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authorcharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>1997-10-13 11:22:39 +0000
committercharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>1997-10-13 11:22:39 +0000
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Use err(3). Remove multiply defined Id string.
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/rpc.ypxfrd/rpc.ypxfrd.8 b/usr.sbin/rpc.ypxfrd/rpc.ypxfrd.8
index cba9879..5a403cc 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/rpc.ypxfrd/rpc.ypxfrd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/rpc.ypxfrd/rpc.ypxfrd.8
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $Id$
+.\" $Id: rpc.ypxfrd.8,v 1.5 1997/02/22 16:13:01 peter Exp $
.\"
.Dd June 2, 1996
.Dt RPC.YPXFRD 8
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
.Op Fl p Ar path
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
-.Nm rpc.ypxfrd
+.Nm
daemon is used to speed up the distribtion of very large NIS maps
from NIS master to NIS slave servers. The normal method for transfering
maps involves several steps:
@@ -83,18 +83,18 @@ and
.Pa passwd.by{name,uid} .
.Pp
The
-.Nm rpc.ypxfrd
+.Nm
server speeds up the transfer process by allowing NIS slave servers to
simply copy the master server's map files rather than building their
own from scratch. Simply put,
-.Nm rpc.ypxfrd
+.Nm
implements an RPC-based file transfer protocol. Transfering even
a multi-megabyte file in this fashion takes only a few seconds compared
to the several minutes it would take even a reasonably fast slave server
to build a new map from scratch.
.Pp
The
-.Nm rpc.ypxfrd
+.Nm
server uses the same access restriction mechanism as
.Xr ypserv 8 .
This means that slave servers will only be permitted to transfer
@@ -105,9 +105,8 @@ ports will be allowed to transfer the
.Pa master.passwd
maps.
.Sh OPTIONS
-The following options and flags are supported by
-.Nm rpc.ypxfrd :
-.Bl -tag -width flag
+The following option is available:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl p Ar path
This option can be used to override the default path to
the location of the NIS
@@ -125,15 +124,17 @@ The NIS maps for a particular NIS domain.
.Xr ypserv 8 ,
.Xr ypxfr 8
.Sh BUGS
-The FreeBSD
+The
+.Bx Free
.Nm ypxfrd
protocol is not compatible with that used by SunOS. This is unfortunate
but unavoidable: Sun's protocol is not freely available, and even if it
were it would probably not be useful since the SunOS NIS v2 implementation
-uses the original ndbm package for its map databases whereas the FreeBSD
+uses the original ndbm package for its map databases whereas the
+.Bx Free
implementation uses Berkeley DB. These two packages use vastly different
file formats. Furthermore, ndbm is byte-order sensitive and not very
smart about it, meaning that am ndbm database created on a big endian
system can't be read on a little endian system.
.Sh AUTHOR
-Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>
+.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu
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