
 Alternate way to specify the directory where the log/data files are
 kept.
+.TP
+OMNINAMES_ITBC
+Idle time between checkpoints in seconds.  It defaults to 15 minutes.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR omniMapper (8).
 .br