commit 92813941b5f467b878485eb3c141c59f48736847 Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> Date: Tue Mar 14 11:25:54 2017 -0400 #21720: Update "directory server options" preamble in manpage --- changes/bug21720 | 5 +++++ doc/tor.1.txt | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/changes/bug21720 b/changes/bug21720 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6d2fbcf --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/bug21720 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ + o Documentation: + - Update the description of the directory server options in the manual + page, to clarify that DirPort is no longer necessary to be a directory + cache. Closes ticket 21720. + diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index de2e2b4..1665cfe 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -2121,8 +2121,9 @@ is non-zero): DIRECTORY SERVER OPTIONS ------------------------ -The following options are useful only for directory servers (that is, -if DirPort is non-zero): +The following options are useful only for directory servers. (Relays with +enough bandwidth automatically become directory servers; see DirCache for +details.) [[DirPortFrontPage]] **DirPortFrontPage** __FILENAME__:: When this option is set, it takes an HTML file and publishes it as "/" on