daemontools-man-0.76

Introduction to daemontools-man

The daemontools package does not come with man pages, so install this package if you want online help with the daemontools programs.

Package information

Installation of daemontools-man

Install daemontools-man by running the following commands:

cd daemontools-man && 
gzip -9 *.8 &&
package/compile &&
cp *.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/

Command explanations

gzip -9 *.8: You can compress the man pages to save space, but it isn't needed for the man pages to work.

Contents

The daemontools-man package contains man pages for the daemontools commands envdir, envuidgid, fghack, multilog, pgrphack, readproctitle, setlock, setuidgid, softlimit, supervise, svc, svok, svscan, svscanboot, svstat, tai64n and tai64nlocal.