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authorGerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>2005-12-18 11:19:03 +0000
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@@ -33,23 +33,21 @@ groups are removed. </dd>
 <dt><b>-U <i>user[:group]</b> </i></dt>
 <dd>envuidgid. Set the environment variables
 $UID and $GID to the <i>user</i>&rsquo;s uid and gid. If <i>user</i> is followed by a colon and
-a <i>group</i>, set $GID to the <i>group</i>&rsquo;s gid instead of <i>user</i>&rsquo;s gid. If <i>group</i> consists
-of a colon-separated list of group names, <b>chpst</b> sets the group ids of all
-listed groups. All initial supplementary groups are removed. </dd>
+a <i>group</i>, set $GID to the <i>group</i>&rsquo;s gid instead of <i>user</i>&rsquo;s gid. </dd>
 
 <dt><b>-e <i>dir</b> </i></dt>
-<dd>envdir.
-Set various environment variables as specified by files in the directory
-<i>dir</i>: If <i>dir</i> contains a file named <i>k</i> whose first line is <i>v</i>, <b>chpst</b> removes
-the environment variable <i>k</i> if it exists, and then adds the environment
-variable <i>k</i> with the value <i>v</i>. The name <i>k</i> must not contain =. Spaces and tabs
-at the end of <i>v</i> are removed, and nulls in <i>v</i> are changed to newlines. If
-the file <i>k</i> is empty (0 bytes long), <b>chpst</b> removes the environment variable
-<i>k</i> if it exists, without adding a new variable. </dd>
+<dd>envdir. Set
+various environment variables as specified by files in the directory <i>dir</i>:
+If <i>dir</i> contains a file named <i>k</i> whose first line is <i>v</i>, <b>chpst</b> removes the
+environment variable <i>k</i> if it exists, and then adds the environment variable
+<i>k</i> with the value <i>v</i>. The name <i>k</i> must not contain =. Spaces and tabs at the
+end of <i>v</i> are removed, and nulls in <i>v</i> are changed to newlines. If the file
+<i>k</i> is empty (0 bytes long), <b>chpst</b> removes the environment variable <i>k</i> if
+it exists, without adding a new variable. </dd>
 
 <dt><b>-/ <i>root</b> </i></dt>
-<dd>chroot. Change the
-root directory to <i>root</i> before starting <i>prog</i>. </dd>
+<dd>chroot. Change the root
+directory to <i>root</i> before starting <i>prog</i>. </dd>
 
 <dt><b>-n <i>inc</b> </i></dt>
 <dd>nice. Add <i>inc</i> to the <i><b>nice</b>(2)</i>
@@ -112,12 +110,12 @@ with wrong options. It prints an error message and exits 111 if it has trouble
 changing the process state. Otherwise its exit code is the same as that
 of <i>prog</i>. 
 <h2><a name='sect5'>Emulation</a></h2>
-If <b>chpst</b> is called as <i><b>envdir</b>(8)</i>, <i><b>envuidgid</b>(8)</i>, <i><b>pgrphack</b>(8)</i>,
-<i><b>setlock</b>(8)</i>, <i><b>setuidgid</b>(8)</i>, or <i><b>softlimit</b>(8)</i>, it emulates the functionality
-of these programs from the daemontools package respectively. 
+If <b>chpst</b> is called as <b>envdir</b>, <b>envuidgid</b>, <b>pgrphack</b>, <b>setlock</b>,
+<b>setuidgid</b>, or <b>softlimit</b>, it emulates the functionality of these programs
+from the daemontools package respectively. 
 <h2><a name='sect6'>See Also</a></h2>
-<i>runsv(8)</i>,
-<i>runsvctrl(8)</i>, <i>runsvstat(8)</i>, <i>runsvdir(8)</i>, <i>setsid(2)</i> <p>
+<i>sv(8)</i>, <i>runsv(8)</i>, <i>setsid(2)</i>,
+<i>runit(8)</i>, <i>runit-init(8)</i>, <i>runsvdir(8)</i>, <i>runsvchdir(8)</i> <p>
  <i>http://smarden.org/runit/</i><br>
   <i>http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html</i><br>