From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 01:01:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: describe dump and dryrun
X-Git-Tag: ppp-2.4.7~498
X-Git-Url: http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=ppp.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=8f4eec837744bbcd19dca09347640b104fdd5e5e;hp=c64ecb3a2bab4543f7916ad87a011f11265c7e55

describe dump and dryrun
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diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8
index 14939c9..baf3da5 100644
--- a/pppd/pppd.8
+++ b/pppd/pppd.8
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" manual page [] for pppd 2.4
-.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.55 2001/02/22 03:10:05 paulus Exp $
+.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.56 2001/03/09 01:01:26 paulus Exp $
 .\" SH section heading
 .\" SS subsection heading
 .\" LP paragraph
@@ -298,6 +298,19 @@ specify \fIdomain Quotron.COM\fR.  Pppd would then use the name
 and as the default name to send to the peer when authenticating itself
 to the peer.  This option is privileged.
 .TP
+.B dryrun
+With the \fBdryrun\fR option, pppd will print out all the option
+values which have been set and then exit, after parsing the command
+line and options files and checking the option values, but before
+initiating the link.  The option values are logged at level info, and
+also printed to standard output unless the device on standard output
+is the device that pppd would be using to communicate with the peer.
+.TP
+.B dump
+With the \fBdump\fR option, pppd will print out all the option values
+which have been set.  This option is like the \fBdryrun\fR option
+except that pppd proceeds as normal rather than exiting.
+.TP
 .B endpoint \fI<epdisc>
 Sets the endpoint discriminator sent by the local machine to the peer
 during multilink negotiation to \fI<epdisc>\fR.  The default is to use