man: fix indefinite articles (#3694)

6 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/man/crypttab.xml b/man/crypttab.xml
index 1de834a045..4b8d4aa3d6 100644
--- a/man/crypttab.xml
+++ b/man/crypttab.xml
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
     field is not present or the password is set to
     <literal>none</literal> or <literal>-</literal>, the password has
     to be manually entered during system boot. Otherwise, the field is
-    interpreted as a absolute path to a file containing the encryption
+    interpreted as an absolute path to a file containing the encryption
     password. For swap encryption, <filename>/dev/urandom</filename>
     or the hardware device <filename>/dev/hw_random</filename> can be
     used as the password file; using <filename>/dev/random</filename>
diff --git a/man/machinectl.xml b/man/machinectl.xml
index d3891332e4..597a5cc583 100644
--- a/man/machinectl.xml
+++ b/man/machinectl.xml
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@
         <listitem><para>Show properties of one or more registered
         virtual machines or containers or the manager itself. If no
         argument is specified, properties of the manager will be
-        shown. If an NAME is specified, properties of this virtual
+        shown. If a NAME is specified, properties of this virtual
         machine or container are shown. By default, empty properties
         are suppressed. Use <option>--all</option> to show those too.
         To select specific properties to show, use
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@
         <listitem><para>Show properties of one or more registered
         virtual machine or container images, or the manager itself. If
         no argument is specified, properties of the manager will be
-        shown. If an NAME is specified, properties of this virtual
+        shown. If a NAME is specified, properties of this virtual
         machine or container image are shown. By default, empty
         properties are suppressed. Use <option>--all</option> to show
         those too. To select specific properties to show, use
diff --git a/man/sd_event_add_time.xml b/man/sd_event_add_time.xml
index a2c0d54b56..2c0bd0ba10 100644
--- a/man/sd_event_add_time.xml
+++ b/man/sd_event_add_time.xml
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
     in µs.</para>
 
     <para><function>sd_event_source_get_time_accuracy()</function>
-    retrieves the configured accuracy value of a event source
+    retrieves the configured accuracy value of an event source
     created previously with <function>sd_event_add_time()</function>. It
     takes the event source object and a pointer to a variable to store
     the accuracy in. The accuracy is specified in µs.</para>
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
     the event source object and accuracy, in µs.</para>
 
     <para><function>sd_event_source_get_time_clock()</function>
-    retrieves the configured clock of a event source created
+    retrieves the configured clock of an event source created
     previously with <function>sd_event_add_time()</function>. It takes
     the event source object and a pointer to a variable to store the
     clock identifier in.</para>
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_get_data.xml b/man/sd_journal_get_data.xml
index 908ee7db16..1321114de0 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_get_data.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_get_data.xml
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
     in size — but the library might still return larger data objects.
     That means applications should not rely exclusively on this
     setting to limit the size of the data fields returned, but need to
-    apply a explicit size limit on the returned data as well. This
+    apply an explicit size limit on the returned data as well. This
     threshold defaults to 64K by default. To retrieve the complete
     data fields this threshold should be turned off by setting it to
     0, so that the library always returns the complete data objects.
diff --git a/man/systemd.netdev.xml b/man/systemd.netdev.xml
index 8f946c97ae..38aede84cb 100644
--- a/man/systemd.netdev.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.netdev.xml
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
           <entry>An IPv4 or IPv6 tunnel over IPv6</entry></row>
 
           <row><entry><varname>ip6gretap</varname></entry>
-          <entry>An Level 2 GRE tunnel over IPv6.</entry></row>
+          <entry>A Level 2 GRE tunnel over IPv6.</entry></row>
 
           <row><entry><varname>ipip</varname></entry>
           <entry>An IPv4 over IPv4 tunnel.</entry></row>
@@ -1142,7 +1142,7 @@ MACAddress=12:34:56:78:9a:bc</programlisting>
     </example>
     <example>
       <title>/etc/systemd/network/25-vrf.netdev</title>
-      <para>Create an VRF interface with table 42.</para>
+      <para>Create a VRF interface with table 42.</para>
       <programlisting>[NetDev]
 Name=vrf-test
 Kind=vrf
diff --git a/man/systemd.network.xml b/man/systemd.network.xml
index edf227c134..4541a55490 100644
--- a/man/systemd.network.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.network.xml
@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@
           <term><varname>ClientIdentifier=</varname></term>
           <listitem>
             <para>The DHCPv4 client identifier to use. Either <literal>mac</literal> to use the MAC address of the link
-            or <literal>duid</literal> (the default, see below) to use a RFC4361-compliant Client ID.</para>
+            or <literal>duid</literal> (the default, see below) to use an RFC4361-compliant Client ID.</para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>