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| author | Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk> | 2015-01-31 21:59:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk> | 2015-01-31 21:59:13 +0000 |
| commit | 3d04f46334d0e345f589eda1372e638b946fe637 (patch) | |
| tree | ee5426dd9680465aa243875316e43d9c9ed3a214 | |
| parent | aff3396280e944833f0e23d834aa6acd5fe2605a (diff) | |
| download | dnsmasq-3d04f46334d0e345f589eda1372e638b946fe637.tar.gz | |
inotify documentation updates.
| -rw-r--r-- | man/dnsmasq.8 | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/dnsmasq.8 b/man/dnsmasq.8 index 005b5cc..c858323 100644 --- a/man/dnsmasq.8 +++ b/man/dnsmasq.8 @@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ Additional hosts file. Read the specified file as well as /etc/hosts. If -h is g only the specified file. This option may be repeated for more than one additional hosts file. If a directory is given, then read all the files contained in that directory. .TP +.B --hostsdir=<path> +Read all the hosts files contained in the directory. New or changed files +are read automatically. See --dhcp-hostsdir for details. +.TP .B \-E, --expand-hosts Add the domain to simple names (without a period) in /etc/hosts in the same way as for DHCP-derived names. Note that this does not @@ -979,12 +983,14 @@ dhcp-optsfile will be re-read when dnsmasq receives SIGHUP. Note that it is possible to encode the information in a .TP .B --dhcp-hostsdir=<path> -This is exactly equivalent to dhcp-hostfile, except for the following. The path MUST be a +This is equivalent to dhcp-hostsfile, except for the following. The path MUST be a directory, and not an individual file. Changed or new files within the directory are read automatically, without the need to send SIGHUP. If a file is deleted for changed after it has been read by dnsmasq, then the host record it contained will remain until dnsmasq recieves a SIGHUP, or is restarted; ie host records are only added dynamically. +.B --dhcp-optsdir=<path> +This is equivalent to dhcp-optsfile, with the differences noted for --dhcp-hostsdir. .TP .B --dhcp-boot flag as DHCP options, using the options names bootfile-name, @@ -1791,7 +1797,8 @@ clears its cache and then re-loads .I /etc/hosts and .I /etc/ethers -and any file given by --dhcp-hostsfile, --dhcp-optsfile or --addn-hosts. +and any file given by --dhcp-hostsfile, --dhcp-hostsdir, --dhcp-optsfile, +--dhcp-optsdir, --addn-hosts or --hostsdir. The dhcp lease change script is called for all existing DHCP leases. If .B |