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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:13:00 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:13:00 +0000
commit6294018a208cf7742b1c021a9b75c26962505571 (patch)
tree502f17eb951b74c914af346cd4dbff252350c082 /usr.sbin/rwhod
parent3f44360851448f8816c22f6b72e8dd5c9924c27f (diff)
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Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/rwhod')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/rwhod/rwhod.836
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/rwhod/rwhod.8 b/usr.sbin/rwhod/rwhod.8
index e072697..0d861cc 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/rwhod/rwhod.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/rwhod/rwhod.8
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ utility is the server which maintains the database used by the
.Xr rwho 1
and
.Xr ruptime 1
-programs. Its operation is predicated on the ability to
+programs.
+Its operation is predicated on the ability to
.Em broadcast
or
.Em multicast
@@ -82,7 +83,8 @@ to ignore the source port on incoming packets.
.It Fl p
Ignore all
.Dv POINTOPOINT
-interfaces. This is useful if you do not wish to keep dial on demand
+interfaces.
+This is useful if you do not wish to keep dial on demand
interfaces permanently active.
.It Fl l
Enable listen mode, which causes
@@ -97,7 +99,8 @@ Cause
to use IP multicast (instead of
broadcast) on all interfaces that have
the IFF_MULTICAST flag set in their "ifnet" structs
-(excluding the loopback interface). The multicast
+(excluding the loopback interface).
+The multicast
reports are sent with a time-to-live of 1, to prevent
forwarding beyond the directly-connected subnet(s).
.Pp
@@ -114,7 +117,8 @@ via a SINGLE interface rather
than all interfaces.
.Ar ttl
must be between 0 and
-32 (or MAX_MULTICAST_SCOPE). Note that
+32 (or MAX_MULTICAST_SCOPE).
+Note that
.Fl m Ar 1
is different from
.Fl m ,
@@ -128,14 +132,17 @@ is used without a
.Ar ttl
argument, the program accepts multicast
.Nm
-reports from all multicast-capable interfaces. If a
+reports from all multicast-capable interfaces.
+If a
.Ar ttl
argument is given, it accepts multicast reports from only one interface, the
one on which reports are sent (which may be controlled via the host's routing
-table). Regardless of the
+table).
+Regardless of the
.Fl m
option, the program accepts broadcast or
-unicast reports from all interfaces. Thus, this program will hear the
+unicast reports from all interfaces.
+Thus, this program will hear the
reports of old, non-multicasting
.Nm Ns s ,
but, if multicasting is used,
@@ -172,16 +179,19 @@ struct whod {
.Ed
.Pp
All fields are converted to network byte order prior to
-transmission. The load averages are as calculated by the
+transmission.
+The load averages are as calculated by the
.Xr w 1
program, and represent load averages over the 5, 10, and 15 minute
intervals prior to a server's transmission; they are multiplied by 100
-for representation in an integer. The host name
+for representation in an integer.
+The host name
included is that returned by the
.Xr gethostname 3
system call, with any trailing domain name omitted.
The array at the end of the message contains information about
-the users logged in to the sending machine. This information
+the users logged in to the sending machine.
+This information
includes the contents of the
.Xr utmp 5
entry for each non-idle terminal line and a value indicating the
@@ -193,11 +203,13 @@ server are discarded unless they originated at an
.Nm rwho
server's port or the
.Fl i
-option was specified. In addition, if the host's name, as specified
+option was specified.
+In addition, if the host's name, as specified
in the message, contains any unprintable
.Tn ASCII
characters, the
-message is discarded. Valid messages received by
+message is discarded.
+Valid messages received by
.Nm
are placed in files named
.Pa whod.hostname
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