ip: update man pages and usage() for 'ip monitor'

Sync with the current code.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
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Nicolas Dichtel 2012-12-17 17:41:27 +01:00 committed by Stephen Hemminger
parent 743a00a72b
commit cbe195dc6b
2 changed files with 13 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ int prefix_banner;
static void usage(void)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ip monitor [ all | LISTofOBJECTS ]\n");
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ip monitor [ all | LISTofOBJECTS ] [ FILE ]\n");
fprintf(stderr, "LISTofOBJECTS := link | address | route | mroute | prefix |\n");
fprintf(stderr, " neigh | netconf\n");
fprintf(stderr, "FILE := file FILENAME\n");
exit(-1);
}

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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.TH IP\-MONITOR 8 "20 Dec 2011" "iproute2" "Linux"
.TH IP\-MONITOR 8 "13 Dec 2012" "iproute2" "Linux"
.SH "NAME"
ip-monitor, rtmon \- state monitoring
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ ip-monitor, rtmon \- state monitoring
.ad l
.in +8
.ti -8
.BR "ip monitor" " [ " all " |"
.IR LISTofOBJECTS " ]"
.BR "ip " " [ ip-OPTIONS ] " "monitor" " [ " all " |"
.IR LISTofOBJECTS " ] [ file " FILENAME " ]
.sp
.SH DESCRIPTION
@ -20,12 +20,13 @@ Namely, the
command is the first in the command line and then the object list follows:
.BR "ip monitor" " [ " all " |"
.IR LISTofOBJECTS " ]"
.IR LISTofOBJECTS " ] [ file " FILENAME " ]
.I OBJECT-LIST
is the list of object types that we want to monitor.
It may contain
.BR link ", " address " and " route "."
.BR link ", " address ", " route ", " mroute ", " prefix ", "
.BR neigh " and " netconf "."
If no
.B file
argument is given,
@ -34,7 +35,9 @@ opens RTNETLINK, listens on it and dumps state changes in the format
described in previous sections.
.P
If a file name is given, it does not listen on RTNETLINK,
If a
.I FILENAME
is given, it does not listen on RTNETLINK,
but opens the file containing RTNETLINK messages saved in binary format
and dumps them. Such a history file can be generated with the
.B rtmon