[\fIoptions\fR] \fIdatabase\fR
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.SH DESCRIPTION
-A daemon that provides a legacy bridge front-end for \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR. It
-does this by listening for bridge ioctl commands (e.g., those generated by
-the \fBbrctl\fR program) to add or remove datapaths and the interfaces
-that attach to them.
+A daemon that provides a legacy bridge front-end for \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR. It
+does this by listening for bridge ioctl commands (e.g., those generated by
+the \fBbrctl\fR program) to add or remove datapaths and the interfaces
+that attach to them.
.PP
The mandatory \fIdatabase\fR argument specifies the
\fBovsdb\-server\fR from which \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR's configuration is
\fB\-\-prune\-timeout=\fIsecs\fR
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Sets the maximum time between pruning port entries to \fIsecs\fR seconds.
-Pruning ports is the process of removing port entries from \fIdatabase\fR
+Pruning ports is the process of removing port entries from \fIdatabase\fR
that no longer exist. If \fIsecs\fR is zero, then entries are never
pruned. The default prune timeout is 5 seconds.
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