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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-05-16 11:06:00 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-05-16 11:06:00 +0000
commit5f4acc676efa07bbc8003e2daa939d385926e5fe (patch)
tree8b1bf7b144b625c7c55de7ba5b6fd335e6291666
parentd28d4ca89cf157cfbd6422626242b79f6f6baf5a (diff)
clarify protocol use
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.87
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.8 b/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.8
index 435d04a2a0a..b78385c878e 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: rdate.8,v 1.14 2002/05/16 10:46:34 jakob Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: rdate.8,v 1.15 2002/05/16 11:05:59 deraadt Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: rdate.8,v 1.4 1996/04/08 20:55:17 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1994 Christos Zoulas
@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@
.Nm
displays and sets the local date and time from the
host name or address given as the argument.
-It uses the RFC868
+By default it uses the RFC868
protocol which is usually implemented as a built-in service of
-.Xr inetd 8 .
+.Xr inetd 8 ,
+but it can also use the RFC1361 protocol supplied by an NTP/SNTP server.
.Pp
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