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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-02-26 16:39:24 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-02-26 16:39:24 +0000
commit18d8e6217f419dbfa329242919449466e560096a (patch)
treea52ca935fc3f8bd74666566c014f7ff1532429fb /usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1
parent56f985e8d39d24bf61c3b464c2cf3c071d058821 (diff)
tidy up DESCRIPTION;
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/rdist/rdist.137
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1 b/usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1
index 6ae954136ef..1d183a43f61 100644
--- a/usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1
+++ b/usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: rdist.1,v 1.24 2007/02/26 16:17:10 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: rdist.1,v 1.25 2007/02/26 16:39:23 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ If no
option is present, the program looks first for
.Pa distfile ,
then
-.Pa Distfile
+.Pa Distfile ,
to use as the input.
If no names are specified on the command line,
.Nm
@@ -92,13 +92,13 @@ These may be used together to update specific files using specific commands.
uses a remote shell command to access each target host.
By default,
.Xr ssh 1
-is used, unless overridden by the
+is used unless overridden by the
.Fl P
option or the
.Ev RSH
environment variable.
If the target host is the string
-.Em localhost
+.Dq localhost
and the remote user name is the same as the local user name,
.Nm
will run the command:
@@ -110,34 +110,33 @@ Otherwise,
.Nm
run will run the command:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-ssh host -l remuser rdistd -S
+ssh \*(Lthost\*(Gt -l \*(Ltlogin_name\*(Gt rdistd -S
.Ed
.Pp
-where
-.Em host
-is the name of the target host,
-.Em remuser
-is the name of the user to make the connection as, and
-.Em rdistd
-is the rdist server command on the target host as shown below.
+.Ar host
+is the name of the target host;
+.Ar login_name
+is the name of the user to make the connection as.
.Pp
On each target host
.Nm
-will attempt to run the command
+will attempt to run the command:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
rdistd -S
.Ed
-or
-.Bd -literal -compact -offset indent
+.Pp
+Or if the
+.Fl p
+option was specified,
+.Nm
+will attempt to run the command:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
\*(Ltrdistd path\*(Gt -S
.Ed
.Pp
-if the
-.Fl p
-option was specified.
If no
.Fl p
-option is included, or the
+option is specified, or
.Aq Ar rdistd path
is a simple filename,
.Xr rdistd 1