hello, I've found my own long-forgotten patch to the manpage of start-stop-daemon, which fixes various markup problems and one typo.
--- start-stop-daemon.8 Sat Mar 2 01:40:52 2002 +++ start-stop-daemon.8-new Sat Mar 9 03:46:28 2002 @@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ on the command line are passed unmodified to the program being started. If .B --retry -is specified then start-stop-daemon will check that the process(es) +is specified then +.B start-stop-daemon +will check that the process(es) have terminated. With @@ -68,34 +70,28 @@ .TP \fB-x\fP|\fB--exec\fP \fIexecutable\fP Check for processes that are instances of this executable (according to -.B /proc/ -.I pid -.B /exe -). +.BR /proc/\fP\fIpid\fP\fB/exe ). .TP \fB-p\fP|\fB--pidfile\fP \fIpid-file\fP Check for processes whose process-id is specified in -.I pid-file. +.IR pid-file . .TP \fB-u\fP|\fB--user\fP \fIusername\fP|\fIuid\fP Check for processes owned by the user specified by .I username or -.I uid. +.IR uid . .TP \fB-n\fP|\fB--name\fP \fIprocess-name\fP Check for processes with the name .I process-name (according to -.B /proc/ -.I pid -.B /stat -). +.BR /proc/\fP\fIpid\fP\fB/stat ). .TP \fB-s\fP|\fB--signal\fP \fIsignal\fP With -.BR --stop -, specifies the signal to send to processes being stopped (default 15). +.BR --stop , +specifies the signal to send to processes being stopped (default 15). .TP \fB-R\fP|\fB--retry\fP \fItimeout\fP|\fIschedule\fP With @@ -175,7 +171,7 @@ option is not specified. The .B --group option is only for -groups that the user isn't normally a member of (like adding per/process +groups that the user isn't normally a member of (like adding per-process group membership for generic users like .BR nobody ). .TP --alexm
