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author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-11-10 05:10:44 +0000 |
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committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-11-10 05:10:44 +0000 |
commit | 3e222ea23769f7fa61220327392152acedf527bf (patch) | |
tree | 9c366baf268cf9c15e9ba6677e9a98d4002eaf8a /usr.bin/oldrdist/oldrdist.1 | |
parent | 4575f892d2c42b7683343fd14cb4e51ce9604ae4 (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.1 | 30 |
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 |