[ntp:hackers] Re: problems in ntpdate.1

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Fri Dec 10 08:57:17 PST 2004


Sir,

1. This document was not generated by me.

2. I do not produce man pages in any standard format.

3. All of my documentation is provided ONLY in html format to no 
particular format convention.

4. I have resisted ripoffs of my html pages in any other format.

5. However, if ripoffs do occur, I have requested that they be 
accompanied with a disclaimer that the official original is ONLY in html 
format at the official documentation site www.ntp.org.

David Mills

esr at thyrsus.com wrote:

>This is automatically generated email about problems in a man page for which
>you appear to be responsible.  If you are not the right person or list, tell
>me and I will attempt to correct my database.
>
>See http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter/problems.html for details on how and
>why these patches were generated.  Feel free to email me with any questions.
>Note: These patches do not change the mod date of any manual page.  You
>may wish to do that by hand.
>
>Problems with ntpdate.1:
>
>1. Broken command synopsis syntax.  This may mean you're using a
>construction in the command synopsis other than the standard
>[ ] | { }, or it may mean you have running text in the command synopsis
>section (the latter is not technically an error, but it's impossible
>to translate into DocBook markup).
>
>--- ntpdate.1-orig	2004-02-15 17:40:11.000000000 -0500
>+++ ntpdate.1	2004-02-15 17:40:45.000000000 -0500
>@@ -1,18 +1,7 @@
> .\" Automatically generated from HTML source. DO NOT EDIT!
> .TH ntpdate 1 "" "ntp 4.1.1b-r5"
> .SH NAME
>-ntpdate - set the date and time via NTP
>-
>-Disclaimer: The functionality of this program is now available
>-in the 
>-\fBntpd\fR  program. See the 
>-\fB-q\fR  command line
>-option in the 
>-\fBntpd\fR  - Network Time
>-Protocol (NTP) daemon page. After a suitable period of
>-mourning, the 
>-\fBntpdate\fR  program is to be retired from this
>-distribution
>+ntpdate \- set the date and time via NTP
> .SH SYNOPSIS
> 
> \fBntpdate [ -bBdoqsuv ] [ -a 
>@@ -29,6 +18,17 @@
> \fIserver\fR  [ ... ]\fR 
> .SH DESCRIPTION
> 
>+Disclaimer: The functionality of this program is now available
>+in the 
>+\fBntpd\fR  program. See the 
>+\fB-q\fR  command line
>+option in the 
>+\fBntpd\fR  - Network Time
>+Protocol (NTP) daemon page. After a suitable period of
>+mourning, the 
>+\fBntpdate\fR  program is to be retired from this
>+distribution
>+
> \fBntpdate\fR  sets the local date and time by polling the
> Network Time Protocol (NTP) server(s) given as the 
> \fIserver\fR arguments to determine the correct time. It must be run as root on
>-----------------------------
>
>--
>                             Eric S. Raymond
>  
>




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