From: Jan Engelhardt Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 07:01:45 +0000 (+0200) Subject: man: wording and grammar updates X-Git-Tag: v207~33 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6b4991cfde6c0a0b62e836ca75ae362779c474d4;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git man: wording and grammar updates This includes regularly-submitted corrections to comma setting and orthographical mishaps that appeared in man/ in recent commits. In this particular commit: - the usual comma fixes - expand contractions (this is prose) --- diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml index b52caa47bfd..a5778bf3696 100644 --- a/man/journalctl.xml +++ b/man/journalctl.xml @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ - is very similar + is very similar, but shows monotonic timestamps instead of wallclock timestamps. diff --git a/man/sd_journal_get_cursor.xml b/man/sd_journal_get_cursor.xml index 861927e2e11..4cee7d5b636 100644 --- a/man/sd_journal_get_cursor.xml +++ b/man/sd_journal_get_cursor.xml @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ returns 0 on success or a negative errno-style error code. sd_journal_test_cursor() returns positive if the current entry matches the - specified cursor, 0 if it doesn't match the specified + specified cursor, 0 if it does not match the specified cursor or a negative errno-style error code on failure. diff --git a/man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml b/man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml index 1c6f25005ea..c4387b0856e 100644 --- a/man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml +++ b/man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml @@ -232,15 +232,15 @@ else { SD_JOURNAL_APPEND or SD_JOURNAL_INVALIDATE on success or a negative errno-style error code. If - SD_JOURNAL_NOP is returned the - journal didn't change since the last invocation. If - SD_JOURNAL_APPEND is returned new + SD_JOURNAL_NOP is returned, the + journal did not change since the last invocation. If + SD_JOURNAL_APPEND is returned, new entries have been appended to the end of the - journal. If SD_JOURNAL_INVALIDATE + journal. If SD_JOURNAL_INVALIDATE, journal files were added or removed (possibly due to - rotation). In the latter event live-view UIs should - probably refresh their entire display while in the - case of SD_JOURNAL_APPEND it is + rotation). In the latter event, live-view UIs should + probably refresh their entire display, while in the + case of SD_JOURNAL_APPEND, it is sufficient to simply continue reading at the previous end of the journal. diff --git a/man/sd_notify.xml b/man/sd_notify.xml index 7d968903972..fc0f2f69273 100644 --- a/man/sd_notify.xml +++ b/man/sd_notify.xml @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ the status was sent these functions return with a positive return value. In order to support both, init systems that implement this scheme and those which - don't, it is generally recommended to ignore the return + do not, it is generally recommended to ignore the return value of this call. diff --git a/man/shutdown.xml b/man/shutdown.xml index af799c66490..795fb663288 100644 --- a/man/shutdown.xml +++ b/man/shutdown.xml @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ - Don't halt, power-off, + Do not halt, power-off, reboot, just write wall message. @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ - Don't send wall + Do not send wall message before halt, power-off, reboot. diff --git a/man/systemd-backlight@.service.xml b/man/systemd-backlight@.service.xml index f2f54728a3f..2b73625e91a 100644 --- a/man/systemd-backlight@.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd-backlight@.service.xml @@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ systemd-backlight@.service is a service that restores the display backlight brightness at early-boot and saves it at shutdown. On - disk the backlight brightness is stored in + disk, the backlight brightness is stored in /var/lib/backlight/. Note that by - default only firmware backlight devices are + default, only firmware backlight devices are saved/restored. diff --git a/man/systemd-cgls.xml b/man/systemd-cgls.xml index 53e7f7ddd8f..2877f22126e 100644 --- a/man/systemd-cgls.xml +++ b/man/systemd-cgls.xml @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ - Don't hide empty + Do not hide empty control groups in the output. diff --git a/man/systemd-efi-boot-generator.xml b/man/systemd-efi-boot-generator.xml index 03a4fdd0b83..3a79dfb8df0 100644 --- a/man/systemd-efi-boot-generator.xml +++ b/man/systemd-efi-boot-generator.xml @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ systemd-efi-boot-generator is a generator that automatically creates mount and - automount units for the EFI System Partition (ESP) + automount units for the EFI System Partition (ESP), mounting it to /boot. Note that this generator will execute no operation on non-EFI systems, on systems where the boot loader does not @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ /boot is an explicitly configured mount (for example, listed in fstab5) or where the /boot mount point is non-empty. Since this generator creates an - automount unit the mount will only be activated + automount unit, the mount will only be activated on-demand, when accessed. systemd-efi-boot-generator diff --git a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml index e55933d069d..6264e48dbc9 100644 --- a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml +++ b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ /var/log/journal exists, it will be bind mounted into the container. If the - subdirectory doesn't exist, no + subdirectory does not exist, no linking is performed. Effectively, booting