Back-port from HEAD: New afpd option: -timeout.

[netatalk.git] / config / afpd.conf.tmpl

diff --git a/config/afpd.conf.tmpl b/config/afpd.conf.tmpl
index 0f8cadf9d808b003aaf50ab89ac51edba594871a..93065c8e152068dce7be6be0edcb61522cf18f37 100644 (file)
--- a/config/afpd.conf.tmpl
+++ b/config/afpd.conf.tmpl
@@ -111,7 +111,13 @@
 #     -loginmesg "Message"  Client will display "Message" upon logging in
 #                         (no default, same as -l "Message" on commandline)
 #     -nodebug            Switch off debugging
-#     -tickleval <number> Specify the tickle timeout interval (in seconds)
+#     -tickleval <number> Specify the tickle timeout interval (in seconds).
+#                         Note, this defaults to 30 seconds, and really 
+#                         shouldn't be changed.  If you want to control
+#                         the server idle timeout, use the -timeout option.
+#     -timeout <number>   Specify the number of tickles to send before
+#                         timing out a connection.  The default is 4, therefore
+#                         a connection will timeout in 2 minutes.
 #     -icon               Use the platform-specific icon.
 #              
 # Some examples: