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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-08-17 20:34:18 UTC
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* Makefile (MANPOST): Bug fix: do not replace *all* "een" with "en".

* mandos.xml: More improvements.  Replaced " with <quote>'s.
  (NETWORK PROTOCOL): Replaced <informaltable> with <table> with a
                      <title>.
  (CHECKING): New section describing the continual checking of
              clients.
  (LOGGING): We log to /dev/log, not syslog(3).
  (FILES): Changed to use a <variablelist> instead of an
           <itemizedlist>.  Added "/dev/log" and brief descriptions of
           all files.
  (BUGS): Added content.
  (EXAMPLES): - '' -
  (SECURITY): Added content to subsections "SERVER" and "CLIENTS".

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    <title>Mandos Manual</title>
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    <productname>Mandos</productname>
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        <firstname>Björn</firstname>
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        <surname>Påhlsson</surname>
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          <email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
 
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        <firstname>Teddy</firstname>
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        <surname>Hogeborn</surname>
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          <email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
 
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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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        This manual page is free software: you can redistribute it
 
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        License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
 
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        This manual page is distributed in the hope that it will
 
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      Configuration file for the Mandos server
 
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      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, and is read by it at
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      startup.  The configuration file starts with <quote><literal
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      >value</replaceable></quote> is also accepted.  Note that
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