filecheck: Fall back to using the file command if the freedesktop magic file cannot...

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / plugins / filecheck.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins/filecheck.mdwn b/doc/plugins/filecheck.mdwn
index e5f68b29c317d1ae854bc0a28661be3b953446db..b038bc433c7c3dbdbb0da64334c41b954f843099 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/filecheck.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/filecheck.mdwn
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ status. These tests are mostly useful for the [[attachment]] plugin, and
 are documented [[here|ikiwiki/pagespec/attachment]].
 
 This plugin will use the [[!cpan File::MimeInfo::Magic]] perl module, if
-available, for mimetype checking.
+available, for mimetype checking. It falls back to using the `file` command
+if necessary for hard to detect files.
 
 The `virusfree` [[PageSpec|ikiwiki/pagespec/attachment]] requires that
 ikiwiki be configured with a virus scanner program via the `virus_checker`