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various cleanup:

- mention '#' comments
- fix macros for directives
- typos
- change list display
- ntp -> NTP
- slight rewording
help and ok jmc
ok henning otto
OPENBSD_3_6
jaredy 20 years ago
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1 changed files with 22 additions and 15 deletions
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      src/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.conf.5

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src/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntpd.conf.5 View File

@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $OpenBSD: ntpd.conf.5,v 1.5 2004/07/09 10:56:35 henning Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: ntpd.conf.5,v 1.6 2004/07/09 14:56:57 jaredy Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 Henning Brauer <henning@openbsd.org>
.\"
@ -28,10 +28,17 @@ daemon implements the Network Time Protocol
version 4.
This manual page describes the format of its configuration file,
.Nm .
The settings are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "listenonXX"
.It Ar listen on
Specify a local IP address the
.Pp
The configuration file has the following format:
.Pp
Empty lines and lines beginning with the
.Sq #
character are ignored.
.Pp
The possible keywords are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ic listen on Ar address
Specify a local IP address or a hostname the
.Xr ntpd 8
daemon should listen on.
It can appear multiple times:
@ -50,28 +57,28 @@ listen on *
listen on 127.0.0.1
listen on ::1
.Ed
.It Ar server
.It Ic server Ar address
Specify the IP address or the hostname of an NTP
server to syncronize to.
If the hostname resolves to multiple IPv4 and/or IPv6 adresses,
server to synchronize to.
If the hostname resolves to multiple IPv4 and/or IPv6 addresses,
.Xr ntpd 8
uses the first address.
If it does not get a reply,
.Xr ntpd 8
retries with the next address and continues to do so unless a working address
retries with the next address and continues to do so until a working address
is found.
For example:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
server 10.0.0.2
server ntp.example.org
.Ed
.It Ar servers
.It Ic servers Ar address
As with
.Ar server ,
specify the IP address or hostname of an ntp server to synchronize to.
Should the hostname resolve to multiple IP adresses,
.Cm server ,
specify the IP address or hostname of an NTP server to synchronize to.
Should the hostname resolve to multiple IP addresses,
.Xr ntpd 8
will try synchronize to all of them.
will try to synchronize to all of them.
For example:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
servers pool.ntp.org
@ -80,7 +87,7 @@ servers pool.ntp.org
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/etc/ntpd.conf" -compact
.It Pa /etc/ntpd.conf
.Nm
.Xr ntpd 8
configuration file
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO


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