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doc: update description of offline command

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Reachability and online/offline mode has no effect on source selection
since version 2.0.
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Miroslav Lichvar 2015-11-16 14:50:57 +01:00
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@ -4044,8 +4044,8 @@ next measurement has been made.
@node offline command
@subsubsection offline
The @code{offline} command is used to warn @code{chronyd} that the network
connection to a particular host or hosts is about to be lost. It should
be used on computers with a dial-up or similar connection to their time
connection to a particular host or hosts is about to be lost. It can
be used on computers with intermittent connection to their time
sources, to warn @code{chronyd} that the connection is about to be broken.
An example of how to use @code{offline} in this case is shown in
@ -4082,14 +4082,6 @@ achieve this. The situation is shown in the figure below.
@end example
If the source to which @code{chronyd} is currently synchronised is indicated
offline in this way, @code{chronyd} will continue to treat it as the
synchronisation source. If the network connection were broken without
the @code{offline} command being used, @code{chronyd} would assume that the
source had failed and would attempt to pick another synchronisation
source.
There are four forms of the @code{offline} command. The first form is a
wildcard, meaning all sources. The second form allows an IP address mask
and a masked address to be specified. The third form uses the CIDR