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authorJason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>2013-06-27 21:51:44 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-07-02 23:06:22 -0400
commite9dd9f9547350c7dc0473583b5c2228dc8f0ab76 (patch)
tree8c40d1a1e527a09974839ac44a3b7b3d19232758 /man/hostnamectl.xml
parent6824690f140f45064157d220a24b9afbeb1d093f (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'.]
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diff --git a/man/hostnamectl.xml b/man/hostnamectl.xml
index 801ab3a7bf..d7a9e92879 100644
--- a/man/hostnamectl.xml
+++ b/man/hostnamectl.xml
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@
query and change the system hostname and related
settings.</para>
- <para>This tool distinguishes three different host
- names: the high-level "pretty" hostname which might
- include all kinds of special characters
+ <para>This tool distinguishes three different
+ hostnames: the high-level "pretty" hostname which
+ might include all kinds of special characters
(e.g. "Lennart's Laptop"), the static hostname which
is used to initialize the kernel hostname at boot
(e.g. "lennarts-laptop"), and the transient hostname
@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@
and transient hostnames are limited to the usually
accepted characters of internet domain names.</para>
- <para>The static host name is stored in
+ <para>The static hostname is stored in
<filename>/etc/hostname</filename>, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>hostname</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- for more information. The pretty host name, chassis
+ for more information. The pretty hostname, chassis
type and icon name are stored in
<filename>/etc/machine-info</filename>, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
@@ -143,8 +143,8 @@
<listitem><para>If
<command>set-hostname</command> is
invoked and one or more of these
- options are passed only the selected
- hostnames is
+ options are passed, only the selected
+ hostname(s) is/are
updated.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
@@ -164,34 +164,34 @@
<term><command>set-hostname [NAME]</command></term>
<listitem><para>Set the system
- hostname. By default this will alter
+ hostname. By default, this will alter
the pretty, the static, and the
- transient hostname alike, however if
+ transient hostname alike; however, if
one or more of
<option>--static</option>,
<option>--transient</option>,
- <option>--pretty</option> are used
+ <option>--pretty</option> are used,
only the selected hostnames are
changed. If the pretty hostname is
being set, and static or transient are
- being set as well the specified host
- name will be simplified in regards to
- the character set used before the
+ being set as well, the specified
+ hostname will be simplified in regards
+ to the character set used before the
latter are updated. This is done by
- replacing spaces by "-" and removing
+ replacing spaces with "-" and removing
special characters. This ensures that
- the pretty and the static hostname
- are always closely related while still
+ the pretty and the static hostname are
+ always closely related while still
following the validity rules of the
specific name. This simplification of
the hostname string is not done if
- only the transient and/or static host
- names are set, and the pretty host
- name is left untouched. Pass the empty
- string "" as hostname to reset the
- selected hostnames to their default
- (usually
- "localhost").</para></listitem>
+ only the transient and/or static
+ hostnames are set, and the pretty
+ hostname is left untouched. Pass the
+ empty string "" as the hostname to
+ reset the selected hostnames to their
+ default (usually "localhost").
+ </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@
Naming Specification</ulink>. Pass an
empty string to this operation to
reset the icon name to the default
- value which is determined from chassis
+ value, which is determined from chassis
type (see below) and possibly other
parameters.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>