geoip: update man page for xt_geoip_build

Signed-off-by: Philip Prindeville <philipp@redfish-solutions.com>
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Philip Prindeville
2018-04-30 02:06:04 +02:00
committed by Jan Engelhardt
parent 256ac1a4f6
commit e19f91ddb4

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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ xt_geoip_build \(em convert GeoIP.csv to packed format for xt_geoip
.SH Syntax
.PP
\fI/usr/libexec/xt_geoip/\fP\fBxt_geoip_build\fP [\fB\-D\fP
\fItarget_dir\fP] [\fIfile\fP...]
\fItarget_dir\fP]
.SH Description
.PP
xt_geoip_build is used to build packed raw representations of the range
@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ required to be loaded into memory. The ranges in the packed database files are
also ordered, as xt_geoip relies on this property for its bisection approach to
work.
.PP
Input is processed from the listed files, or if none is given, from stdin.
It expects to find a directory named
.IR GeoLite2-Country-CSV_YYYYMMDD
in the current directory, and will select the most recent if multiple
instances are found. The
.IR xt_geoip_dl
script can be used to populate this directory.
.PP
Since the script is usually installed to the libexec directory of the
xtables-addons package and this is outside $PATH (on purpose), invoking the