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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/user-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user-guide/commands.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml index f0653232..3a7bd5a8 100644 --- a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml +++ b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml @@ -469,12 +469,16 @@ </description> </bitlbee-setting> - <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect_delay" type="integer" scope="global"> - <default>300</default> + <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect_delay" type="string" scope="global"> + <default>5*3<900</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. + 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 "10*10", 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 < you can give a maximum delay. </para> <para> |