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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/atm/scspd/scspd.8')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/atm/scspd/scspd.8 | 41 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/atm/scspd/scspd.8 b/usr.sbin/atm/scspd/scspd.8 index dcb432ce3b1f..d369f611b70f 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/atm/scspd/scspd.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/atm/scspd/scspd.8 @@ -37,12 +37,14 @@ .Op Fl d .Op Fl T Ns Aq Ar options .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Scspd -is an implementation of the Server Cache Synchronization +The +.Nm +utility is an implementation of the Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP) for the Host ATM Research Platform (HARP) networking software. -.Nm Scspd -synchronizes the cache(s) of server(s) +The +.Nm +utility synchronizes the cache(s) of server(s) running on a host with the caches of servers on remote hosts. SCSP is defined for a number of different protocols, but the present version of @@ -71,8 +73,9 @@ and must be running before any ATMARP cache synchronization can take place. .Pp -.Nm Scspd -implements SCSP as specified in RFC 2334, +The +.Nm +utility implements SCSP as specified in RFC 2334, .%T "Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP)" and .Pa draft\-ietf\-ion\-scspd\-atmarpd\-00.txt , @@ -472,8 +475,9 @@ statement specifies how .Nm is to log information about its operation. -.Nm Scspd -can write log information to a file, to the system log, +The +.Nm +utility can write log information to a file, to the system log, or both. .Bl -tag -width indent .It Ic File Aq Ar file\ name ; @@ -492,8 +496,9 @@ statement specifies that .Nm is to write its log messages to the syslog facility. -.Nm Scspd -writes its messages to syslog with a facility code +The +.Nm +utility writes its messages to syslog with a facility code of .Dv LOG_DAEMON . .El @@ -553,7 +558,7 @@ its control blocks to a text file (see .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width indent .It Pa /etc/scspd.conf -.Nm Scspd +.Nm default configuration file name. A different file name can be specified with the .Fl f @@ -568,9 +573,10 @@ option. .Pa .out .Sm on .Xc -Debugging information dump file name. -.Nm Scspd -writes a summary of its control blocks to this file +debugging information dump file name. +The +.Nm +utility writes a summary of its control blocks to this file when it receives a .Dv SIGINT signal. @@ -586,9 +592,10 @@ number which is incremented every time a dump is taken. .Pa .trace .Sm on .Xc -Trace file. -.Nm Scspd -writes trace information to this file if the +trace file. +The +.Nm +utility writes trace information to this file if the .Fl T option is specified on the command line. .El |