[master] 4e4424a Document changes around the varnishd -i option in 5.2.
Geoff Simmons
geoff at uplex.de
Wed Sep 13 14:09:03 UTC 2017
commit 4e4424a96e4e68f1f2fa999f4b50bfd7b2fd068a
Author: Geoff Simmons <geoff at uplex.de>
Date: Wed Sep 13 16:08:26 2017 +0200
Document changes around the varnishd -i option in 5.2.
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/whats-new/upgrading-5.2.rst b/doc/sphinx/whats-new/upgrading-5.2.rst
index 5e3552a..869906c 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/whats-new/upgrading-5.2.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/whats-new/upgrading-5.2.rst
@@ -95,6 +95,22 @@ See :ref:`vmod_blob(3)`, :ref:`vmod_purge(3)` and
Other changes
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+* ``varnishd(1)``:
+
+ * The default value of ``server.identity`` when the ``-i`` option is
+ not set has been changed as noted above.
+
+ * Also, ``-i`` no longer determines the ``ident`` field used by
+ ``syslog(3)``; now Varnish is always identified by the string
+ ``varnishd`` in the syslog.
+
+ * On a system that supports ``setproctitle(3)``, the Varnish
+ management process will appear in the output of ``ps(1)`` as
+ ``Varnish-Mgr``, and the child process as ``Varnish-Child``. If
+ the ``-i`` option has been set, then these strings in the ps
+ output are followed by ``-i`` and the identity string set by the
+ option.
+
* ``varnishstat(1)``:
* In curses mode, the top two lines showing uptimes for the
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