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+.TH RENDERD 1 "Jan 25, 2012"
+.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
+.SH NAME
+renderd \- Rendering daemon for rendering OpenStreetMap tiles.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B renderd
+.RI [ options ]
+.br
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This manual page documents briefly the
+.B renderd
+command.
+.PP
+.B renderd
+is a rendering daemon for map tiles with the mapnik library. It receives render requests
+on a socket. Renderd queues requests in a number of different queues to manage load while 
+rendering the requests with the mapnik library. By default renderd will start as a daemon.
+It will log information in the syslog.
+.PP
+.SH OPTIONS
+This programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
+options starting with two dashes (`-').
+A summary of options is included below.
+.TP
+\fB\-f\fR|\-\-foreground
+Run renderd in the foreground for debugging purposes.
+.TP
+\fB\-c\fR|\-\-config
+Set the location of the config file used to configure the various parameters of renderd,
+like the mapnik style sheet. The default is /etc/renderd.conf
+.TP
+\fB\-s\fR|\-\-slave
+Renderd can be used in a distributed fashion across multiple rendering servers. The master renderd handles queuing and
+passes requests to the slaves. This parameter specifies which of the slave sections of renderd.conf applies to this instance
+of renderd. The default is to use the master section
+.TP
+\fB\-h\fR|\-\-help
+Print out a help text for renderd
+.PP
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR renderd.conf (1),
+.br
+.SH AUTHOR
+renderd was written by Jon Burgess, and other OpenStreetMap project members.
+.PP
+This manual page was written by OpenStreetMap authors.