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authorSpencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com>2018-01-31T22·47+0000
committerSpencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com>2018-01-31T22·47+0000
commite5432574e2d54388eb52292da540f2d4de07e9dc (patch)
tree3f8f75c342a7cc9b268586ed40d32459ee42a17c /doc
parentc129fc6ee8a8bf6de633dc1b91869a0c428ca75c (diff)
document ability to set NIX_REMOTE=unix://path/to/socket
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diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml
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+++ 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>
 
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