diff options
| author | Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com> | 2018-01-31T22·47+0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com> | 2018-01-31T22·47+0000 |
| commit | e5432574e2d54388eb52292da540f2d4de07e9dc (patch) | |
| tree | 3f8f75c342a7cc9b268586ed40d32459ee42a17c /doc/manual | |
| parent | c129fc6ee8a8bf6de633dc1b91869a0c428ca75c (diff) | |
document ability to set NIX_REMOTE=unix://path/to/socket
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml index a83aeaf2e575..361d3e2b0330 100644 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml +++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml @@ -154,6 +154,8 @@ $ mount -o bind /mnt/otherdisk/nix /nix</screen> <literal>daemon</literal> if you want to use the Nix daemon to execute Nix operations. This is necessary in <link linkend="ssec-multi-user">multi-user Nix installations</link>. + If the Nix daemon's Unix socket is at some non-standard path, + this variable should be set to <literal>unix://path/to/socket</literal>. Otherwise, it should be left unset.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> |