An attempt at making irk clean up after itself.

[irker.git] / irkerd.xml

diff --git a/irkerd.xml b/irkerd.xml
index 9d3907ac6d3f2cf73fdde95cdfa5accb551bce80..0638a6e5d62438c9893cc00eae343cd9f9902a1e 100644 (file)
--- a/irkerd.xml
+++ b/irkerd.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ client intended to be used for shipping notification messages to IRC
 channels. The use case in mind when it was designed was broadcasting
 notifications from commit hooks in version-control systems.</para>
 
+<para>The main advantage of relaying through this daemon over
+individual scripted sends from applications is that it can maintain
+connection state for multiple channels, rather than producing obnoxious
+join/leave channel spam on every message.</para>
+
 <para><application>irkerd</application> is a socket server that
 listens on for UDP or TCP packets on port 6659 for textual request
 lines containing JSON objects and terminated by a newline. Each JSON
@@ -100,7 +105,7 @@ in the event of a nick collision.</para></listitem>
 <term>-p</term>
 <listitem><para>Takes a following value, setting a nickserv
 password to be used. If given, this password is shipped to
-authenticate the nick on receipt of a welcom message.</para></listitem>
+authenticate the nick on receipt of a welcome message.</para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
 <term>-V</term>
@@ -109,8 +114,7 @@ terminate.</para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
 <term>-h</term>
-<listitem><para>Print usage instructions and
-terminate.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Print usage instructions and terminate.</para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 </variablelist>
 
@@ -154,8 +158,7 @@ discarded. </para>
 project page at <ulink
 url='http://www.catb.org/~esr/irker'>http://www.catb.org/~esr/irker</ulink>
 for updates and other resources, including an installable repository
-hook script. The implementation uses the Python IRC library by Joe
-Rosdahl and Jason R. Coombs.</para>
+hook script.</para>
 </refsect1>
 </refentry>