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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 5f134f75..9343255f 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -1021,16 +1021,13 @@ flags indicating that connections have wedged due to failed authentication or multiple timeouts. .PP The option -.B --quit +.B \-\-quit will kill a running daemon process instead of waking it up (if there -is no such process, -.I fetchmail -notifies you). If the --quit option is the only command-line option, -that's all there is to it. -.PP -The quit option may also be mixed with other command-line options; its -effect is to kill any running daemon before doing what the other -options specify in combination with the fetchmailrc file. +is no such process, \fIfetchmail\fP will notify you. +If the \-\-quit option appears last on the command line, \fIfetchmail\fP +will kill the running daemon process and then quit. Otherwise, +\fIfetchmail\fP will first kill a running daemon process and then +continue running with the other options. .PP The .B \-L <filename> @@ -1069,7 +1066,9 @@ option was used. .PP The .B \-N -or --nodetach option suppresses backgrounding and detachment of the +or +.B --nodetach +option suppresses backgrounding and detachment of the daemon process from its control terminal. This is useful for debugging or when fetchmail runs as the child of a supervisor process such as |