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abs 060eb8b211 Clarify difference between master.passwd and passwd 1999-12-16 22:02:00 +00:00
christos 476a45b425 Mention what happens when we fail to find a library. 1999-12-13 11:02:10 +00:00
christos 850a441636 Document the new hardware library line format. 1999-12-13 11:01:21 +00:00
itojun c683c60c73 recommend use of multi-line /etc/ifconfig.xxN than /etc/ifaliases, or
$ifaliases_xxN in /etc/rc.conf.
(no behavior change in /etc/netstart, comments only)

see recent tech-userlevel for discussions.
1999-11-29 01:40:33 +00:00
lukem ba16b62d8f - document $accounting, $dmesg (and $dmesg_flags)
- cull copyright.
1999-11-23 08:12:22 +00:00
is 460584968f Document what the & character does in the Gecos field.
By Greg A. Woods (PR 8655).
1999-10-28 09:24:55 +00:00
kristerw ed7ff6e2e3 Fixed typos (mostly from OpenBSD) 1999-10-16 20:17:29 +00:00
jdolecek 9dfae77a40 xref signal(7) instead of sigaction(2) 1999-10-10 15:17:43 +00:00
hwr 2a6b812352 s/remplaced/replaced/ 1999-10-10 15:04:47 +00:00
bouyer 510907ed01 Document CTL_PROC, the core filename format it core(5), and xref sysctl(8),
sysctl(3), core(5) in various place.
Document 'options DEFCORENAME' inj options(4) and $defcorename in rc.conf(5).
1999-09-28 14:52:32 +00:00
tron 4c33d8ac2b Replace "nullfs" by "null". Fixes PR misc/8481 by Feico Dillema. 1999-09-23 16:03:12 +00:00
itojun f043b1bf0b document rtsold.
improve rtsol section.
1999-09-03 14:36:43 +00:00
christos 253f5bbf85 mention elf, clarify a.out 1999-08-20 03:06:44 +00:00
lukem 101ccd31ba group is used by getgrent(3) not getpwent(3).
noticed by Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
1999-07-29 00:11:28 +00:00
itojun 94e64335b4 add IPv6 configuration (ip6forwarding, rtsol, route6d and rtadvd).
Right now netsetart does not bother you even if you do not have
"options INET6" in the kernel.
1999-07-03 03:29:29 +00:00
tv eb3125637f Remove my copyright and leave only the TNF assignment. 1999-04-06 02:52:40 +00:00
ross 99db3ac727 To say `deprecated' is to say that `lookup file bind' still works, but is
discouraged and may someday be replaced. Instead, use words like `ignored'
and `superseded', which describe the true situation.
1999-03-30 09:01:58 +00:00
mellon c9da010ab6 Document new variables required to automate DHCP client startup. 1999-03-24 17:29:07 +00:00
mycroft 66902a3cfd Remove blank lines. 1999-03-24 06:14:18 +00:00
is 0964728c64 domestic'' is a relative specification 1999-03-18 20:30:22 +00:00
garbled 7a1aea16bc More and more .Os cleanups. .Os is defined in the tmac.doc-common file,
so we shouldn't override it with versions in the manpages.  Many more to
come.
1999-03-17 20:19:44 +00:00
sommerfe 0bf14e7e01 commit a revised version of the suggested change in pr7105.
delete reference to (no longer used) NBPI parameter.
instead, insert crossref to newfs(8)
1999-03-11 04:13:24 +00:00
erh 55f3a4b91b Fix .Bl/.El imbalance. 1999-03-10 09:29:08 +00:00
mycroft 44d59c44f1 Fix minor formatting error. 1999-03-07 04:19:36 +00:00
hubertf 56cf13b4d6 remove pkgsrc specific documentation (we stay at mk.conf.example) 1999-02-24 14:22:36 +00:00
mrg bdadd56346 add a new fstab type "dp" for the user-specified dump device.
change swapctl -A to see this and add it via swapctl(2).  also
add a new swapctl -D <device> to change the dump device on the
fly.
1999-02-23 17:00:53 +00:00
hubertf b7663b627c Remove "GPL" from list of licenses that need mentioning in ACEPTABLE_LICENSES 1999-02-22 00:30:39 +00:00
hubertf ca433f9adb Crossref packages(7), add GPL as another option to ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES,
mention that PASSIVE_FETCH is the default in NetBSD-current, clarify
that many of the variables are only used inside the NetBSD packages
collection, document WINDOWMAKER_OPTIONS, move section no how to override
the MASTER_SITES_* to packages(7).
1999-02-21 14:23:29 +00:00
abs dade5b2993 Handle + in master.passwd (From PR#4802).
Also, handle + in group and allow max_loginlen to be configurable.
1999-02-18 18:53:32 +00:00
hubertf 518f812372 - Mention pkgsrc/mk/mk.conf.examples earlier
- USE_LOCALBASE_FOR_X11 is not ready for prime time, remove.
1999-02-17 00:54:53 +00:00
lukem b9477eb489 documentation for /etc/mk.conf 1999-02-17 00:08:42 +00:00
lukem 21d8edf42e use .Ss to separate subsections, add TNF copyright for bits i've added 1999-02-15 12:42:12 +00:00
lukem 55b8af8ad4 s/retreived/retrieved/ 1999-02-08 04:03:04 +00:00
mrg eddf0f4e2c increase the securelevel (using the same rules as before) much earlier in the
boot process.  before cron, sendmail, inetd, etc, are run, but after lkms are
loaded.  this avoids the chances of `@reboot', mail .forwards, remote logins,
etc., happening before the securelevel has been raised.
1999-01-31 08:46:58 +00:00
lukem 712ba4aec4 after discussion with greg hudson, change default classes back to "in,hs" 1999-01-25 22:36:19 +00:00
lukem 177a852ae8 add hesiod.conf(5) 1999-01-25 03:48:35 +00:00
mycroft 75fee98847 Put back the rhosts(5) and master.passwd(5) links. 1999-01-23 13:02:19 +00:00
lukem 02d5dba4bc netgroup default was more like "files [notfound=return] nis" 1999-01-22 03:27:56 +00:00
thorpej d0ca88ef29 Document the netgroup default of files nis. 1999-01-21 23:08:16 +00:00
ross 290601029b Kill bogus unmatched .Bd. I can probably jazz up the end macro to detect
things like this and narc on the offenders.
1999-01-20 23:28:10 +00:00
lukem e612d0da5f fix spelos and tyops. document networks and group defaults 1999-01-20 03:03:25 +00:00
lukem c7e9373f32 formatting nits 1999-01-19 08:28:03 +00:00
lukem 83eb1ce66b note new defaults for hosts, passwd, and passwd_compat 1999-01-19 08:26:14 +00:00
lukem 5adb0df2bb be consistent in formatting source names 1999-01-18 12:12:05 +00:00
lukem abda4deb17 reference nsswitch.conf(5) as necessary
change references from YP to NIS.
1999-01-16 14:16:41 +00:00
lukem a320c57d58 clarify compat mode. remove references to nis+ for now 1999-01-15 23:06:36 +00:00
lukem 97cc62d6c3 merge nsswitch into main branch 1999-01-15 13:04:10 +00:00
msaitoh 4d24950345 s/IT/It/ 1999-01-01 19:05:23 +00:00
ender 3a8d666d11 Fix a typo noticed by maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com> 1998-12-06 20:15:01 +00:00
ross f2a855ff0e Note that #lines are comments. 1998-10-18 22:49:16 +00:00
mellon 785a5b82d6 Document hf flag 1998-10-18 12:17:16 +00:00
kleink 2ba841847e Use UTC instead of GMT, and rearrange the wording a bit. 1998-09-05 19:21:24 +00:00
pk e8b5010119 Assign my copyrights to TNF. 1998-09-05 13:36:49 +00:00
tsarna c89a574ffa Execute ttyaction on termination of rlogind/telnetd sessions.
Also, say a little bit about ttyaction in the getty and login manpages.
