commit 75706527c16fc62ec7db4e496db76e21c79c664a Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Thu Jun 14 14:58:51 2012 -0400
Document --hush; fix documentation for --quiet. --- changes/doc_hush | 3 +++ doc/tor.1.txt | 11 +++++++---- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/changes/doc_hush b/changes/doc_hush new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b3a67aa --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/doc_hush @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ + o Documentation: + - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line options, + which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha. diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index 78a33ca..468ed63 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -62,10 +62,13 @@ OPTIONS **--version**:: Display Tor version and exit.
-**--quiet**:: - Do not start Tor with a console log unless explicitly requested to do so. - (By default, Tor starts out logging messages at level "notice" or higher to - the console, until it has parsed its configuration.) +**--quiet**|**--hush**:: + Override the default console log. By default, Tor starts out logging + messages at level "notice" and higher to the console. It stops doing so + after it parses its configuration, if the configuration tells it to log + anywhere else. You can override this behavior with the **--hush** option, + which tells Tor to only send warnings and errors to the console, or with + the **--quiet** option, which tells Tor not to log to the console at all.
Other options can be specified either on the command-line (--option value), or in the configuration file (option value or option "value").