X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fsonar.man;h=8dca55bc3407fb8d5a867a912e050b69dd5d6364;hb=2d04c4f22466851aedb6ed0f2919d148f726b889;hp=4a4b3bb28a61839550cb7aeb26e00aea5f2adf1a;hpb=a1d41b2aa6e18bf9a49b914a99dda8232c5d7762;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/hacks/sonar.man b/hacks/sonar.man index 4a4b3bb2..8dca55bc 100644 --- a/hacks/sonar.man +++ b/hacks/sonar.man @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ sonar - display a sonar scope [\-team-b-name \fIstring\fP] [\-team-a-count \fIint\fP] [\-team-b-count \fIint\fP] +[\-no\-dns] +[\-no\-times] [\-debug] .SH DESCRIPTION The \fIsonar\fP program displays a sonar scope on the computer's screen. @@ -103,6 +105,12 @@ names as the first element on each line. If you use ssh, try this: sonar -ping $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts .RE .TP 8 +.B \-no\-dns +Do not attempt to resolve IP addresses to hostnames. +.TP 8 +.B \-no\-times +Do not display ping times beneath the host names. +.TP 8 .B \-team-a-name \fIstring\fP In simulation mode, the name of team A. .TP 8 @@ -169,12 +177,21 @@ have as few setuid programs around as possible, on general principles. chown root.root sonar chmod u+s sonar .EE +In ping-mode, the display is a logarithmic scale, calibrated so that the +three rings represent ping times of approximately 2.5, 70 and 2,000 +milliseconds respectively. + +This means that if any the hosts you are pinging take longer than 2 +seconds to respond, they won't show up; and if you are pinging several +hosts with very fast response times, they will all appear close to the +center of the screen (making their names hard to read.) .SH SEE ALSO .BR X (1), .BR xscreensaver (1), .BR ping (8) .SH COPYRIGHT -Copyright \(co 1998 by Stephen Martin. (smartin@canada.com) +Copyright \(co 1998 by Stephen Martin. +Copyright \(co 2000-2004 by Jamie Zawinski Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that