a container once with guest or diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml index b761832ed6b..2c673a2a968 100644 --- a/man/systemd.exec.xml +++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ - @@ -327,8 +326,8 @@ absolute filename or wildcard expression, optionally prefixed with -, which indicates - that if the file does not exist it - won't be read and no error or warning + that if the file does not exist, it + will not be read and no error or warning message is logged. This option may be specified more than once in which case all specified files are read. If the @@ -835,7 +834,7 @@ InaccessibleDirectories= may be prefixed with -, in which case - they will be ignored when they don't + they will be ignored when they do not exist. @@ -972,7 +971,7 @@ sigreturn, exit_group, exit system calls - are implicitly whitelisted and don't + are implicitly whitelisted and do not need to be listed explicitly. This option may be specified more than once in which case the filter masks are diff --git a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml index 452406c676f..cffcccb53ef 100644 --- a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml +++ b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml @@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/json">Journal JSON Format, the addresses of journal entries are serialized into fields prefixed with double - underscores. Note that these aren't proper fields when + underscores. Note that these are not proper fields when stored in the journal but for addressing meta data of entries. They cannot be written as part of structured log entries via calls such as diff --git a/man/systemd.mount.xml b/man/systemd.mount.xml index 214f40c7429..9aac94e1a1a 100644 --- a/man/systemd.mount.xml +++ b/man/systemd.mount.xml @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ using configuration not specified in /etc/fstab; mount8 - will refuse options that aren't listed in + will refuse options that are not listed in /etc/fstab if it is not run as UID 0. diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml index 238a49a2512..5df554ca12d 100644 --- a/man/systemd.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd.service.xml @@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ was stopped. This includes cases where the commands configured in ExecStop= were used, - where the service doesn't have any + where the service does not have any ExecStop= defined, or where the service exited unexpectedly. This argument takes multiple command lines, @@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ in other words: the Service= setting of .socket units - doesn't have to match the inverse of + does not have to match the inverse of the Sockets= setting of the .service it diff --git a/man/systemd.special.xml b/man/systemd.special.xml index 2900808ef4e..4d066071453 100644 --- a/man/systemd.special.xml +++ b/man/systemd.special.xml @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ after it. Note that networking daemons that simply provide functionality to other hosts - generally don't need to pull + generally do not need to pull this in. diff --git a/man/systemd.time.xml b/man/systemd.time.xml index 4f6dd0f0865..3d13b573fa4 100644 --- a/man/systemd.time.xml +++ b/man/systemd.time.xml @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ but when the weekday is specified it must either be in the abbreviated (Wed) or non-abbreviated (Wednesday) English - language form (case doesn't matter), and is not + language form (case does not matter), and is not subject to the locale choice of the user. Either the date, or the time part may be omitted, in which case the current date or 00:00:00, resp., is assumed. The diff --git a/man/systemd.xml b/man/systemd.xml index 9f58bc2f827..47d6438939a 100644 --- a/man/systemd.xml +++ b/man/systemd.xml @@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ option prefixed with rd. is honored only in the initial RAM disk (initrd), - while the one that isn't prefixed only + while the one that is not prefixed only in the main system. diff --git a/man/telinit.xml b/man/telinit.xml index 4c6064f54ae..bb8093914ac 100644 --- a/man/telinit.xml +++ b/man/telinit.xml @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ - Don't send wall + Do not send wall message before reboot/halt/power-off. diff --git a/man/timedatectl.xml b/man/timedatectl.xml index 16ee3df4be7..9aade29a787 100644 --- a/man/timedatectl.xml +++ b/man/timedatectl.xml @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ - Don't query the user + Do not query the user for authentication for privileged operations. diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml index 6a2193d67d6..025c8018d94 100644 --- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml +++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null f - Create a file if it doesn't exist yet (optionally writing a short string into it, if the argument parameter is passed) + Create a file if it does not exist yet (optionally writing a short string into it, if the argument parameter is passed) @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null d - Create a directory if it doesn't exist yet + Create a directory if it does not exist yet @@ -132,22 +132,22 @@ L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null p - Create a named pipe (FIFO) if it doesn't exist yet + Create a named pipe (FIFO) if it does not exist yet L - Create a symlink if it doesn't exist yet + Create a symlink if it does not exist yet c - Create a character device node if it doesn't exist yet + Create a character device node if it does not exist yet b - Create a block device node if it doesn't exist yet + Create a block device node if it does not exist yet