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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-19 17:57:20 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-19 17:57:20 +0000
commit480390dc59325200978ed49a1b26f00a94c91baa (patch)
tree062c09ac43a080a68cd77af35c77fcac0d938f46 /usr.sbin/ypbind
parentfb660b4c0cea9ae33d3d4dac0984c52ed7b6eeb0 (diff)
Remove hard sentence breaks. Add $OpenBSD$ tags where appropriate. Some other
cleanup along the way.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/ypbind')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/ypbind/ypbind.816
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/ypbind/ypbind.8 b/usr.sbin/ypbind/ypbind.8
index 77397826ba5..94e227cfe7c 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/ypbind/ypbind.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/ypbind/ypbind.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ypbind.8,v 1.13 2000/01/22 02:17:51 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ypbind.8,v 1.14 2000/03/19 17:57:17 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: ypbind.8,v 1.2 1996/02/28 01:21:00 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ finds the server for a particular YP domain and stores information about it
in a
.Pa binding file.
This binding information includes the IP address of the server associated with
-that particular domain and which port the server is using. This information
-is stored in the directory
+that particular domain and which port the server is using.
+This information is stored in the directory
.Pa /var/yp/binding
in a file named with the convention
.Pa DOMAINNAME.version.
@@ -75,10 +75,12 @@ assumes it will need to use broadcasts to find a valid server.
Using either of these techniques,
.Nm
will search for a server willing to serve maps for the
-client's domain. Once a binding is established,
+client's domain.
+Once a binding is established,
.Nm
maintains this binding by periodically communicating with the server to which
-it is bound. If the binding is somehow lost, e.g by server reboot,
+it is bound.
+If the binding is somehow lost, e.g by server reboot,
.Nm
marks the domain as unbound and attempts to re-establish the binding.
When the binding is once again successful,
@@ -97,8 +99,8 @@ to which a domain is bound.
.It Fl insecure
permit binding to a
.Xr ypserv 8
-on a non-reserved port. This is needed if receiving maps from
-SunOS 3.x or Ultrix.
+on a non-reserved port.
+This is needed if receiving maps from SunOS 3.x or Ultrix.
.El
.Pp
The