1998-08-29 17:31:55 +00:00
lukem f35b097b81 fix capitalisation 1998-08-29 08:37:37 +00:00
lukem 8d2c1463af document check_disklabels 1998-08-25 13:50:45 +00:00
tv a5786dc458 Add a ranlib(5) based on the one from Berkeley ranlib(1). 1998-08-22 05:36:32 +00:00
tv e69dff6119 Add an ar(5) manual page based on the one from the Berkeley ar(1). 1998-08-22 05:29:56 +00:00
fair a24259ddd5 fix date 1998-07-16 08:43:25 +00:00
fair 7f57f59a0e a note about where to get IP address space 1998-07-10 06:38:53 +00:00
fair c747f25617 update this man page to reflect modern reality 1998-07-10 06:13:49 +00:00
mrg 2ddd261d51 add about 7 missing filesystems from the large list, and add a lot of man page xrefs 1998-06-29 23:50:51 +00:00
nathanw e14ca04293 Document shortcorename support and control. 1998-06-28 21:36:55 +00:00
lukem 2671d5320b remove unnecessary paragraph separator 1998-06-08 11:17:58 +00:00
fair fa72f5de98 fix bad .Xr references 1998-04-29 11:33:55 +00:00
fair dc026e0515 Change occurrences of "UNIX" to .Ux or .At as appropriate. 1998-04-28 06:00:51 +00:00
matthias 9ee03f2bb3 Document "config" and all other undocumented genassym.sh commands. 1998-04-25 19:53:17 +00:00
ross 7c7c171d13 Add David Brownlee's new intro pages, with editing. (PR #534[23])
Also, while here, expand apparently incorrectly .Dd month abbreviations.
(I thought about doing this in tmac/doc-common...heh...that would have
allowed a possible reverse map back to abbreviations.)
1998-04-22 07:14:30 +00:00
hubertf 6b6c65a06d fix typo, as per PR 5296 by Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> 1998-04-15 16:46:40 +00:00
mrg a8e990c9b5 document "screenblank." 1998-04-07 04:47:53 +00:00
hubertf 998ea8d804 sys/inode.h -> ufs/ufs/inode.h, as noted by bgrayson@ece.utexas.edu in PR 5245. 1998-04-03 06:26:47 +00:00
hubertf 663644670d Add some details on when filters are run. 1998-02-20 12:24:50 +00:00
hubertf e797ce3f09 Did _you_ know you can put lp=port@host into your printcap? 1998-02-20 11:10:14 +00:00
perry 34a98169f0 macroize BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and misc cleanup 1998-02-06 05:54:12 +00:00
perry 3fe138c146 RCS Id Police. 1998-01-09 08:03:16 +00:00
ross 58371eeff6 Correct spelling and xrefs. 1997-12-03 06:44:23 +00:00
tv 027eb1a7cf A hosts.equiv/.rhosts manual page, written from scratch 1997-11-26 17:49:35 +00:00
tv 053d7e2447 aesthetic fix; add a .Pp 1997-11-26 17:42:55 +00:00
lukem 0e3b290810 fix .Nx usage (use 1.0 instead of 0.9a, etc), and other minor cleanups 1997-11-24 06:28:50 +00:00
mrg c8bd86bc0c document critical_filesystems and no_swap 1997-11-23 04:18:14 +00:00
ross 2f6d733317 Add #include <sys/types.h> to man page to document existing practice.
(PR misc/4540.)
1997-11-23 00:13:13 +00:00
mrg ec406750b1 document ppp_peers 1997-11-17 17:45:34 +00:00
mrg 6be07a674c add missing .Nm calls and MLINKS. from spz@serpens.swb.de 1997-11-12 00:47:32 +00:00
jonathan 6ba565c4d3 Add options to rc.conf and rc to start xfs (x font server) and xdm.
Add entries to rc.conf.5.
While we're here, note that the domestic kerberos damons are still
Kerberos IV, not kerberos version 5.
1997-11-11 02:28:58 +00:00
fair 98bc6788d4 Correct error and .Nm clarification per PR#4410. 1997-11-05 07:13:44 +00:00
mycroft 1a5d0febcd Use bsd.man.mk and bsd.subdir.mk as appropriate. 1997-10-11 08:22:03 +00:00
mrg 74f573d85d remove advertising clause from all my licenses. 1997-10-10 05:39:47 +00:00
jtc 516fb1f380 Fix tipo inherited from old version of TNF copyright form.
s/REGENTS/FOUNDATION/.
1997-10-08 21:59:52 +00:00
mycroft 24f9e74a03 Clarify comment regarding rotation, and remove another comment which has never
been true.  Also add an xref for newsyslog(8).  Partly from Geoff Wing.
