Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 00:51:18 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new man pages Message-ID: <20000105005118.B61676@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <200001041927.LAA00721@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>; from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net on Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 11:27:32AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001041342300.4478-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl> <200001041927.LAA00721@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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According to Rodney W. Grimes: > xntpd was recently renamed ntpd, but the documentation and manual > pages was not. > You'll find the manual page for ntpd with a ``man xntpd''. Yes and no. The documentation is close for command line options but probably far behind for drivers. > And a side note for PHK. Could you change the rm -f /usr/sbin/xntpd > to instead replace /usr/sbin/xntpd with a LINK to ntpd for maximal I discussed that with Poul-Henning, Peter and David. I do not think that it is a good idea because: - there are many differences between the two. - if you don't use a refclock driver (the majority I think), there are few chances that you overwrote what's in /etc/defaults/rc.conf which means that conversion from xntpd to ntpd was immediate. - if you do have a refclock driver, you'll need to read the documentation and pointing to xntpd manpages won't help you. I prefer a clean break like we have. I only kept the old manpages (i.e. didn't delete them as I did for the binary) because we have a lack in this area. As soon as I get some time, I'll work with Sheldon who offered to merge the new documentation with the old manpages. As a stop-gap, I'll put ASCII generated versions in /usr/share/doc/ntp. > compatibility. You should probably also do an MLINK for ntpd->xntpd > man pages. I don't want to point to obsolete documentation. See above. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #77: Thu Dec 30 12:49:51 CET 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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