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authorcharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-14 14:47:15 +0000
committercharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-14 14:47:15 +0000
commitd2168fe021bd1693c1038503e09d3d74dd8b6f36 (patch)
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The .Nm utility
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/atm')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/atm/atmarpd/atmarpd.821
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/atm/scspd/scspd.841
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/atm/atmarpd/atmarpd.8 b/usr.sbin/atm/atmarpd/atmarpd.8
index 49aaebc..351b0c1 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/atm/atmarpd/atmarpd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/atm/atmarpd/atmarpd.8
@@ -38,12 +38,14 @@
.Aq Ar net_intf
.Ar ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm Atmarpd
-provides an interface between the ATMARP server in the
+The
+.Nm
+utility provides an interface between the ATMARP server in the
kernel and the SCSP daemon for the Host ATM Research Platform
(HARP) networking software.
-.Nm Atmarpd
-reads the ATMARP cache from the kernel periodically
+The
+.Nm
+utility reads the ATMARP cache from the kernel periodically
and passes any updated entries to
.Xr scspd 8
so they will be
@@ -67,14 +69,14 @@ itself into the background.
The command-line options are:
.Bl -tag -width "-l <log_file>"
.It Fl l Aq Ar log_file
-Specifies that
+Specify that
.Nm
is to write log messages to the
file named
.Aq Ar log_file
rather than to the system log.
.It Fl d
-Specifies that
+Specify that
.Nm
is to be run in debug mode.
In debug mode,
@@ -83,7 +85,7 @@ is not put into the background.
Log messages are written to standard output instead of to
the log file.
.It Aq Ar net_intf
-Specifies the network interface(s) for which the host is providing
+Specify the network interface(s) for which the host is providing
ATMARP service and whose caches are to be synchronized using SCSP.
If multiple network interface names are specified,
.Nm
@@ -118,8 +120,9 @@ its control blocks to a text file (see
.Sm on
.Xc
Debugging information dump file name.
-.Nm Atmarpd
-writes a summary of its control blocks to this file
+The
+.Nm
+utility writes a summary of its control blocks to this file
when it receives a
.Dv SIGINT
signal.
diff --git a/usr.sbin/atm/scspd/scspd.8 b/usr.sbin/atm/scspd/scspd.8
index dcb432c..d369f61 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/atm/scspd/scspd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/atm/scspd/scspd.8
@@ -37,12 +37,14 @@
.Op Fl d
.Op Fl T Ns Aq Ar options
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm Scspd
-is an implementation of the Server Cache Synchronization
+The
+.Nm
+utility is an implementation of the Server Cache Synchronization
Protocol (SCSP) for the Host ATM Research Platform (HARP)
networking software.
-.Nm Scspd
-synchronizes the cache(s) of server(s)
+The
+.Nm
+utility synchronizes the cache(s) of server(s)
running on a host with the caches of servers on remote hosts.
SCSP is defined for a number of different protocols, but the present
version of
@@ -71,8 +73,9 @@ and
must be running before any ATMARP
cache synchronization can take place.
.Pp
-.Nm Scspd
-implements SCSP as specified in RFC 2334,
+The
+.Nm
+utility implements SCSP as specified in RFC 2334,
.%T "Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP)"
and
.Pa draft\-ietf\-ion\-scspd\-atmarpd\-00.txt ,
@@ -472,8 +475,9 @@ statement specifies how
.Nm
is to log
information about its operation.
-.Nm Scspd
-can write log information to a file, to the system log,
+The
+.Nm
+utility can write log information to a file, to the system log,
or both.
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Ic File Aq Ar file\ name ;
@@ -492,8 +496,9 @@ statement specifies that
.Nm
is to write
its log messages to the syslog facility.
-.Nm Scspd
-writes its messages to syslog with a facility code
+The
+.Nm
+utility writes its messages to syslog with a facility code
of
.Dv LOG_DAEMON .
.El
@@ -553,7 +558,7 @@ its control blocks to a text file (see
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Pa /etc/scspd.conf
-.Nm Scspd
+.Nm
default configuration file name.
A different file name can be specified with the
.Fl f
@@ -568,9 +573,10 @@ option.
.Pa .out
.Sm on
.Xc
-Debugging information dump file name.
-.Nm Scspd
-writes a summary of its control blocks to this file
+debugging information dump file name.
+The
+.Nm
+utility writes a summary of its control blocks to this file
when it receives a
.Dv SIGINT
signal.
@@ -586,9 +592,10 @@ number which is incremented every time a dump is taken.
.Pa .trace
.Sm on
.Xc
-Trace file.
-.Nm Scspd
-writes trace information to this file if the
+trace file.
+The
+.Nm
+utility writes trace information to this file if the
.Fl T
option is specified on the command line.
.El
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