[Pkg-sysvinit-commits] r1406 - in sysvinit-upstream/trunk: doc man src

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at alioth.debian.org
Fri Jul 10 19:02:18 UTC 2009


Author: pere
Date: 2009-07-10 19:02:17 +0000 (Fri, 10 Jul 2009)
New Revision: 1406

Modified:
   sysvinit-upstream/trunk/doc/Changelog
   sysvinit-upstream/trunk/man/init.8
   sysvinit-upstream/trunk/src/init.c
Log:
Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).

Modified: sysvinit-upstream/trunk/doc/Changelog
===================================================================
--- sysvinit-upstream/trunk/doc/Changelog	2009-07-10 18:59:21 UTC (rev 1405)
+++ sysvinit-upstream/trunk/doc/Changelog	2009-07-10 19:02:17 UTC (rev 1406)
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
   * Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages.
   * Correct section of mountpoint(1).
+  * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
 
  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at debian.org>  Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:14:58 +0200
 

Modified: sysvinit-upstream/trunk/man/init.8
===================================================================
--- sysvinit-upstream/trunk/man/init.8	2009-07-10 18:59:21 UTC (rev 1405)
+++ sysvinit-upstream/trunk/man/init.8	2009-07-10 19:02:17 UTC (rev 1406)
@@ -12,12 +12,15 @@
 .RB [ " -a " ]
 .RB [ " -s " ]
 .RB [ " -b " ]
-.RB [ " -z xxx " ]
+[ \fB\-z\fP \fIxxx\fP ]
 .RB [ " 0123456Ss " ]
 .br
 .B /sbin/telinit
-.RB [ " \-t sec " ]
+[ \fB\-t\fP \fISECONDS\fP ]
 .RB [ " 0123456sSQqabcUu " ]
+.br
+.B /sbin/telinit
+[ \fB\-e\fP \fIVAR\fP[\fB=\fP\fIVAL\fP] ]
 .\"}}}
 .\"{{{  Description
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -141,13 +144,22 @@
 tell \fBinit\fP to switch to single user mode.
 .IP "\fBU\fP or \fBu\fP"
 tell \fBinit\fP to re-execute itself (preserving the state). No re-examining of 
-\fB/etc/inittab\fP file happens. Run level should be one of \fBSs12345\fP,
+\fB/etc/inittab\fP file happens. Run level should be one of
+\fBSs12345\fP
 otherwise request would be silently ignored.
 .PP
-\fBtelinit\fP can also tell \fBinit\fP how long it should wait
+\fBtelinit\fP can tell \fBinit\fP how long it should wait
 between sending processes the SIGTERM and SIGKILL signals.  The default
-is 5 seconds, but this can be changed with the \fB-t sec\fP option.
+is 5 seconds, but this can be changed with the \fB-t\fP option.
 .PP
+\fBtelinit -e\fP tells \fBinit\fP to change the environment
+for processes it spawns.
+The argument of \fB-e\fP is either of the form \fIVAR\fP=\fIVAL\fP
+which sets variable \fIVAR\fP to value \fIVAL\fP,
+or of the form \fIVAR\fP
+(without an equality sign)
+which unsets variable \fIVAR\fP.
+.PP
 \fBtelinit\fP can be invoked only by users with appropriate
 privileges.
 .PP
@@ -198,8 +210,8 @@
 command line manually.
 .PP
 .TP 0.5i
-.B -z xxx
-The argument to -z is ignored. You can use this to expand the command
+.BI "-z " xxx
+The argument to \fB-z\fP is ignored. You can use this to expand the command
 line a bit, so that it takes some more space on the stack. \fBInit\fP
 can then manipulate the command line so that \fBps\fP(1) shows
 the current runlevel.

Modified: sysvinit-upstream/trunk/src/init.c
===================================================================
--- sysvinit-upstream/trunk/src/init.c	2009-07-10 18:59:21 UTC (rev 1405)
+++ sysvinit-upstream/trunk/src/init.c	2009-07-10 19:02:17 UTC (rev 1406)
@@ -2495,7 +2495,7 @@
  */
 void usage(char *s)
 {
-	fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s 0123456SsQqAaBbCcUu\n", s);
+	fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s {-e VAR[=VAL] | [-t SECONDS] {0|1|2|3|4|5|6|S|s|Q|q|A|a|B|b|C|c|U|u}}\n", s);
 	exit(1);
 }
 




More information about the Pkg-sysvinit-commits mailing list