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  • cherokee/trunk/cherokee.1

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    1313.\" the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. 
    1414.\" 
    15 .TH cherokee 1 "August 31, 2008" 
     15.TH Cherokee 1 "August 04, 2008" 
    1616.\" Please update the above date whenever this man page is modified. 
    1717.\" 
    …… 
    2727.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) 
    2828.SH NAME 
    29 cherokee \- Cherokee web server safe invoker 
     29cherokee \- Cherokee Web Server 
    3030.SH SYNOPSIS 
    31 .B cherokee 
     31.B cherokee [options] 
    3232.SH DESCRIPTION 
    33 \fBCherokee\fP is an extremely fast, flexible and embeddable web 
    34 server.  \fBcherokee\fP is the recommended way to invoke 
    35 cherokee-worker - It will launch Cherokee with any options specified to it 
    36 via the command line, and monitor it. In case Cherokee ends 
    37 abnormally, it will be immediately re-launched. 
    38 .PP 
    39 This program was previously called cherokee\-guardian, but became the 
    40 main binary to invoke Cherokee since release 0.9. 
     33\fBcherokee\fP is an extremely fast, flexible and embeddable web server. 
     34.\" .PP 
     35.\" It also... 
     36.SH OPTIONS 
     37This command will launch the Cherokee webserver. It accepts the 
     38following options: 
     39.TP 8 
     40.B \-h, --help 
     41Prints a brief help message and terminates execution 
     42.TP 8 
     43.B \-V, --version 
     44Prints Cherokee's version and terminates execution 
     45.TP 8 
     46.B \-t, --test 
     47Perform a sanity check on the configuration file. The server will not run. 
     48.TP 8 
     49.B \-d, --detach 
     50Launches the server as a background process (default behaviour is to 
     51stay attached to the controlling terminal). 
     52.TP 8 
     53.B \-C, --config=PATH 
     54Specifies an alternative path for the configuration file to use instead 
     55of the default cherokee.conf 
     56.TP 8 
     57.B \-p, --port=PORT 
     58TCP port number to which the server will listen. 
     59.TP 8 
     60.B \-r, --documentroot=PATH 
     61Launches a server exposing statically the specified directory. When 
     62launched with \-r, the configuration file is ignored, and the Cherokee 
     63instance runs with its default values. 
     64.TP 8 
     65.B \-i, --print 
     66Print server technical information. 
     67.SH SIGNALS 
     68The following signals are supported by Cherokee: 
     69.TP 8 
     70\fBSIGHUP\fR,  Restarts the server gracefully 
     71.TP 8 
     72\fBSIGUSR1\fR, Restarts the server closing all the opened connections 
     73.TP 8 
     74\fBSIGUSR2\fR, Reopens the log files 
     75.TP 8 
     76\fBSIGTERM\fR, Exits 
    4177.SH BUGS 
    4278.SS Bug reports 
    …… 
    4480would also like to hear from you if you have successfully used Cherokee, 
    4581especially if you are using it for a distribution. 
     82.PP 
     83Report bugs to  
     84.B http://bugs.cherokee-project.com 
    4685.PP 
    4786There is a mailing list for discussion among Cherokee users and for 
    …… 
    5392in the body of the message. The submission address is cherokee@cherokee-project.com. 
    5493.SH "SEE ALSO" 
    55 For information on the options which Cherokee itself accepts, 
    56 please refer to  \&\fIcherokee\-worker\fR\|(1) 
     94 
     95Cherokee can be run also with the either this command or 
     96\&\fIcherokee-worker\fR\|(1).  This last option is discouraged if you 
     97are not developing though. 
    5798. 
    58 Note that in in Debian systems, a startup/shutdown script 
     99Note that most of the systems, a startup/shutdown script such as  
    59100/etc/init.d/cherokee is provided, and will probably be the most 
    60101convenient invocation method.