From c0482931956d127b5f09d4a8d72758cd4cb1f097 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tar Committer <tar@ocjtech.us>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:51:41 +0000
Subject: Imported from rancid-2.3.2a3.tar.gz.

---
 man/rancid.conf.5.in | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man/rancid.conf.5.in')

diff --git a/man/rancid.conf.5.in b/man/rancid.conf.5.in
index 4a86364..e89568a 100644
--- a/man/rancid.conf.5.in
+++ b/man/rancid.conf.5.in
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 .\"
-.\" $Id: rancid.conf.5.in,v 1.14 2005/07/07 01:09:13 heas Exp $
+.\" $Id: rancid.conf.5.in,v 1.15 2005/08/15 00:41:51 heas Exp $
 .\"
 .hys 50
-.TH "rancid.conf" "5" "5 July 2005"
+.TH "rancid.conf" "5" "13 August 2005"
 .SH NAME
 rancid.conf \- rancid environment configuration file
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -32,10 +32,12 @@ The following variables are used (listed alphabetically):
 .B BASEDIR
 BASEDIR is the directory where
 .B rancid-run's
-log directory and where the CVS repository and rancid collection group
-directories will be placed.  Its value is configure's localstatedir and
-should be modified if rancid is moved to a new location in the file
-system without re-installing from the distribution.
+log directory, the revision control system's repository, and rancid group
+directories will be placed.
+.sp
+Its value is configure's localstatedir and should be modified if rancid is
+moved to a new location in the file system without re-installing from the
+distribution.
 .sp
 Default: @localstatedir@
 .\"
@@ -44,8 +46,9 @@ Default: @localstatedir@
 .IR cvs (1)
 and
 .IR rancid-cvs (1)
-use this environment variable to locate the CVS repository.  It should
-not be necessary to alter it.
+use this environment variable to locate the CVS repository.
+In some cases, and for Subversion, it is used as an argument to commands.
+It should not be necessary to alter it.
 .sp
 Default: $BASEDIR/CVS
 .\"
@@ -152,10 +155,11 @@ this is not set.
 If set,
 .IR rancid (1)
 will use temporary files to save the output from the router and then read
-these to build the file which will be saved in CVS.  Otherwise, an IPC
-pipe will be used.  We have found that the buffering mechanisms used in
-perl and expect are heinous.  Using temporary files may result in a noticeable
-improvement in speed.  By default, this is not set.
+these to build the file which will be saved in CVS (or Subversion).
+Otherwise, an IPC pipe will be used.  We have found that the buffering
+mechanisms used in perl and expect are heinous.
+Using temporary files may result in a noticeable improvement in speed.
+By default, this is not set.
 .\"
 .TP
 .B OLDTIME
@@ -196,6 +200,18 @@ Its value is set by configure.  Should it be necessary to modify PATH,
 note that it must include @bindir@.
 .\"
 .TP
+.B RCSSYS
+Sets which revision control system is in use.
+Valid values are
+.B cvs
+for CVS
+or
+.B svn
+for Subversion.
+.sp
+Default: cvs
+.\"
+.TP
 .B TERM
 Some Unix utilities require TERM, the terminal type, to be set to a sane
 value.  Some clients, such as
-- 
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