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.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ovs\-brcompatd
-[\fIoptions\fR] \fIconfig\fR
+[\fIoptions\fR] \fIdatabase\fR
.
.SH DESCRIPTION
A daemon that provides a legacy bridge front-end for \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR. It
does this by listening for bridge ioctl commands (e.g., those generated by
the \fBbrctl\fR program) to add or remove datapaths and the interfaces
-that attach to them. It modifies \fIconfig\fR and forces
-\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR to reload its configuration file.
+that attach to them.
+.PP
+The mandatory \fIdatabase\fR argument specifies the
+\fBovsdb\-server\fR from which \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR's configuration is
+retrieved. It should take the form \fBunix:\fIfile\fR, to connect to
+the Unix domain server socket named \fIfile\fR.
.PP
.SH OPTIONS
-.IP "\fB--appctl-command=\fIcommand\fR"
+.IP "\fB\-\-appctl\-command=\fIcommand\fR"
Sets the command that \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR runs to communicate with
\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR. The command is run in \fB/bin/sh\fR as a shell
command, so \fIcommand\fR may contain arbitrary shell metacharacters,
-etc. The \fB--help\fR option displays the default command.
+etc. The \fB\-\-help\fR option displays the default command.
.IP
\fIcommand\fR must contain exactly one instance of \fB%s\fR, which
\fBovs\-brcompatd\fR replaces by a command from the set understood by
standard error streams, because \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR expects to read
both of these streams separately.
.TP
-\fB--prune-timeout=\fIsecs\fR
+\fB\-\-prune\-timeout=\fIsecs\fR
.
Sets the maximum time between pruning port entries to \fIsecs\fR seconds.
-Pruning ports is the process of removing port entries from \fIconfig\fR
+Pruning ports is the process of removing port entries from \fIdatabase\fR
that no longer exist. If \fIsecs\fR is zero, then entries are never
pruned. The default prune timeout is 5 seconds.
-.TP
-\fB--lock-timeout=\fImsecs\fR
-.
-Sets the maximum time to wait for \fIconfig\fR to become unlocked to
-\fImsecs\fR milliseconds. The default lock timeout is 500 milliseconds.
.
.so lib/daemon.man
.so lib/vlog.man
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ovs\-appctl (8),
.BR ovs\-vswitchd (8),
-.BR ovs\-vswitchd.conf (5),
+.BR ovsdb\-server (1),
\fBINSTALL.bridge\fR in the Open vSwitch distribution.