From 9f370893fafaeacdd78f5488cfa8b76fdee0d224 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guus Sliepen Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:18:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Don't bother to chown, and correctly document ConnectTo. --- doc/tinc.texi | 28 ++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/tinc.texi b/doc/tinc.texi index 0ce939a2..44bec212 100644 --- a/doc/tinc.texi +++ b/doc/tinc.texi @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ \input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- -@c $Id: tinc.texi,v 1.8.4.30 2002/06/21 10:11:10 guus Exp $ +@c $Id: tinc.texi,v 1.8.4.31 2002/07/16 13:18:27 guus Exp $ @c %**start of header @setfilename tinc.info @settitle tinc Manual @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 1998-2002 Ivo Timmermans , Guus Sliepen and Wessel Dankers . -$Id: tinc.texi,v 1.8.4.30 2002/06/21 10:11:10 guus Exp $ +$Id: tinc.texi,v 1.8.4.31 2002/07/16 13:18:27 guus Exp $ Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 1998-2002 Ivo Timmermans , Guus Sliepen and Wessel Dankers . -$Id: tinc.texi,v 1.8.4.30 2002/06/21 10:11:10 guus Exp $ +$Id: tinc.texi,v 1.8.4.31 2002/07/16 13:18:27 guus Exp $ Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are @@ -635,12 +635,9 @@ ethertap devices: @example mknod -m 600 /dev/tap0 c 36 16 -chown 0.0 /dev/tap0 mknod -m 600 /dev/tap1 c 36 17 -chown 0.0 /dev/tap0 ... mknod -m 600 /dev/tap@emph{N} c 36 @emph{N+16} -chown 0.0 /dev/tap@emph{N} @end example There is a maximum of 16 ethertap devices. @@ -650,7 +647,6 @@ following device file (unless it already exist): @example mknod -m 600 /dev/tun c 10 200 -chown 0.0 /dev/tun @end example If you use Linux, and you run the new 2.4 kernel using the devfs filesystem, @@ -851,15 +847,15 @@ This option may not work on all platforms. @cindex ConnectTo @item @strong{ConnectTo = } -Specifies which host to connect to on startup. Multiple ConnectTo -variables may be specified, if connecting to the first one fails then -tinc will try the next one, and so on. It is possible to specify -hostnames for dynamic IP addresses (like those given on dyndns.org), -tinc will not cache the resolved IP address. - -If you don't specify a host with ConnectTo, regardless of whether a -value for ConnectPort is given, tinc won't connect at all, and will -instead just listen for incoming connections. +Specifies which other tinc daemon to connect to on startup. +Multiple ConnectTo variables may be specified, +in which case outgoing connections to each specified tinc daemon are made. +The names should be known to this tinc daemon +(i.e., there should be a host configuration file for the name on the ConnectTo line). + +If you don't specify a host with ConnectTo, +tinc won't try to connect to other daemons at all, +and will instead just listen for incoming connections. @cindex Device @item @strong{Device = } (/dev/tap0 or /dev/misc/net/tun) -- 2.39.5