diff --git a/cman/init.d/cman.in b/cman/init.d/cman.in
index a39f19f..dddfe6e 100644
--- a/cman/init.d/cman.in
+++ b/cman/init.d/cman.in
@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ fi
# empty or any other value (default) | cman init will start the daemons
#CMAN_DAEMONS_START=
+# DLM_CONTROLD_OPTS -- allow extra options to be passed to dlm_controld daemon.
+[ -z "$DLM_CONTROLD_OPTS" ] && DLM_CONTROLD_OPTS=""
+
# FENCE_JOIN_TIMEOUT -- seconds to wait for fence domain join to
# complete. If the join hasn't completed in this time, fence_tool join
# exits with an error, and this script exits with an error. To wait
@@ -674,7 +677,7 @@ stop_fenced()
if [ "$INITLOGLEVEL" = "full" ]; then
ok
diff --git a/cman/init.d/cman.init.defaults.in b/cman/init.d/cman.init.defaults.in
index 04b3b5b..adde8d9 100644
--- a/cman/init.d/cman.init.defaults.in
+++ b/cman/init.d/cman.init.defaults.in
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@
# empty or any other value (default) | cman init will start the daemons
#CMAN_DAEMONS_START=
+# DLM_CONTROLD_OPTS -- allow extra options to be passed to dlm_controld daemon.
+#DLM_CONTROLD_OPTS=""
+
# FENCE_JOIN_TIMEOUT -- seconds to wait for fence domain join to
# complete. If the join hasn't completed in this time, fence_tool join
# exits with an error, and this script exits with an error. To wait
--
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