-.\" $OpenBSD: relayd.conf.5,v 1.89 2008/07/19 10:52:32 reyk Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: relayd.conf.5,v 1.90 2008/07/19 16:35:50 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org>
.\" Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 Pierre-Yves Ritschard <pyr@openbsd.org>
If this table is used by a relay, it will also specify the number of
retries for outgoing connection attempts.
.It Ic parent Ar number
-The optional parent option allows to inherit the state from a parent
+The optional parent option inherits the state from a parent
host with the specified identifier.
The check will be skipped for this host and copied from the parent host.
This can be used to prevent multiple checks on hosts with multiple IP
addresses for the same service.
The host identifiers are sequentially assigned to the configured hosts
-starting with 1; it can be figured out with the
+starting with 1; it can be shown with the
.Xr relayctl 8
.Ic show summary
commands.