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nscd.conf.5: Add debug level description

PATCH In review Christian Aistleitner 2 participants 2 messages Mar 11, 2022 – Mar 14, 2022 Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 nscd.conf.5: Add debug level description

With only the default debug level documented, neither the possible range of the debug levels nor their purpose was apparent. This made it hard to use debug levels. So we add a short description of them.

Signed-off-by Christian Aistleitner <[email protected]>
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 man5/nscd.conf.5 | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
man5/nscd.conf.5 +4 -0
index 7356bf7..c84d79a 100644
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ Specifies name of the file to which debug info should be written.
 .I value
 .RS
 Sets the desired debug level.
+0 hides debug info.
+1 shows general debug info.
+2 additionally shows data in cache dumps.
+3 (and above) shows all debug info.
 The default is 0.
 .RE
 .PP
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Hi Christian,

Quoted 5 lines · Christian Aistleitner

With only the default debug level documented, neither the possible range of the debug levels nor their purpose was apparent. This made it hard to use debug levels. So we add a short description of them.

Signed-off-by Christian Aistleitner <[email protected]>

Patch applied!

Thanks,

Alex

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 man5/nscd.conf.5 | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
man5/nscd.conf.5 +4 -0
index 7356bf7..c84d79a 100644
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ Specifies name of the file to which debug info should be written.
 .I value
 .RS
 Sets the desired debug level.
+0 hides debug info.
+1 shows general debug info.
+2 additionally shows data in cache dumps.
+3 (and above) shows all debug info.
 The default is 0.
 .RE
 .PP
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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/