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Re: discuss commit: Man page improvements for discussd and disserve
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Mar 4 19:08:06 2014
Message-Id: <201403050007.s2507vPC019846@outgoing.mit.edu>
To: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
cc: source-commits@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <201403041855.s24ItHo8023557@drugstore.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 19:07:57 -0500
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
For disserve, you should note that it's normally setuid *discuss* (just saying "setuid" implies suid root).
Jonathon
Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 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)
