CC: Yu Zhiguo <yuzg@cn.fujitsu.com>
.TP
-\fB--pidfile\fR[\fB=\fIpidfile\fR]
+\fB\-\-pidfile\fR[\fB=\fIpidfile\fR]
Causes a file (by default, \fB\*(PN.pid\fR) to be created indicating
-the PID of the running process. If \fIpidfile\fR is not specified, or
+the PID of the running process. If the \fIpidfile\fR argument is not
+specified, or
if it does not begin with \fB/\fR, then it is created in
\fB@RUNDIR@\fR.
+.IP
+If \fB--pidfile\fR is not specified, no pidfile is created.
.
.TP
\fB--overwrite-pidfile\fR