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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ $| = 1; # (c) 2002 Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org> -# $Id: pingd,v 1.82 2002/10/25 11:00:07 weasel Exp $ +# $Id: pingd,v 1.83 2002/12/13 06:44:21 weasel Exp $ # =pod @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ pingd - echolot ping daemon =head1 DESCRIPTION -pingd is a the heart of echolot. Echolot is a pinger for anonymous remailers. +pingd is the heart of echolot. Echolot is a pinger for anonymous remailers. A Pinger in the context of anonymous remailers is a program that regularily sends messages through remailers to check their reliability. It then calculates @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Additionally it collects configuration parameters and keys of all remailers and offers them in a format readable by remailer clients. When called without parameters pingd schedules tasks like sending pings, -processing incoming mail and requesting remailer-xxx data and runs them in +processing incoming mail and requesting remailer-xxx data and runs them at configurable intervalls. =head1 COMMANDS @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Send the running pingd process a SIGTERM. Sends a HUP signal to the daemon which instructs it to process the commands. -For other affects of sending the HUP Signal see the SIGNALS section below. +For other effects of sending the HUP Signal see the SIGNALS section below. =item B<add> I<address> [I<address> ...] @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ Dumps the current configuration to standard output. =item B<--basedir> -The home directory to which everything else is relative to. See the BASE +The home directory to which everything else is relative. See the BASE DIRECTORY section below. =item B<--verbose> @@ -171,11 +171,11 @@ Verbose mode. Causes B<pingd> to print debugging messages about its progress. =item B<--quiet> -Quiet mode. Be even more quient than normally. +Quiet mode. Be even quieter than normal. =item B<--help> -Print a short help and exit sucessfully. +Print a short help message and exit sucessfully. =item B<--version> @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ B<buildkeys>, or B<buildthesaurus> command. Don't send a HUP signal to the daemon which instructs it to process the commands after adding the command to the task list. -Per default such a signal is sent. +By default such a signal is sent. =item B<--process> @@ -208,10 +208,10 @@ Tell B<pingd> to detach. =head1 BASE DIRECTORY -The home directory to which everything else is relative to. +The home directory to which everything else is relative. Basedir defaults to whatever directory the B<pingd> binary is located. It can -get overridden by the B<ECHOLOT_HOME> environment variable which in turn is +be overridden by the B<ECHOLOT_HOME> environment variable which in turn is weaker than the B<--basedir> setting. This directory is then used to locate the configuration file B<pingd.conf> (see @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ The B<homedir> setting in B<pingd.conf> finally sets the base directory. =head1 FILES -The configuration file is searched in those places in that order: +The configuration file is searched in these places in this order: =over @@ -255,12 +255,12 @@ The configuration file is searched in those places in that order: On B<SIGINT>, B<SIGQUIT>, and B<SIGTERM> B<pingd> will schedule a shutdown for as soon as the current actions are finished or immediatly if no actions are -currently beeing processed. It will then write all metadata and pingdata to +currently being processed. It will then write all metadata and pingdata to disk and close all files cleanly before exiting. On B<SIGHUP> <pingd> will execute any pending commands from the commands file -(B<commands.txt> per default). It also closes and reopens the file 'output' -which is used for stdout and stderr in case the daemon was told to detach. +(B<commands.txt> by default). It also closes and reopens the file 'output' +which is used for stdout and stderr when the daemon is running detached. This can be used if you want to rotate that file. =head1 AUTHOR |