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authorJan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>2013-10-15 08:58:51 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-10-15 08:19:49 -0400
commit72f4d9669c253d5bd7c126bf2e7a0db0198cf2eb (patch)
treea05e592987d304e6a6490bae85543639e2b7cac5 /man
parent0c7225549d539c77620e15c850c60e4dc124a131 (diff)
man: wording and grammar updates
This is a recurring submission and includes corrections to various issue spotted. I guess I can just skip over reporting ubiquitous comma placement fixes…
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/journalctl.xml6
-rw-r--r--man/systemctl.xml6
-rw-r--r--man/systemd-cgtop.xml6
-rw-r--r--man/systemd-cryptsetup-generator.xml4
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.exec.xml8
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.resource-control.xml6
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.scope.xml2
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.service.xml2
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.unit.xml4
-rw-r--r--man/tmpfiles.d.xml6
-rw-r--r--man/udevadm.xml12
11 files changed, 31 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml
index 2ce81a0563..508f1dd534 100644
--- a/man/journalctl.xml
+++ b/man/journalctl.xml
@@ -157,14 +157,14 @@
<term><option>-l</option></term>
<listitem><para>Ellipsize fields when
- they don't fit in available columns.
+ they do not fit in available columns.
The default is to show full fields,
allowing them to wrap or be truncated
by the pager if one is used.</para>
- <para>Old options
+ <para>The old options
<option>-l</option>/<option>--full</option>
- not useful anymore, except to undo
+ are not useful anymore, except to undo
<option>--no-full</option>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
index e789d4b629..be6b5ea1fb 100644
--- a/man/systemctl.xml
+++ b/man/systemctl.xml
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
<para>Depending on whether <option>--system</option>,
<option>--user</option>, <option>--runtime</option>,
- or<option>--global</option>, is specified, this enables the unit
+ or <option>--global</option> is specified, this enables the unit
for the system, for the calling user only, for only this boot of
the system, or for all future logins of all users, or only this
boot. Note that in the last case, no systemd daemon
@@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
</para>
<para>This command honors <option>--system</option>,
- <option>--user</option>, <option>--runtime</option>,
+ <option>--user</option>, <option>--runtime</option> and
<option>--global</option> in a similar way as
<command>enable</command>.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
<command>disable</command>, since it prohibits all kinds of
activation of the unit, including manual activation. Use
this option with care. This honors the
- <option>--runtime</option> option, to only mask temporarily
+ <option>--runtime</option> option to only mask temporarily
until the next reoobt of the system.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/systemd-cgtop.xml b/man/systemd-cgtop.xml
index 7faedfbfdb..01a0ae2163 100644
--- a/man/systemd-cgtop.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-cgtop.xml
@@ -79,15 +79,15 @@
<varname>CPUAccounting=1</varname>,
<varname>MemoryAccounting=1</varname> and
<varname>BlockIOAccounting=1</varname> settings in the
- unit files in question (See
+ unit files in question. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- for details).</para>
+ for details.</para>
<para>To emphasize this: unless
<literal>CPUAccounting=1</literal>,
<literal>MemoryAccounting=1</literal> and
<literal>BlockIOAccounting=1</literal> are enabled for
- the services in question no resource accounting will
+ the services in question, no resource accounting will
be available for system services and the data shown by
<command>systemd-cgtop</command> will be
incomplete.</para>
diff --git a/man/systemd-cryptsetup-generator.xml b/man/systemd-cryptsetup-generator.xml
index d6b7e49f13..3abb39d550 100644
--- a/man/systemd-cryptsetup-generator.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-cryptsetup-generator.xml
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@
<term><varname>luks.uuid=</varname></term>
<term><varname>rd.luks.uuid=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Takes a LUKS super
- block UUID as argument. This will
+ <listitem><para>Takes a LUKS superblock
+ UUID as argument. This will
activate the specified device as part
of the boot process as if it was
listed in
diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml
index e213ec4f3c..8c44071d53 100644
--- a/man/systemd.exec.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml
@@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@
<listitem><para>User name (twice), home
directory, and the login shell.
- Set for the units which
+ The variables are set for the units that
have <varname>User=</varname> set,
which includes user
<command>systemd</command> instances.
@@ -1053,14 +1053,14 @@
<term><varname>$XDG_VTNR</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The identifier of the
- session, and the seat name, and
+ session, the seat name, and
virtual terminal of the session. Set
by
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>pam_systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for login sessions.
