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+++ b/docs/manpages/testparm.1
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
-.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man-spec
-.\" from a DocBook document. docbook2man-spec can be found at:
-.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/hacks/docbook2X/>
+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man
+.\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at:
+.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/>
.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches,
.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
-.TH "TESTPARM" "1" "28 January 2002" "" ""
+.TH "TESTPARM" "1" "21 August 2002" "" ""
.SH NAME
testparm \- check an smb.conf configuration file for internal correctness
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.sp
-\fBtestparm\fR [ \fB-s\fR ] [ \fB-h\fR ] [ \fB-L <servername>\fR ] \fBconfig filename\fR [ \fBhostname hostIP\fR ]
+
+\fBtestparm\fR [ \fB-s\fR ] [ \fB-h\fR ] [ \fB-v\fR ] [ \fB-L <servername>\fR ] \fBconfig filename\fR [ \fBhostname hostIP\fR ]
+
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
This tool is part of the Sambasuite.
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ This tool is part of the Sambasuite.
to check an \fBsmbd\fR configuration file for
internal correctness. If this program reports no problems, you
can use the configuration file with confidence that \fBsmbd
-\fRwill successfully load the configuration file.
+\fR will successfully load the configuration file.
.PP
Note that this is \fBNOT\fR a guarantee that
the services specified in the configuration file will be
@@ -46,10 +47,16 @@ Sets the value of the %L macro to \fIservername\fR.
This is useful for testing include files specified with the
%L macro.
.TP
+\fB-v\fR
+If this option is specified, testparm
+will also output all options that were not used in
+\fIsmb.conf\fR and are thus set to
+their defaults.
+.TP
\fBconfigfilename\fR
This is the name of the configuration file
to check. If this parameter is not present then the
-default \fIsmb.conf\fR file will be checked.
+default \fIsmb.conf\fR file will be checked.
.TP
\fBhostname\fR
If this parameter and the following are
@@ -57,13 +64,13 @@ specified, then \fBtestparm\fR will examine the \fIhosts
allow\fR and \fIhosts deny\fR
parameters in the \fIsmb.conf\fR file to
determine if the hostname with this IP address would be
-allowed access to the \fBsmbd\fR server. If
+allowed access to the \fBsmbd\fR server. If
this parameter is supplied, the hostIP parameter must also
be supplied.
.TP
\fBhostIP\fR
This is the IP address of the host specified
-in the previous parameter. This address must be supplied
+in the previous parameter. This address must be supplied
if the hostname parameter is supplied.
.SH "FILES"
.TP
@@ -95,6 +102,6 @@ to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
-ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
-release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
+ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2.0
+release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter