summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorFrancesco Mazzoli <francesco@rabbitmq.com>2012-08-24 15:15:49 +0100
committerFrancesco Mazzoli <francesco@rabbitmq.com>2012-08-24 15:15:49 +0100
commit1093ba0a920163d3549c1d7c887887d5de69fbe4 (patch)
tree98b19f959e0c56dee015ccfcd50a1fe47d7b4df6
parent6756fc90edf4f65a24bd9ec1b517fcd27cee2130 (diff)
downloadrabbitmq-server-25000.tar.gz
document the fact that -detached causes the wrong pid to be recorded25000
-rw-r--r--docs/rabbitmq-server.1.xml4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/rabbitmq-server.1.xml b/docs/rabbitmq-server.1.xml
index ca63927c..620b1dd3 100644
--- a/docs/rabbitmq-server.1.xml
+++ b/docs/rabbitmq-server.1.xml
@@ -109,7 +109,9 @@ Defaults to 5672.
<term>-detached</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- start the server process in the background
+ Start the server process in the background. Note that this will
+ cause the wrong pid to be recorded in the pid file, since the pid
+ of the shell that launches the detached process is captured.
</para>
<para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
<screen role="example">rabbitmq-server -detached</screen>