1997-10-08 13:47:18 +00:00
mrg b23947b599 make a link to master.passwd.5 from passwd.5 1997-09-11 07:42:20 +00:00
mikel 0658ff6a8b make some changes, from Enami Tsugutomo in PR misc/4066.
I also made some changes of my own.
1997-09-02 03:03:49 +00:00
cjs c3b0e18db8 Split rc.conf variables for starting programs into two: an on/off
switch and a set of flags. Get rid of DEFAULT flags entirely. Print
warnings if on/off switches are not set, or are set incorrectly.
Add a shell function to simplify this on/off switch testing.
1997-08-29 02:24:04 +00:00
thorpej a9ac3f4261 Document syntax supported by internal processing in ld.so, from
Jim Bernard <jbernard@tater.mines.edu>, PR #4031.
1997-08-26 19:33:20 +00:00
lukem 3c2037d893 * -1 is a special value for pw_change - it forces password change at next login.
* highlight reminder of impending change/expire in the 14 days prior to the
  event.
1997-08-16 13:52:43 +00:00
mrg 3f5be650bc swapon -> swapctl 1997-07-21 05:10:46 +00:00
mikel 1041a0a14a don't xref nonexistent mount(1) 1997-07-16 05:45:28 +00:00
drochner e1a91d04c2 Document the new "when" field. 1997-07-14 11:56:31 +00:00
mikel f49f836e0e xref gethostname(3) not obsolete gethostname(2) 1997-07-14 01:49:25 +00:00
mikel 809a01767c there is no dbx(5) 1997-07-10 07:08:23 +00:00
mikel cb104d7c96 xref gdb(1), not obsolete dbx(1) 1997-07-10 07:06:18 +00:00
mikel d568a943bd eliminate obsolete xref to adb(1), add some relevant xrefs
update literal text from current <sys/types.h>
1997-07-10 06:56:38 +00:00
mikel c29d171485 kill xrefs to obsolete debuggers 1997-07-10 04:37:22 +00:00
lukem 24bf9e11c9 update reference for su(1) special group to read `group wheel' instead
of `group 0'
1997-07-02 06:19:54 +00:00
rat fea7c96230 'backsups' --> 'backups' 1997-07-01 22:55:26 +00:00
lukem 80e31290c5 use a tagged .Bl rather than a .Bd with tab separated fields... 1997-06-27 16:10:12 +00:00
mrg 90a52da37a move man pages into share/man. 1997-06-23 03:30:19 +00:00
lukem 579f2fb483 * clean up a couple of typos.
* clarify how a utmp record is deleted upon logout.
* clarify the format of a wtmp record appended at logout (from
  Geoff Wing <mason@primenet.com.au> in [misc/3196]
1997-06-22 08:11:08 +00:00
lukem d5143aca1c document "options inet6" 1997-06-08 06:00:06 +00:00
kleink 21693b3a6f Move Xref to ldconfig(8) into the right section; from NAKAJIMA Yoshihiro
<nakayosh@kcn.or.jp> in PR/3715.
1997-06-06 15:06:18 +00:00
lukem 6de0bcebfd document $hostname, $domainname, $defaultroute and $ifaliases_XXX 1997-05-12 11:28:19 +00:00
mikel 698eafc238 update to match reality. changes include:
- add missing update_motd and ntpdate_hosts variables
- fix incorrect variable names (syslogd_flags and kerberos_server)
- xntpd(8) has been integrated
- kerberos_server is no longer used by rc.local
- add some xrefs
plus some misc. cleanup.
1997-05-12 05:21:51 +00:00
mellon 86b1df4e9f Document dc flag 1997-04-20 00:05:27 +00:00
cjs 8075b68cc3 Move network interface config after programs run on boot-up, to match
the order this actually happens in at boot time. Fix a few minor typos.
1997-04-02 02:02:51 +00:00
perry 98a833ca5c document net_interfaces, ifconfig_* 1997-04-01 20:17:43 +00:00
cjs cdd442b698 Re-write. 1997-03-23 07:57:22 +00:00
perry 55a6ac03fd Correction: ifaliases appeared in 1.2 1997-03-18 04:50:56 +00:00
perry 50bfaaee22 close enami tsugutomo's pr-3346 -- silly mistake in description of page 1997-03-18 04:48:42 +00:00
cjs 9da2a1ed80 Rewrote second paragraph, and added mopd in a new format. All the other
entries will be converted soon after feedback is received.
