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| 17 | .TH SYNCCONF 8 "4 Feb 1997" |
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| 18 | .SH NAME |
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| 19 | syncconf \- synchronize system configuration files with rc.conf |
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| 20 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| 21 | .B syncconf |
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| 22 | [ |
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| 23 | .B \-a |
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| 24 | ] [ |
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| 25 | .B \-n |
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| 26 | ] [ |
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| 27 | .B \-q |
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| 28 | ] |
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| 29 | .fi |
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| 30 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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| 31 | The |
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| 32 | .I syncconf |
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| 33 | script is used to propagate the state of |
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| 34 | .I rc.conf |
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| 35 | to vendor specific configuration files. This provides the possibility |
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| 36 | of a uniform interface for changing common machine configuration |
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| 37 | information across many operating systems, and frees system |
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| 38 | administrators from the need of remembering esoteric machine specific |
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| 39 | procedures. |
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| 40 | |
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| 41 | If ``SYNCCONFIG'' is set to true in |
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| 42 | .IR rc.conf , |
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| 43 | .I syncconf |
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| 44 | is run automatically early in the boot process and at shutdown time; |
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| 45 | .I syncconf should not |
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| 46 | normally need to be run by the user. |
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| 47 | .I rc.conf |
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| 48 | specifies which configuration variables are synchronized by |
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| 49 | .IR syncconf . |
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| 50 | .SH OPTIONS |
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| 51 | .I syncconf |
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| 52 | provides three options: |
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| 53 | .PP |
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| 54 | .TP 8 |
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| 55 | .B \-a |
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| 56 | This option causes |
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| 57 | .I syncconf |
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| 58 | to synchronize all options, not just the ones which have changed. |
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| 59 | .TP 8 |
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| 60 | .B \-n |
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| 61 | This option causes |
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| 62 | .I syncconf |
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| 63 | to echo the shell commands it would use to synchronize, but does not |
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| 64 | actually execute them. |
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| 65 | .TP 8 |
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| 66 | .B \-q |
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| 67 | This option causes |
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| 68 | .I syncconf |
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| 69 | not to give output on what, if anything, it is synchronizing. |
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| 70 | .SH FILES |
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| 71 | /etc/athena/rc.conf Athena configuration file |
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| 72 | /etc/athena/.rc.conf.sync synchronization state file |
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| 73 | .SH AUTHOR |
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| 74 | Craig Fields, MIT Information Systems |
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| 75 | .br |
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| 76 | Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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