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authorJason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>2013-12-10 00:10:03 -0500
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-12-10 05:07:31 -0500
commit8c9552c6b417c8dc8d66019bc8e412c8d736454d (patch)
treefe13ab0fdbcc0f3a8ab4869bbd2dcb0eb38f7ea1 /man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
parentf7e2bd5a8070ba86cba6bcbf7d1c9a8173d846d4 (diff)
man: improve wording and comma usage in systemd.journal-fields(7)
Improve wording under "Description" and "_KERNEL_DEVICE="
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd.journal-fields.xml')
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.journal-fields.xml16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
index 8a15598e63..bb89ed58d3 100644
--- a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
@@ -51,14 +51,14 @@
<title>Description</title>
<para>Entries in the journal resemble an environment
- block in their syntax, however with fields that can
+ block in their syntax but with fields that can
include binary data. Primarily, fields are formatted
UTF-8 text strings, and binary formatting is used only
where formatting as UTF-8 text strings makes little
sense. New fields may freely be defined by
applications, but a few fields have special
meaning. All fields with special meanings are
- optional. In some cases fields may appear more than
+ optional. In some cases, fields may appear more than
once per entry.</para>
</refsect1>
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
<term><varname>_UID=</varname></term>
<term><varname>_GID=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>The process, user and
+ <para>The process, user, and
group ID of the process the
journal entry originates from
formatted as a decimal
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
<term><varname>_CMDLINE=</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>The name, the executable
- path and the command line of
+ path, and the command line of
the process the journal entry
originates from.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -389,12 +389,12 @@
the major and minor of the
device node, separated by <literal>:</literal>
and prefixed by <literal>b</literal>. Similar
- for character devices, but
+ for character devices but
prefixed by <literal>c</literal>. For network
- devices the interface index,
+ devices, this is the interface index
prefixed by <literal>n</literal>. For all other
- devices <literal>+</literal> followed by the
- subsystem name, followed by
+ devices, this is the subsystem name
+ prefixed by <literal>+</literal>, followed by
<literal>:</literal>, followed by the kernel
device name.</para>
</listitem>