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discuss commit: Man page improvements for discussd and disserve
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan D Reed)
Tue Mar 4 13:55:25 2014
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 13:55:17 -0500
From: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
Message-Id: <201403041855.s24ItHo8023557@drugstore.mit.edu>
To: source-commits@MIT.EDU
https://github.com/mit-athena/discuss/commit/791197979cb02593b0fd53ae072f730157347ff1
commit 791197979cb02593b0fd53ae072f730157347ff1
Author: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Date: Mon Feb 24 00:33:48 2014 -0500
Man page improvements for discussd and disserve
- Incorporate changes from Alex Dehnert to clarify
the purpose of disserve and discussd, and also correct
typos.
discussd.8 | 7 +++++--
disserve.8 | 7 +++++--
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/discussd.8 b/discussd.8
index 1103dba..3d28f91 100644
--- a/discussd.8
+++ b/discussd.8
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
.\" This is an -*- nroff -*- source file.
.\"
-.TH DISCUSSD 8 "9 September 2012" "Discuss" "deabthena-discuss-server"
+.TH DISCUSSD 8 "9 September 2012" "Discuss" "debathena-discuss-server"
.SH NAME
-discussd \- Component of discuss server
+discussd \- remote access component of discuss server
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B discussd
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -10,5 +10,8 @@ The
.B discussd
program is a component of the discuss server. Is it not intended to be
run by hand.
+
+\fBdiscussd\fR is typically run by \fIinetd\fR(8) to handle remote access to discuss meetings.
+
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR discuss (1)
diff --git a/disserve.8 b/disserve.8
index 7dea511..e58f904 100644
--- a/disserve.8
+++ b/disserve.8
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
.\" This is an -*- nroff -*- source file.
.\"
-.TH DISSERVE 8 "9 September 2012" "Discuss" "deabthena-discuss-server"
+.TH DISSERVE 8 "9 September 2012" "Discuss" "debathena-discuss-server"
.SH NAME
-disserve \- Component of discuss server
+disserve \- local access component of discuss server
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B disserve
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -10,5 +10,8 @@ The
.B disserve
program is a component of the discuss server. Is it not intended to be
run by hand.
+
+\fBdisserve\fR is typically installed setuid and run (by \fBdiscuss\fR(1) or \fImkds\fR(8), for example) to handle local access to discuss meetings.
+
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR discuss (1)
