bin/115445: Patch to improve manual of timed

Julian Stacey jhs at berklix.org
Sun Aug 12 07:10:03 PDT 2007


>Number:         115445
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Patch to improve manual of timed
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 12 14:10:01 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     "Julian Stacey" <jhs at berklix.com>
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
http://berklix.com
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD fire.js.berklix.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Jun 20 12:09:48 CEST 2007 jhs at laps.js.berklix.net:/usr1/6.2-RELEASE/src/sys/i386/compile/FIRE32.small i386


	
>Description:
	timed -F # poorly documented 
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:
	Patch appended (also on
http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/freebsd/src/gen/usr.sbin/timed/timed/timed.8.REL=ALL.diff
)

*** 6.2-RELEASE/src/usr.sbin/timed/timed/timed.8	Sun Aug 12 14:12:35 2007
--- new/src/usr.sbin/timed/timed/timed.8	Sun Aug 12 14:27:11 2007
***************
*** 77,95 ****
  This option may be specified multiple times
  to add more than one network to the list.
  .It Fl F Ar host ...
  Create a list of trusted hosts.
! The
  .Nm
! utility will only accept trusted hosts as masters.
  If it finds an untrusted host claiming to be master,
  .Nm
  will suppress incoming messages from that host
  and call for a new election.
! This option implies the
  .Fl M
! option.
! If this option is not specified,
! all hosts on the connected networks are treated as trustworthy.
  .It Fl M
  Allow this host to become a
  .Nm
--- 77,126 ----
  This option may be specified multiple times
  to add more than one network to the list.
  .It Fl F Ar host ...
+ .in +2
+ .ti -2
+ -
  Create a list of trusted hosts.
! .ti -2
! -
! Can take one or more parameters.
! .ti -2
! -
  .Nm
! will only accept trusted hosts as masters.
  If it finds an untrusted host claiming to be master,
  .Nm
  will suppress incoming messages from that host
  and call for a new election.
! .ti -2
! -
! Use real host names (resolvable by RDNS) not aliases (eg in 
! .Xr named 8
! parlance: use A names, not C names).
! .\" I'm certain this is necessary.
! .ti -2
! -
! Use full names eg time1.domain.com not time1.
! .\" Not certain it is necessary, but sensible to get timed working.
! .ti -2
! -
! .\"	Old wording 
! .\"		This option implies the
! .\"	Was ambiguous. It Was not clear if functionality was automatically
! .\"	provided, Or -M should also be manually asserted.
! .Fl F
! automatically includes the fuctionality of 
  .Fl M
! ( so
! .Fl M
! does not need to asserted).
! .ti -2
! -
! If 
! .Fl F
! is not specified,
! all hosts on connected networks are treated as trustworthy.
! .in -2
  .It Fl M
  Allow this host to become a
  .Nm



>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


More information about the freebsd-bugs mailing list