[PATCH v2] kdumpctl: Add man page for kdumpctl

Dangyi Liu dliu at redhat.com
Tue Aug 18 04:46:36 UTC 2015


Thank you, Pratyush. I'll send the patch again.

Dangyi

On Tue, 2015-08-18 at 09:42 +0530, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> Hi Dangyi,
> 
> It looks almost fine to me. However, a little bit of nitpick...
> 
> On 17/08/2015:05:04:23 PM, Dangyi Liu wrote:
> 
> Even if its trivial, at least a line about patch is always good to
> have.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Dangyi Liu <dliu at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  kdumpctl.8       | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  kexec-tools.spec |  2 ++
> >  2 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 kdumpctl.8
> > 
> > diff --git a/kdumpctl.8 b/kdumpctl.8
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..14d714a
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/kdumpctl.8
> > @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
> > +.TH KDUMPCTL 8 2015-07-13 kexec-tools
> > +
> > +.SH NAME
> > +kdumpctl \- control interface for kdump
> > +
> > +.SH SYNOPSIS
> > +.B kdumpctl
> > +.I COMMAND
> > +
> > +.SH DESCRIPTION
> > +.B kdumpctl
> > +is used to check or control the kdump service.
> > +In most case, you should use
> 
> Should be "In most cases"
> 
> > +.B systemctl
> > +to start / stop / enable kdump service instead. However,
> > +.B kdumpctl
> > +provides more details for debug and a helper to setup ssh key
> > authentication.
> > +
> > +.SH COMMANDS
> > +.TP
> > +.I start
> > +Start the service.
> > +.TP
> > +.I stop
> > +Stop the service.
> > +.TP
> > +.I status
> > +Prints the current status of kdump service.
> > +It returns non-zero value if kdump is not operational.
> > +.TP
> > +.I restart
> > +Is equal to
> > +.I start; stop
> > +.TP
> > +.I propagate
> > +Helps to setup key authentication for ssh storage since it's
> > +impossible to use password authentication during kdump.
> > +
> > +.SH "SEE ALSO"
> > +.BR kdump.conf (5),
> > +.BR mkdumprd (8)
> > diff --git a/kexec-tools.spec b/kexec-tools.spec
> > index a2e39f8..5b99c83 100644
> > --- a/kexec-tools.spec
> > +++ b/kexec-tools.spec
> > @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Source22: kdump-dep-generator.sh
> >  Source23: kdump-anaconda-addon-005-12-g60fa4c1.tar.gz
> >  Source24: kdump-lib-initramfs.sh
> >  Source25: kdump.sysconfig.ppc64le
> > +Source26: kdumpctl.8
> >  
> >  #######################################
> >  # These are sources for mkdumpramfs
> > @@ -159,6 +160,7 @@ install -m 755 %{SOURCE7}
> > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/sbin/mkdumprd
> >  install -m 644 %{SOURCE8} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/kdump.conf
> >  install -m 644 kexec/kexec.8
> > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man8/kexec.8
> >  install -m 644 %{SOURCE12}
> > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man8/mkdumprd.8
> > +install -m 644 %{SOURCE26}
> > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man8/kdumpctl.8
> >  install -m 755 %{SOURCE20}
> > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/lib/kdump/kdump-lib.sh
> >  install -m 755 %{SOURCE24}
> > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/lib/kdump/kdump-lib-initramfs.sh
> >  %ifnarch s390x


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