1997-03-17 01:22:49 +00:00
scottr d35d739042 Document statd_flags and lockd_flags 1997-03-10 07:06:17 +00:00
mouse 75e150fc56 alternate -> alternative, per PR 2643 1997-03-08 14:02:43 +00:00
ghudson fc073ea198 Document the meaning of gid 0 to the su command. 1997-02-01 02:46:38 +00:00
matthias 1370131ffd Add scripts and documentation for a new method to create assym.h files.
With the kern/genassym.sh script HOSTED_CC is no longer used to create
assym.h files. This should make crosscompilation easier.
1997-01-30 09:37:20 +00:00
perry 52f1b2a82d fs_passno comment dump->fsck, fixes 3150 from Andrew Wheadon 1997-01-27 22:10:18 +00:00
tls 44c4201ae4 sync to current layout of includes 1997-01-27 09:38:13 +00:00
perry ca876d2670 remove nsswitch.conf.5 -- not in tree (yet) 1997-01-24 21:27:33 +00:00
lukem dff93f1d73 (this shouldn't have been in the main trunk) 1997-01-23 12:25:22 +00:00
cjs 36dd47d99f Fix another minor nit pointed out by Klaus Klein <kleink@layla.inka.de> 1997-01-08 21:01:11 +00:00
mikel 1bc33c232b fix some typos. 1997-01-07 07:31:32 +00:00
tls b27eb547ea change rc.conf.5 to reflect change to Kerberos stuff in rc.local, as per mrg 1997-01-07 05:37:36 +00:00
cjs a85445f340 PR 3085: typo. Fix from frueauf@ira.uka.de. 1997-01-06 18:30:46 +00:00
mrg a9d07e01a7 fix minor nit. 1997-01-05 12:10:10 +00:00
mrg 5fb9b57376 add man pages for mostly new and some old configuration files. 1997-01-05 11:50:12 +00:00
gwr a1cdc82ad3 Add ttyaction.5 1996-11-14 17:40:55 +00:00
lukem 5d37ffa7eb fix the the typos 1996-11-10 23:58:22 +00:00
lukem b2fad7ebc5 initial nsswitch implementation 1996-11-06 00:16:27 +00:00
mrg b2be16e47c document the (no)auto option. 1996-05-21 10:55:52 +00:00
scottr 2dc058d31b Update search list length limit to match reality. 1996-03-06 18:22:16 +00:00
thorpej 9e1da3de59 Document the "ms" field, per Shinya Taniguchi
<tng@nuclth15.phys.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp> in PR #1789.
1996-01-15 02:04:05 +00:00
pk c7ad3faee9 Document hint file v.2 1996-01-09 00:14:32 +00:00
pk a67e5e52e2 ufs -> ffs & two more filesystem types (from Mike Long; PR#1766). 1995-11-16 09:41:53 +00:00
ghudson f41166264d Update cross-references. From John Hawkinson. 1995-10-22 01:40:10 +00:00
jtc d9789d4225 Overlay our pcvt with pcvt 3.32 sources. All of our fixes have been
incorporated into the master sources, so it is unnecessary to resolve
all the conflicts that would occur if we let CVS "merge" the versions.
1995-10-07 21:43:25 +00:00
pk 996bd19dd0 Update (incl. PR#1547). 1995-09-30 21:28:19 +00:00
phil c9d0b91d53 Improvements to YP support from Jason Downs. 1995-07-28 06:41:39 +00:00
cgd ad294f7eb0 build/install netgroup man page from here. 1995-05-11 23:13:15 +00:00
jtc a5c856b8c8 KERNEL -> _KERNEL 1995-03-28 17:29:16 +00:00
cgd 0114e805ce convert to new RCS Id conventions; reduce my headache 1995-03-18 14:54:19 +00:00
jtc 93c0a2ddc0 Changed isofs to cd9660.
Bug was reported by Carsten Hammer in PR #779.
1995-02-03 18:17:32 +00:00
glass 60d17d8522 do the cross-ref thang 1994-12-28 18:58:53 +00:00
glass ac082c889e this is really dave's fault :) 1994-12-28 09:59:44 +00:00