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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-08-20 03:22:45 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080820032245-ue341vdvzqdsg68l
* mandos (string_to_delta): Accept a whitespace-separated sequence of
                            intervals and return the sum.  This allows
                            "5m 30s" to be valid.
  (main): Provide an empty default value for the "host" option for
          "clients.conf", making it no longer a required option.

* mandos-clients.conf.xml: Removed <?xml-stylesheet>.
  (DESCRIPTION): Improved text.
  (DEFAULTS): Renamed to "OPTIONS".  Improved text for "timeout" and
              "interval".
  (CLIENTS): Removed; content moved to "OPTIONS".
  (EXPANSION): New section; document %(foo)s and %%(foo)s expansion.
  (FILES): Moved to before "EXAMPLES".
  (BUGS): New section.
  (EXAMPLES): Renamed to "EXAMPLE", as per man-pages(7).  Renamed
              example section "example_client" to "foo".  Changed
              example "host" setting to a more reasonable example host
              name.  Added additional example client "bar".

* mandos-conf.xml: Removed OVERVIEW entity.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY VERSION "1.0">
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos-keygen">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-08-31">
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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  <refentryinfo>
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    <title>Mandos Manual</title>
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    <productname>Mandos</productname>
 
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    <title>&COMMANDNAME;</title>
 
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    <productname>&COMMANDNAME;</productname>
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    <productnumber>&VERSION;</productnumber>
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    <date>&TIMESTAMP;</date>
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    <authorgroup>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Björn</firstname>
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    </authorgroup>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
 
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn &amp; Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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      <para>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--dir
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        <replaceable>DIRECTORY</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-d
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        <replaceable>DIRECTORY</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--type
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        <replaceable>KEYTYPE</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>KEYTYPE</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--length
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        <replaceable>BITS</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>BITS</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--subtype
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        <replaceable>KEYTYPE</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>KEYTYPE</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--sublength
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        <replaceable>BITS</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>BITS</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--name
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--email
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        <replaceable>ADDRESS</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>ADDRESS</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>TEXT</replaceable></option></arg>
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