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

diff --git a/utilities/ovs-appctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-appctl.8.in
index 38ed8c95bea46748a2d727eeefa1678708532aad..c2ed26b5d0eee1dba3521d5a95f5775fec0c4641 100644 (file)
--- a/utilities/ovs-appctl.8.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-appctl.8.in
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ ovs\-appctl \- utility for configuring running Open vSwitch daemons
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 Open vSwitch daemons accept certain commands at runtime to control their
 behavior and query their settings.  Every daemon accepts a common set of
-commands documented under \fBCOMMON COMMANDS\fR below, and
+commands documented under \fBCOMMON COMMANDS\fR below.  Some daemons
+support additional commands documented in their own manpages.
 \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR in particular accepts a number of additional
 commands documented in \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR(8).
 .PP
@@ -213,6 +214,10 @@ 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
@@ -227,7 +232,7 @@ 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).