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authorBen Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>2016-02-03 13:41:34 -0800
committerBen Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>2016-02-10 13:36:04 -0800
commit063801288e2b1c98026d7faa81de9959eee678a3 (patch)
tree49a423c1b28e233555fbf2efb4a956508304c970 /utilities
parent922fed065e65ad8388528976d631445f9e768f55 (diff)
downloadopenvswitch-063801288e2b1c98026d7faa81de9959eee678a3.tar.gz
vlog: Add vlog/close command.
Requested-by: P R Dinesh Requested-at: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/pull/94 Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> Acked-by: Russell Bryant <russell@ovn.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'utilities')
-rw-r--r--utilities/ovs-appctl.8.in10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-appctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-appctl.8.in
index f477534eb..0eda7f222 100644
--- a/utilities/ovs-appctl.8.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-appctl.8.in
@@ -265,10 +265,14 @@ Sets the RFC5424 facility of the log message. \fIfacility\fR can be one of
\fBlocal2\fR, \fBlocal3\fR, \fBlocal4\fR, \fBlocal5\fR, \fBlocal6\fR or
\fBlocal7\fR.
.
+.IP "\fBvlog/close\fR"
+Causes the daemon to close its log file, if it is open. (Use
+\fBvlog/reopen\fR to reopen it later.)
+.
.IP "\fBvlog/reopen\fR"
-Causes the daemon to close and reopen its log file. (This
-is useful after rotating log files, to cause a new log file to be
-used.)
+Causes the daemon to close its log file, if it is open, and then
+reopen it. (This is useful after rotating log files, to cause a new
+log file to be used.)
.IP
This has no effect if the target application was not invoked with the
\fB\-\-log\-file\fR option.