From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 3 8: 7:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D56037B416; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 08:07:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (lcl234.zbzoom.net [208.236.36.234]) by pittgoth.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g33G5u603320; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:05:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:13:53 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: trhodes@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/36457: [PATCH] timed(8) Message-Id: <20020403111353.5dcc5a97.darklogik@pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: References: <200204020310.g323A2J41698@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 02 Apr 2002 14:06:23 -0800 swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: > writes: [SNIP] > On further examination, I guess it'd be better yet without commas > in the short list of three items, so I'd prefer the last of these: > > If two or more time daemons, whether timed, or ntpd(1), or others > try to adjust the same clock, temporal chaos will result. [wrong] > > If two or more time daemons, whether timed, or ntpd(1), or others, > try to adjust the same clock, temporal chaos will result. [ok] > > If two or more time daemons, whether timed or ntpd(1) or others, try > to adjust the same clock, temporal chaos will result. [best] If two or more time daemons attempt to access the same clock, temperal chaos will result. [better?] In my opinion, saying timed(8) and ntpd(8) again would be nothing but repeating. At this point I feel the user or reader should know better than to start two time daemons. I also feel its common sence, I didn't like the old sentence, but I really don't like what we are replacing it with. What do you think about just omitting the daemon names here all togeather. If we use your last sentence, i'd like to omit the ``or others'' because it doesn't sound right, at least to me it doesn't... I'd rather get an opinion on this though. -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.FreeBSD.org -The Power To Serve www.Pittgoth.com -Pittgoth Discussion Portal trhodes@{Pittgoth.com, FreeBSD.org} PGP key by www: http://www.pittgoth.com/~darklogik/darklogik.key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message