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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-11-10 05:10:44 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-11-10 05:10:44 +0000
commit3e222ea23769f7fa61220327392152acedf527bf (patch)
tree9c366baf268cf9c15e9ba6677e9a98d4002eaf8a /usr.bin/oldrdist/oldrdist.1
parent4575f892d2c42b7683343fd14cb4e51ce9604ae4 (diff)
- Section shuffling: comply to the section ordering outlined in mdoc(7).
- Some .Nm trimming. - .Sh AUTHOR -> .Sh AUTHORS - Other miscellaneous fixes here and there.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/oldrdist/oldrdist.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/oldrdist/oldrdist.130
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/oldrdist/oldrdist.1 b/usr.bin/oldrdist/oldrdist.1
index 93b1c3e66b6..be998d4e12d 100644
--- a/usr.bin/oldrdist/oldrdist.1
+++ b/usr.bin/oldrdist/oldrdist.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: oldrdist.1,v 1.8 2000/04/12 21:47:50 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: oldrdist.1,v 1.9 2000/11/10 05:10:38 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -52,11 +52,11 @@
.Ar name ...
.Oo login@ Oc Ns Ar host Ns Op :dest
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm rdist
+.Nm
is a program to maintain identical copies of files over multiple hosts.
It preserves the owner, group, mode, and mtime of files if possible and
can update programs that are executing.
-.Nm rdist
+.Nm
reads commands from
.Ar distfile
to direct the updating of files and/or directories.
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ then
.Dq Pa Distfile
to use as the input.
If no names are specified on the command line,
-.Nm rdist
+.Nm
will update all of the files and directories listed in
.Ar distfile .
Otherwise, the argument is taken to be the name of a file to be updated
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Options specific to the second SYNOPSIS form:
.Bl -tag -width Fl c
.It Fl c
Forces
-.Nm rdist
+.Nm
to interpret the remaining arguments as a small
.Ar distfile .
.Pp
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ Follow symbolic links.
Copy the file that the link points to rather than the link itself.
.It Fl i
Ignore unresolved links.
-.Nm rdist
+.Nm
will normally try to maintain the link structure of files being transferred
and warn the user if all the links cannot be found.
.It Fl m Ar host
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ disagree.
The
.Fl y
option causes
-.Nm rdist
+.Nm
not to update files that are younger than the master copy.
This can be used
to prevent newer copies on other hosts from being replaced.
@@ -427,6 +427,11 @@ imagen:
${FILES} :: stamp.cory
\tnotify root@cory ;
.Ed
+.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
+A complaint about mismatch of
+.Nm
+version numbers may really stem
+from some problem with starting your shell, e.g., you are in too many groups.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /tmp/rdist* -compact
.It Pa distfile
@@ -440,17 +445,12 @@ temporary file for update lists
.Xr stat 2
.Sh HISTORY
The
-.Nm rdist
+.Nm
command appeared in
.Bx 4.3 .
-.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
-A complaint about mismatch of
-.Nm rdist
-version numbers may really stem
-from some problem with starting your shell, e.g., you are in too many groups.
.Sh BUGS
Source files must reside on the local host where
-.Nm rdist
+.Nm
is executed.
.Pp
There is no easy way to have a special command executed after all files
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ in a directory have been updated.
Variable expansion only works for name lists; there should be a general macro
facility.
.Pp
-.Nm rdist
+.Nm
aborts on files which have a negative mtime (before Jan 1, 1970).
.Pp
There should be a