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@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ for performance reasons. .SH OPTIONS +Unless otherwise noted below, \fBif conflicting or multiple options are given, +the last one takes effect.\fR + .TP .BR \-d ", " \-\-debug Be verbose, don't log to the system logger. @@ -97,10 +100,21 @@ Log to standard error too. Default is to log to the system logger only, if started from an interactive terminal, and to both system logger and standard error otherwise. +This option cannot be specified together with \fB--log-file\fR, because there +might be a reasonable expectation that messages are logged to standard error as +well as to a file, which is however not supported. + .TP .BR \-l ", " \-\-log-file " " \fIPATH\fR Log to file \fIPATH\fR, not to standard error, and not to the system logger. +This option cannot be specified together with \fB--stderr\fR, because there +might be a reasonable expectation that messages are logged to a file as well as +to standard error, which is however not supported. + +Specifying this option multiple times does \fInot\fR lead to multiple log files: +the last given option takes effect. + .TP .BR \-\-log-size " " \fISIZE\fR Limit log file size to \fISIZE\fR bytes. When the log file is full, make room @@ -128,6 +142,9 @@ Show version and exit. Capture tap-facing (that is, guest-side or namespace-side) network packets to \fIfile\fR in \fBpcap\fR format. +Specifying this option multiple times does \fInot\fR lead to multiple capture +files: the last given option takes effect. + .TP .BR \-P ", " \-\-pid " " \fIfile Write own PID to \fIfile\fR once initialisation is done, before forking to |