config: Add explicit support for building on ESX.

[openvswitch] / utilities / ovs-appctl.8.in

diff --git a/utilities/ovs-appctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-appctl.8.in
index 4606f57fe497740163f2e62c78251c20571b5056..7edd1823455c6191c7090bdfd0f2f98d7bff5c7f 100644 (file)
--- a/utilities/ovs-appctl.8.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-appctl.8.in
@@ -187,6 +187,16 @@ The program's process ID (pid), as a decimal number.
 The number of milliseconds elapsed from the start of the application
 to the time the message was logged.
 .
+.IP \fB%t\fR
+The subprogram name, that is, an identifying name for the process or
+thread that emitted the log message, such as \fBmonitor\fR for the
+process used for \fB\-\-monitor\fR or \fBmain\fR for the primary
+process or thread in a program.
+.
+.IP \fB%T\fR
+The subprogram name enclosed in parentheses, e.g. \fB(monitor)\fR, or
+the empty string for the primary process or thread in a program.
+.
 .IP \fB%%\fR
 A literal \fB%\fR.
 .RE
@@ -214,6 +224,10 @@ width.  (A field wider than \fIwidth\fR is not truncated to fit.)
 The default pattern for console and file output is \fB%D{%Y-%m-%dT
 %H:%M:%SZ}|%05N|%c|%p|%m\fR; for syslog output, \fB%05N|%c|%p|%m\fR.
 .
+.IP
+Daemons written in Python (e.g. \fBovs\-xapi\-sync\fR,
+\fBovs\-monitor\-ipsec) do not allow control over the log pattern.
+.
 .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
@@ -228,7 +242,7 @@ This has no effect if the target application was not invoked with the
 .
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .
-\fBovs\-appctl\fR can control the following daemons:
+\fBovs\-appctl\fR can control all Open vSwitch daemons, including:
 .BR ovs\-vswitchd (8),
-.BR ovs\-controller (8),
-.BR ovs\-brcompatd (8).
+and
+.BR ovsdb\-server (8).