From c2761c3fce17025663afe1d7016c156eead77659 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:38:10 +0000
Subject:   * chpst.c: adjust nice value and set limits before dropping
 permissions.   * sv.c: new additional command 'check'; with -v check for CONT
 through     ./check if service is up.   * man/sv.8: adapt. 1.3.3.

---
 man/sv.8 | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man')

diff --git a/man/sv.8 b/man/sv.8
index 419dfb6..59be1dc 100644
--- a/man/sv.8
+++ b/man/sv.8
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ to be controlled then is specified by the base name of the ``init script''.
 .SH COMMANDS
 .TP
 .B status
-Report the current status of the service to standard output.
+Report the current status of the service, and the appendant log service if
+available, to standard output.
 .TP
 .B up
 If the service is not running, start it.
@@ -181,13 +182,29 @@ process to terminate.
 Then report the status, and on timeout send the service the
 .I kill
 command.
+.SH Additional Commands
+.TP
+.B check
+Check for the service to be in the state that's been requested.
+Wait up to 7 seconds for the service to reach the requested state, then
+report the status or timeout.
+If the requested state of the service is
+.IR up ,
+and the script
+.I ./check
+exists in the service directory,
+.B sv
+runs this script to check whether the service is up and running; it's
+considered to be up if
+.I ./check
+exits with 0.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .B \-v
 If the
 .I command
-is up, down, term, once, or exit, then wait up to 7 seconds for the command
-to take effect.
+is up, down, term, once, cont, or exit, then wait up to 7 seconds for the
+command to take effect.
 Then report the status or timeout.
 .TP
 .B \-w \fIsec
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