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authorHenning Brauer <henning@cvs.openbsd.org>2011-09-17 09:53:22 +0000
committerHenning Brauer <henning@cvs.openbsd.org>2011-09-17 09:53:22 +0000
commitd752734d2f0bcc1e3763ce9639cbfc4e0955b13b (patch)
treeb8604f0d55c2e3d8f88cb6687c04e5cd87cd9150 /usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.8
parent42cf9d8dd807edb2197eb970ae464423ffd6f052 (diff)
improve -s description. the major points are set vs adjust and stay in
the forground until we receive a reply or hit the 15 second timeout. with theo, evolved out of sth completely different
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.8')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.815
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.8 b/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.8
index 505da7ac511..5baa43994e8 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ntpd.8,v 1.29 2011/07/08 07:00:30 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ntpd.8,v 1.30 2011/09/17 09:53:21 henning Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003, 2004, 2006 Henning Brauer <henning@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT
.\" OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 8 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 17 2011 $
.Dt NTPD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -60,11 +60,12 @@ Only check the configuration file for validity.
Do not set the time immediately at startup.
This is the default.
.It Fl s
-Set the time immediately at startup.
-Allows for a large time correction,
-eliminating the need to run
-.Xr rdate 8 .
-.It Fl v
+Try to set the time immediately at startup, as opposed to slowly adjusting the
+clock.
+.Nm
+will stay in the foreground for up to 15 seconds waiting for one of the
+configured ntp servers to reply.
+It Fl v
This option allows
.Nm
to send DEBUG priority messages to syslog.