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[src/netbsd-1-5]: src/usr.sbin/timed/timed Pull up revision 1.9 (requested by...



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/d1f2f480c8d7
branches:  netbsd-1-5
changeset: 491422:d1f2f480c8d7
user:      he <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Thu Apr 26 09:44:48 2001 +0000

description:
Pull up revision 1.9 (requested by wiz):
  Correct ntpd(8) reference.  Whitespace fixes.

diffstat:

 usr.sbin/timed/timed/timed.8 |  40 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diffs (132 lines):

diff -r 5daaf3e99769 -r d1f2f480c8d7 usr.sbin/timed/timed/timed.8
--- a/usr.sbin/timed/timed/timed.8      Thu Apr 26 09:42:42 2001 +0000
+++ b/usr.sbin/timed/timed/timed.8      Thu Apr 26 09:44:48 2001 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: timed.8,v 1.8 1999/03/22 18:44:12 garbled Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: timed.8,v 1.8.10.1 2001/04/26 09:44:48 he Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@
 is a time server daemon and is normally invoked
 at boot time from the
 .Xr rc 8
-file.  
+file.
 It synchronizes the host's time with the time of other
-machines in a local area network running 
+machines in a local area network running
 .Nm "" .
 These time servers will slow down the clocks of some machines
 and speed up the clocks of others to bring them to the average network time.
@@ -72,18 +72,18 @@
 is started on a machine, it asks the master for the network time
 and sets the host's clock to that time.
 After that, it accepts synchronization messages periodically sent by
-the master and calls 
+the master and calls
 .Xr adjtime 2
 to perform the needed corrections on the host's clock.
 .Pp
 It also communicates with
 .Xr date 1
 in order to set the date globally,
-and with 
+and with
 .Xr timedc 8 ,
 a timed control program.
 If the machine running the master crashes, then the slaves will elect
-a new master from among slaves running with the 
+a new master from among slaves running with the
 .Fl M
 flag.
 A
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
 or
 .Fl F
 flags will remain a slave.
-The 
+The
 .Fl t
 flag enables
 .Nm
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
 flag, it will provide synchronization service on any attached networks
 on which no current master server was detected.
 Such a server propagates the time computed by the top-level master.
-The 
+The
 .Fl n
 flag, followed by the name of a network which the host is connected to
 (see
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
 .Fl n
 flag appears, that network name is added to a list of valid networks.
 All other networks are ignored.
-The 
+The
 .Fl i
 flag, followed by the name of a network to which the host is connected
 (see
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
 All other networks are used by the time daemon.
 The
 .Fl n
-and 
+and
 .Fl i
 flags are meaningless if used together.
 .Pp
@@ -155,14 +155,14 @@
 on which to be a "slave," and then periodically checks the other
 networks to see if the masters there have disappeared.
 .Pp
-One way to synchronize a group of machines is to use an NTP daemon to 
+One way to synchronize a group of machines is to use an NTP daemon to
 synchronize the clock of one machine to a distant standard or a radio
-receiver and 
+receiver and
 .Fl F Ar hostname
 to tell its timed daemon to trust only itself.
 .Pp
 Messages printed by the kernel on the system console occur with
-interrupts disabled. 
+interrupts disabled.
 This means that the clock stops while they are printing.
 A machine with many disk or network hardware problems and consequent
 messages cannot keep good time by itself.  Each message typically causes
@@ -177,19 +177,19 @@
 machines that looked for time masters on more than one network and eventually
 chose to become a slave on the other network.
 .Sh WARNINGS
-If two or more time daemons, whether 
+If two or more time daemons, whether
 .Nm "" ,
-.Xr NTP ,
+.Xr ntpd 8 ,
 try to adjust the same clock, temporal chaos will result.
-If both 
+If both
 .Nm
 and another time daemon are run on the same machine,
-ensure that the 
+ensure that the
 .Fl F
-flag is used, so that 
+flag is used, so that
 .Nm
 never attempts to adjust the local clock.
-.Pp 
+.Pp
 The protocol is based on UDP/IP broadcasts.  All machines within
 the range of a broadcast that are using the TSP protocol must cooperate.
 There cannot be more than a single administrative domain using the
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
 .It Pa /var/log/timed.log
 tracing file for timed
 .It Pa /var/log/timed.masterlog
-log file for master timed 
+log file for master timed
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr date 1 ,



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