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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
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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/machine-id.xml b/man/machine-id.xml
index 1e558a6178..d7a56cb548 100644
--- a/man/machine-id.xml
+++ b/man/machine-id.xml
@@ -55,12 +55,12 @@
<title>Description</title>
<para>The <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> file
- contains the unique machine id of the local system
+ contains the unique machine ID of the local system
that is set during installation. The machine ID is a
- single newline-terminated, hexadecimal, lowercase 32
- character machine ID string. (When decoded from
- hexadecimal this corresponds with a 16 byte/128 bit
- string.)</para>
+ single newline-terminated, hexadecimal, 32-character,
+ lowercase machine ID string. When decoded from
+ hexadecimal, this corresponds with a 16-byte/128-bit
+ string.</para>
<para>The machine ID is usually generated from a
random source during system installation and stays
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
boot if it is found to be empty.</para>
<para>The machine ID does not change based on user
- configuration, or when hardware is replaced.</para>
+ configuration or when hardware is replaced.</para>
<para>This machine ID adheres to the same format and
logic as the D-Bus machine ID.</para>
@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@
<para>Programs may use this ID to identify the host
with a globally unique ID in the network, which does
not change even if the local network configuration
- changes. Due to this and its greater length it is
+ changes. Due to this and its greater length, it is
a more useful replacement for the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gethostid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- call POSIX specifies.</para>
+ call that POSIX specifies.</para>
<para>The
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-setup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@
<para>Note that the machine ID historically is not an
OSF UUID as defined by <ulink
url="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122">RFC
- 4122</ulink>, nor a Microsoft GUID. Starting with
- systemd v30 newly generated machine IDs however do
+ 4122</ulink>, nor a Microsoft GUID; however, starting with
+ systemd v30, newly generated machine IDs do
qualify as v4 UUIDs.</para>
<para>In order to maintain compatibility with existing