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[src/trunk]: src/usr.sbin/rwhod New sentence, new line.
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/ab03acaca989
branches: trunk
changeset: 584296:ab03acaca989
user: wiz <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Mon Sep 12 18:33:56 2005 +0000
description:
New sentence, new line.
Add -u to SYNOPSIS. Fix some typos.
Use more markup. Bump date for -u.
diffstat:
usr.sbin/rwhod/rwhod.8 | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diffs (104 lines):
diff -r d6f5c1a9e9c7 -r ab03acaca989 usr.sbin/rwhod/rwhod.8
--- a/usr.sbin/rwhod/rwhod.8 Mon Sep 12 16:55:01 2005 +0000
+++ b/usr.sbin/rwhod/rwhod.8 Mon Sep 12 18:33:56 2005 +0000
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)rwhod.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
-.\" $NetBSD: rwhod.8,v 1.19 2005/09/12 16:13:13 tsarna Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: rwhod.8,v 1.20 2005/09/12 18:33:56 wiz Exp $
.\"
-.Dd August 9, 2005
+.Dd September 12, 2005
.Dt RWHOD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -37,13 +37,15 @@
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl i Ar interval
+.Op Fl u Ar user
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is the server which maintains the database used by the
.Xr rwho 1
and
.Xr ruptime 1
-programs. Its operation is predicated on the ability to
+programs.
+Its operation is predicated on the ability to
.Em broadcast
messages on a network.
.Pp
@@ -62,7 +64,8 @@
.Xr ruptime 1
to mark the host as being down.
.It Fl u Ar user
-drop privledges and become the named user.
+Drop privileges and become the user
+.Ar user .
.El
.Pp
.Nm
@@ -77,7 +80,9 @@
.Pa /var/rwho .
.Pp
The server transmits and receives messages at the port indicated
-in the ``who'' service specification; see
+in the
+.Dq who
+service specification; see
.Xr services 5 .
The messages sent and received, are of the form:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
@@ -104,17 +109,18 @@
.Ed
.Pp
All fields are converted to network byte order prior to
-transmission. The load averages are as calculated by the
+transmission.
+The load averages are as calculated by the
.Xr w 1
program, and represent load averages over the 5, 10, and 15 minute
intervals prior to a server's transmission; they are multiplied by 100
-for representation in an integer. The host name
-included is that returned by the
+for representation in an integer.
+The host name included is that returned by the
.Xr gethostname 3
function call, with any trailing domain name omitted.
The array at the end of the message contains information about
-the users logged in to the sending machine. This information
-includes the contents of the
+the users logged in to the sending machine.
+This information includes the contents of the
.Xr utmp 5
entry for each non-idle terminal line and a value indicating the
time in seconds since a character was last received on the terminal line.
@@ -122,12 +128,13 @@
Messages received by the
.Xr rwho 1
server are discarded unless they originated at an
-rwho
-server's port. In addition, if the host's name, as specified
+.Xr rwho 1
+server's port.
+In addition, if the host's name, as specified
in the message, contains any unprintable
.Tn ASCII
-characters, the
-message is discarded. Valid messages received by
+characters, the message is discarded.
+Valid messages received by
.Nm
are placed in files named
.Pa whod.hostname
@@ -149,6 +156,5 @@
.Sh BUGS
There should be a way to relay status information between networks.
Status information should be sent only upon request rather than continuously.
-People often interpret the server dying
-or network communication failures
-as a machine going down.
+People often interpret the server dying or network communication
+failures as a machine going down.
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