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author | Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> | 2013-06-27 21:51:44 +0200 |
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committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2013-07-02 23:06:22 -0400 |
commit | e9dd9f9547350c7dc0473583b5c2228dc8f0ab76 (patch) | |
tree | 8c40d1a1e527a09974839ac44a3b7b3d19232758 /man/hostname.xml | |
parent | 6824690f140f45064157d220a24b9afbeb1d093f (diff) |
man: improve grammar and word formatting in numerous man pages
Use proper grammar, word usage, adjective hyphenation, commas,
capitalization, spelling, etc.
To improve readability, some run-on sentences or sentence fragments were
revised.
[zj: remove the space from 'file name', 'host name', and 'time zone'.]
Diffstat (limited to 'man/hostname.xml')
-rw-r--r-- | man/hostname.xml | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man/hostname.xml b/man/hostname.xml index f89332e983..5971ad4345 100644 --- a/man/hostname.xml +++ b/man/hostname.xml @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ <refnamediv> <refname>hostname</refname> - <refpurpose>Local host name configuration file</refpurpose> + <refpurpose>Local hostname configuration file</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> @@ -59,17 +59,17 @@ during boot, with the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sethostname</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> system call. It should contain a single - newline-terminated host name string. The - host name may be a free-form string up to 64 characters - in length, however it is recommended that it consists - only of 7bit ASCII lower-case characters and no spaces or dots, + newline-terminated hostname string. The + hostname may be a free-form string up to 64 characters + in length; however, it is recommended that it consists + only of 7-bit ASCII lower-case characters and no spaces or dots, and limits itself to the format allowed for DNS domain name labels, even though this is not a strict requirement.</para> - <para>Depending on the operating system other + <para>Depending on the operating system, other configuration files might be checked for configuration - of the host name as well, however only as fallback.</para> + of the hostname as well, however only as fallback.</para> <para>You may use <citerefentry><refentrytitle>hostnamectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> |