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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-07-13 19:51:39 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-07-13 19:51:39 +0000
commitae5e43b6a0c38853f6c1c27a8915b9886f944c39 (patch)
tree1db19eee0776b9dc907dfe0e1e3bab9182fd2d80 /usr.sbin/ntpd
parent4ee086ea1118fc386cc2411cd0a809afdb9685bc (diff)
tweaks; ok henning@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/ntpd')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.854
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.conf.519
2 files changed, 49 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.8 b/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.8
index 2fe042b17da..4717842e446 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ntpd.8,v 1.4 2004/07/09 19:33:09 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ntpd.8,v 1.5 2004/07/13 19:51:38 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 Henning Brauer <henning@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -29,25 +29,55 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-daemon implements the Simple Network Time Protocol version 4 as described
-in RFC 2030 and the Network Time Protocol version 3 as described in RFC 1305.
-It can synchronize the local clock to one or more remote NTP servers and act
-as NTP server itself, redistributing the local time.
+daemon synchronizes the local clock to one or more remote NTP servers,
+and can also act as an NTP server itself,
+redistributing the local time.
+It implements the Simple Network Time Protocol version 4,
+as described in RFC 2030,
+and the Network Time Protocol version 3,
+as described in RFC 1305.
+.Pp
+.Nm
+is usually started at boot time, and can be enabled by
+setting the following in
+.Pa /etc/rc.conf.local :
+.Pp
+.Dl ntpd_flags=\&"\&"
+.Pp
+See
+.Xr rc 8
+and
+.Xr rc.conf 8
+for more information on the boot process
+and enabling daemons.
+.Pp
+When
+.Nm
+starts up, it reads settings from a configuration file,
+typically
+.Xr ntpd.conf 5 .
+.Pp
The options are as follows:
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.Bl -tag -width "-f fileXXX"
.It Fl d
-Do not daemonize and log to
+Do not daemonize.
+If this option is specified,
+.Nm
+will run in the foreground and log to
.Em stderr .
.It Fl f Ar file
-Specify an alternate location,
-.Ar file ,
-for the configuration file.
+Use
+.Ar file
+as the configuration file,
+instead of the default
+.Pa /etc/ntpd.conf .
.El
.Sh FILES
-.Bl -tag -width "/etc/ntpd.conf" -compact
+.Bl -tag -width "/etc/ntpd.confXXX" -compact
.It Pa /etc/ntpd.conf
+default
.Nm
-configuration file.
+configuration file
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr date 1 ,
diff --git a/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.conf.5 b/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.conf.5
index 2ba943a2132..927b1d587b7 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.conf.5
+++ b/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ntpd.conf.5,v 1.6 2004/07/09 14:56:57 jaredy Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ntpd.conf.5,v 1.7 2004/07/13 19:51:38 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 Henning Brauer <henning@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -21,15 +21,10 @@
.Nm ntpd.conf
.Nd Network Time Protocol daemon configuration file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-The
+This manual page describes the format of the
.Xr ntpd 8
-daemon implements the Network Time Protocol
-.Pq NTP
-version 4.
-This manual page describes the format of its configuration file,
-.Nm .
-.Pp
-The configuration file has the following format:
+configuration file.
+It has the following format:
.Pp
Empty lines and lines beginning with the
.Sq #
@@ -85,14 +80,14 @@ servers pool.ntp.org
.Ed
.El
.Sh FILES
-.Bl -tag -width "/etc/ntpd.conf" -compact
+.Bl -tag -width "/etc/ntpd.confXXX" -compact
.It Pa /etc/ntpd.conf
+default
.Xr ntpd 8
configuration file
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr ntpd 8 ,
-.Xr rdate 8
+.Xr ntpd 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm