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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/machine-id.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/machine-id.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/machine-id.xml | 20 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
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 |