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authorSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2009-10-15 16:54:15 +0300
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2009-10-15 16:54:15 +0300
commit289d283fe50f85411e6a9cca9389cd803ed88c95 (patch)
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More fixes.
* doc/pies.texi: More fixes. * pp-setup: Remove MFD leftovers.
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1 files changed, 27 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pies.texi b/doc/pies.texi
index e47f6a6..8569ab7 100644
--- a/doc/pies.texi
+++ b/doc/pies.texi
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ documents @command{pies} Version @value{VERSION}.
Appendices
+* User-Group ACLs::
* Copying This Manual:: The GNU Free Documentation License.
* Concept Index:: Index of Concepts.
@@ -184,20 +185,20 @@ component to handle that connection. In this case, the connection is
bound to component's @samp{stdin} and @samp{stdout} streams. The
@samp{stderr} stream can be redirected to a file or to syslog, as
described above. This mode of operation is similar to that of
-@command{inetd} utility.
+the @command{inetd} utility.
@anchor{meta1-style}
@cindex meta1-style components
@cindex smtps
- The third type of components, supported by @command{pies} are
-@dfn{meta1-style} components. As the name suggests this type is
+ Third type of components supported by @command{pies} are
+@dfn{meta1-style} components. As its name suggests, this type is
designed expressly as a support for MeTA1@footnote{See
@uref{http://www.meta1.org}} components, namely
@command{smtps}. This type can be regarded as a mixture of the above
two. For each meta1-style component @command{pies} opens a socket
after start-up, and then executes the component. Once the component
-is running, @command{pies} passes it the file descriptor of the
-socket, using a preconfigured @acronym{UNIX}-style socket. Further
+is running, @command{pies} passes it the file descriptor of that
+socket, through another preconfigured @acronym{UNIX}-style socket. Further
handling of the socket is the responsibility of the component itself.
@anchor{accept-style}
@@ -211,11 +212,11 @@ starts the component, without waiting for an actual connection.
simultaneously.
Components are started in the order of their appearance in the
-configuration file and terminated in the reverse order. When starting or
-stopping component dependencies, the same ordering is preserved.
+configuration file and terminated in the reverse order. The same
+ordering applies when starting or stopping a component dependencies,
- This order is reversed for files included by @code{include-meta1}
-statement (@pxref{include-meta1}).
+ As an exception, this order is reversed for the components read from
+files included by @code{include-meta1} statement (@pxref{include-meta1}).
@node Pies Configuration File
@chapter Pies Configuration File
@@ -227,16 +228,16 @@ statement (@pxref{include-meta1}).
configuration directory} (in most cases @file{/etc} or
@file{/usr/local/etc}, depending on how the package was compiled).
An alternative location may be specified using @option{--config-file}
-(@option{-c} command line option.
+(@option{-c} command line option).
If any errors are encountered in the configuration file, the program
-reports them on the standard error and exits with a non-zero status.
+reports them on the standard error and exits with status 78.
@xopindex{lint, introduced}
To test the configuration file without actually starting the server, the
@option{--lint} (@option{-t}) command line option is provided. It causes
@command{pies} to check its configuration file and exit with status 0
-if no errors were detected, and with status 1 otherwise.
+if no errors were detected, and with status 78 otherwise.
@cindex @option{-E}, introduced
Before parsing, configuration file is preprocessed using
@@ -302,11 +303,11 @@ occurrence of @samp{*/} (star, slash).
@cindex statement, simple
@cindex simple statements
A @dfn{simple statement} consists of a keyword and value
-separated by any amount of whitespace. Simple statement is terminated
+separated by any amount of whitespace. The simple statement is terminated
with a semicolon (@samp{;}), unless it contains a @dfn{here-document}
-(see below), in which case semicolon is optional.
+(see below), in which case the semicolon is optional.
- Examples of simple statements:
+ Examples of simple statements are:
@smallexample
pidfile /var/run/pies.pid;
@@ -355,12 +356,14 @@ with a single character according to the following rules:
@item \n @tab Newline character (@acronym{ASCII} 10)
@item \r @tab Carriage return character (@acronym{ASCII} 13)
@item \t @tab Horizontal tabulation character (@acronym{ASCII} 9)
+@item \v @tab Vertical tabulation character (@acronym{ASCII} 11)
@item \\ @tab A single backslash (@samp{\})
@item \" @tab A double-quote.
@end multitable
@end float
- In addition, the sequence @samp{\@var{newline}} is removed from
+ In addition, any occurrence of @samp{\} immediately followed by
+a newline character (@acronym{ASCII} 10) is removed from
the string. This allows to split long strings over several
physical lines, e.g.:
@@ -376,7 +379,7 @@ above, the backslash is ignored and a warning is issued.
Two or more adjacent quoted strings are concatenated, which gives
another way to split long strings over several lines to improve
-readability. The following fragment produces the same result as the
+readability. The following fragment produces the same result as in the
example above:
@smallexample
@@ -451,7 +454,7 @@ dependents (pmult, auth);
In any case where a list is appropriate, a single value is allowed
without being a member of a list: it is equivalent to a list with a
single member. This means that, e.g. @samp{dependents auth;} is
-equivalent to @samp{dependents (mime);}.
+equivalent to @samp{dependents (auth);}.
@end table
@@ -521,7 +524,7 @@ component @var{tag} @{
The component is identified by its @dfn{tag}, which is given as
argument to the @code{component} keyword.
-Following are the basic statements which are allowed within the
+The following are the basic statements which are allowed within the
@code{component} block:
@deffn {Config: component} mode @var{mode}
@@ -531,19 +534,19 @@ Following are the basic statements which are allowed within the
@table @asis
@item exec
@itemx wait
- Create an @samp{init-style} component (@pxref{init-style}). This is
+ Define an @samp{init-style} component (@pxref{init-style}). This is
the default.
@item inetd
@itemx nostartaccept
- Create an @samp{inetd-style} component (@pxref{inetd-style}).
+ Define an @samp{inetd-style} component (@pxref{inetd-style}).
@item pass
@itemx pass-fd
- Create a @samp{meta1-style} component (@pxref{meta1-style}).
+ Define a @samp{meta1-style} component (@pxref{meta1-style}).
@item accept
- Create a @samp{accept-style} component (@pxref{accept-style}).
+ Define a @samp{accept-style} component (@pxref{accept-style}).
@end table
@end deffn
@@ -625,7 +628,7 @@ component tags.
@node Component Privileges
@subsection Component Privileges
@cindex privileges
- Following statements control the privileges the component
+ The following statements control the privileges the component
is executed with.
@deffn {Config: component} user @var{user-name}

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