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authorMarc Balmer <mbalmer@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-05-06 09:00:52 +0000
committerMarc Balmer <mbalmer@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-05-06 09:00:52 +0000
commit025baacefefda684c24425f07bcf0938d3ea1b36 (patch)
treea95c70e007334ce826ebbcd55b5e959fb8aee05e /share
parentdec3fc4aa196c4d153ffa5c27f36d2687970c18a (diff)
Document signal/clock status.
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/msts.415
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/msts.4 b/share/man/man4/msts.4
index afe137d8885..9ba7a9e0bc9 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/msts.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/msts.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: msts.4,v 1.1 2008/01/05 17:33:28 mbalmer Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: msts.4,v 1.2 2008/05/06 09:00:51 mbalmer Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Marc Balmer <mbalmer@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 5 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 6 2008 $
.Dt MSTS 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ The Meinberg radio clocks use the following default baudrates:
.El
.Sh SENSOR STATES
The quality of the timedelta is reported as the sensor status:
-.Bl -tag -width "WARNXX"
+.Bl -tag -width "CRITICALXX" -offset indent
.It OK
The time information is valid.
The timedelta is safe to use for applications like
@@ -69,6 +69,15 @@ receiver indicated a warning condition for at least the last twenty minutes.
Check your hardware.
Some receiver units need PPS to be manually turned on.
.El
+.Pp
+The status of a second sensor is used to report the status of the
+device itself:
+.Bl -tag -width "CRITICALXX" -offset indent
+.It OK
+The clock is synchronized, e.g. a GPS receiver has a fix.
+.It WARN
+The device issued a warning condition, e.g. a GPS receiver has no fix.
+.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr tty 4 ,
.Xr ldattach 8 ,