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authorsheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>2000-03-02 14:54:02 +0000
committersheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>2000-03-02 14:54:02 +0000
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Remove more single-space hard sentence breaks.
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/ypserv/ypserv.8 b/usr.sbin/ypserv/ypserv.8
index 08d82f8..1576843 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/ypserv/ypserv.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/ypserv/ypserv.8
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ maps in a special way.
When the server receives a request to access
either of these two maps, it will check the TCP port from which the
request originated and return an error if the port number is greater
-than 1023. Since only the superuser is allowed to bind to TCP ports
+than 1023.
+Since only the superuser is allowed to bind to TCP ports
with values less than 1024, the server can use this test to determine
whether or not the access request came from a privileged user.
Any requests made by non-privileged users are therefore rejected.
@@ -236,7 +237,8 @@ called
(Note that this path varies depending on the path specified with
the
.Fl p
-option, which is explained below.) This file contains entries
+option, which is explained below.)
+This file contains entries
that consist of a network specification and a network mask separated
by white space.
Lines starting with
@@ -339,7 +341,8 @@ It is generally a good idea to force the servers to
bind to themselves rather than allowing them to broadcast bind
requests and possibly become bound to each other: strange failure
modes can result if one server goes down and
-others are dependent upon on it. (Eventually all the clients will
+others are dependent upon on it.
+(Eventually all the clients will
time out and attempt to bind to other servers, but the delay
involved can be considerable and the failure mode is still present
since the servers might bind to each other all over again).
@@ -404,10 +407,12 @@ request that it receives.
Also, while running in debug mode,
.Nm
will not spawn any additional subprocesses as it normally does
-when handling yp_all requests or doing DNS lookups. (These actions
+when handling yp_all requests or doing DNS lookups.
+(These actions
often take a fair amount of time to complete and are therefore handled
in subprocesses, allowing the parent server process to go on handling
-other requests.) This makes it easier to trace the server with
+other requests.)
+This makes it easier to trace the server with
a debugging tool.
.It Fl p Ar path
Normally,
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