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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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