Changeset 4230221 for doc/user-guide

Timestamp:

2008-08-09T23:00:38Z (16 years ago)

Author:

Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@…>

Branches:

master

Children:

a830512

Parents:

280e655

Message:

Added ceiling to auto-reconnect delay, changed the default to 5*3<900 and
added documentation.

File:

• doc/user-guide/commands.xml (modified) (1 diff)

doc/user-guide/commands.xml

@@ -321 +321 @@
         </bitlbee-setting>
 
-        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect_delay" type="integer" scope="global">
-                <default>300</default>
-
-                <description>
-                        <para>
-                                Tell BitlBee after how many seconds it should attempt to bring an IM-connection back up after a crash. It's not a good idea to set this value very low, it will cause too much useless traffic when an IM-server is down for a few hours.
+        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect_delay" type="string" scope="global">
+                <default>5*3&lt;900</default>
+
+                <description>
+                        <para>
+                                Tell BitlBee after how many seconds it should attempt to bring a broken IM-connection back up.
+                        </para>
+
+                        <para>
+                                This can be one integer, for a constant delay. One can also set it to something like &quot;10*10&quot;, which means wait for ten seconds on the first reconnect, multiply it by ten on every failure. Once successfully connected, this delay is re-set to the initial value. With &lt; you can give a maximum delay.
                         </para>