From e5432574e2d54388eb52292da540f2d4de07e9dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 22:47:16 +0000
Subject: document ability to set NIX_REMOTE=unix://path/to/socket

---
 doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/manual')

diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml
index a83aeaf2e..361d3e2b0 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>
 
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