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diff --git a/debian/lcd4linux.8 b/debian/lcd4linux.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4674552 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/lcd4linux.8 @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +.TH VERSION "8" "August 2006" "http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/" "System Administration Utilities" +.SH NAME +Version \- daemon for ''lcd'' display devices +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B lcd4linux [\fIOPTIONS...\fR] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +LCD4Linux is a small program that grabs information from the kernel and +some subsystems and displays it on an external liquid crystal display. +.PP +If started without any options, it will try to read its configuration from +\fB/etc/lcd4linux.conf\fR and daemonize. Please make sure your configuration file +is owned by the user you run lcd4linux (typically \fIroot\fR) and has permissions +\fB600\fR +.TP +\fB\-f\fR +Alternate configuration file to read. Use this switch to make lcd4linux read another +file than /etc/lcd4linux.conf +.TP +\fB\-F\fR +Run in forground and don't daemonize. Useful for debugging. +.TP +\fB\-c\fR \fIarg\fR +allows to overwrite entries in the config-file from the command line. arg is 'key=value' +.TP +\fB\-h\fR +shows a really short usage of lcd4linux +.TP +\fB\-i\fR +starts lcd4linux in interactive mode. Can be used multiple times +.TP +\fB\-l\fR +Prints a list of supported displays +.TP +\fB\-o\fR +Specifies an output file (see http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/ for details) +.TP +\fB\-q\fR +makes lcd4linux more quiet. Can be used multiple times +.TP +\fB\-v\fR +increases verbose level. Can be used multiple times +.SH FILES +.TP +.I "/etc/lcd4linux.conf" +Contains the configuration of lcd4linux. Please note that distributions +generally don't install this file, please create it yourself using the +sample configuration as template. +.TP +.I "/usr/share/doc/lcd4linux/lcd4linux.conf.gz" +Contains a detailed and extensive example configuration file +.SH AUTHOR +lcd4linux was written by Michael Reinelt <reinelt@eunet.at> +.br +Copyright (C) 2005 The LCD4Linux Team <lcd4linux\-devel@users.sourceforge.net> +.SH ORIGIN +Development of lcd4linux is at http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/. Use that +web service for reporting upstream bugs getting in touch with development. +.SH COPYRIGHT +This manual page was written by Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de> +in August 2006 for the Debian project, but may also be used by others. +.br +This manual page and lcd4linux is free software; you can redistribute it +and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as +published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the +License, or (at your option) any later version. |