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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/hostated/hostated.conf.5')
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/hostated/hostated.conf.5 b/usr.sbin/hostated/hostated.conf.5 index f0985ede244..31c8cbc3f1d 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/hostated/hostated.conf.5 +++ b/usr.sbin/hostated/hostated.conf.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: hostated.conf.5,v 1.8 2007/01/03 09:42:30 reyk Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: hostated.conf.5,v 1.9 2007/01/08 13:37:26 reyk Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2006 Pierre-Yves Ritschard <pyr@spootnik.org> .\" @@ -115,6 +115,21 @@ a9993e36476816aba3e25717850c26c9cd0d89d Ping hosts in this table to determine whether they are up or not. This method will automatically use ICMP or ICMPV6 depending on the address family of each host. +.It Ic check send Ar data Ic expect Ar regexp +For each host in the table, a TCP connection is established on the +port specified, then +.Ar data +is sent. +Incoming data is then read and is expected to match against +.Ar regexp. +If +.Ar data +is an empty string or +.Ic nothing +then nothing is sent on the connection and data is immediately +read. +This can be useful with protocols that output a banner like +SMTP, NNTP and FTP. .It Ic check tcp Use a simple TCP connect to check that hosts are up. .It Ic disable |