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.\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the
.\" vdr distribution.
.\"
-.\" $Id: vdr.1 3.1 2013/12/25 11:01:36 kls Exp $
+.\" $Id: vdr.1 3.2 2014/04/14 12:52:45 kls Exp $
.\"
.TH vdr 1 "31 Mar 2013" "2.0" "Video Disk Recorder"
.SH NAME
@@ -178,6 +178,10 @@ more information.
Read resource files from \fIdir\fR
(default is to read them from the config directory).
.TP
+.BI \-\-showargs[= dir ]
+Read command line arguments from \fIdir\fR (default is \fI/etc/vdr/conf.d\fR),
+display them to the console and exit.
+.TP
.BI \-s\ cmd ,\ \-\-shutdown= cmd
Call \fIcmd\fR to shutdown the computer. See the file \fIINSTALL\fR for more
information.
@@ -213,6 +217,10 @@ Print version information and exit.
.BI \-w\ sec ,\ \-\-watchdog= sec
Activate the watchdog timer with a timeout of \fIsec\fR seconds.
A value of \fB0\fR (default) disables the watchdog.
+.P
+If started without any options, vdr tries to read command line options
+from files named '*.conf' in the directory /etc/vdr/conf.d. Files are
+read in alphabetical order. See vdr(5) for details.
.SH SIGNALS
.TP
.B SIGINT, SIGTERM