<varname>$XDG_SEAT</varname> and
- <varname>$XDG_VTNR</varname> will be
- only set when attached to a seat and a
+ <varname>$XDG_VTNR</varname> will
+ only be set when attached to a seat and a
tty.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/systemd.resource-control.xml b/man/systemd.resource-control.xml
index 868890590d..fcfe861256 100644
--- a/man/systemd.resource-control.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.resource-control.xml
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<para>Unit configuration files for services, slices, scopes,
sockets, mount points, and swap devices share a subset of
configuration options for resource control of spawned
- processes. Internally, this relies on the the Control Groups
+ processes. Internally, this relies on the Control Groups
kernel concept for organizing processes in a hierarchial tree of
named groups for the purpose of resource management.</para>
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<para>See the <ulink
url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ControlGroupInterface/">New
- Control Group Interfaces</ulink> for an introduction how to make
+ Control Group Interfaces</ulink> for an introduction on how to make
use of resource control APIs from programs.</para>
</refsect1>
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
path and a weight value to specify the device specific
weight value, between 10 and 1000. (Example: "/dev/sda
500"). The file path may be specified as path to a block
- device node or as any other file in which case the backing
+ device node or as any other file, in which case the backing
block device of the file system of the file is
determined. This controls the
<literal>blkio.weight_device</literal> control group
diff --git a/man/systemd.scope.xml b/man/systemd.scope.xml
index 392abbf151..e047f4b7b4 100644
--- a/man/systemd.scope.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.scope.xml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<para>See the <ulink
url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ControlGroupInterface/">New
- Control Group Interfaces</ulink> for an introduction how to make
+ Control Group Interfaces</ulink> for an introduction on how to make
use of scope units from programs.</para>
<para>Unless <varname>DefaultDependencies=false</varname>
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index 5e1ddf7188..81a4078c71 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@
case it will be replaced by the value
of the environment variable split up
at whitespace, resulting in zero or
- more arguments. To pass literal dollar sign
+ more arguments. To pass a literal dollar sign,
use <literal>$$</literal>. Note that the first
argument (i.e. the program to execute)
may not be a variable, since it must
diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml
index 5c8b8e8868..baf44ad2eb 100644
--- a/man/systemd.unit.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml
@@ -1236,12 +1236,12 @@
<row>
<entry><literal>%r</literal></entry>
<entry>Root control group path where units are placed.</entry>
- <entry>For system instances this usually resolves to <filename>/system</filename>, except in containers, where the path might be prefixed with the container's root control group.</entry>
+ <entry>For system instances, this usually resolves to <filename>/system</filename>, except in containers, where the path might be prefixed with the container's root control group.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><literal>%R</literal></entry>
<entry>Parent directory of the control group path where units are placed.</entry>
- <entry>For system instances this usually
+ <entry>For system instances, this usually
resolves to <filename>/</filename>, except in
containers, where this resolves to the
container's root directory.</entry>
diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
index e8b630da24..1c079f64bc 100644
--- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
+++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
@@ -158,11 +158,11 @@ L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null</programlisting>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>m</varname></term>
<listitem><para>If the
- specified file path exists
+ specified file path exists,
adjust its access mode, group
and user to the specified
values and reset the SELinux
- label. If it doesn't exist do
+ label. If it does not exist, do
nothing.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null</programlisting>
during cleaning. Use this type
to exclude paths from clean-up
as controlled with the Age
- parameter. Unlike x this
+ parameter. Unlike x, this
parameter will not exclude the
content if path is a directory,
but only directory itself.
diff --git a/man/udevadm.xml b/man/udevadm.xml
index a1ffe4219c..30a6ac423a 100644
--- a/man/udevadm.xml
+++ b/man/udevadm.xml
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--query=<replaceable>type</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Query the database for specified type of device
+ <para>Query the database for the specified type of device
data. It needs the <option>--path</option> or
<option>--name</option> to identify the specified
device. Valid queries are: <constant>name</constant>,
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
<para>The <filename>/sys</filename> path of the device to
query, e.g.
<filename><optional>/sys</optional>/class/block/sda</filename>.
- Note that this option usually isn't very useful, since
+ Note that this option usually is not very useful, since
<command>udev</command> can guess the type of the
argument, so <command>udevadm
--devpath=/class/block/sda</command> is equivalent to
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>The name of the device node or a symlink to query,
e.g. <filename><optional>/dev</optional>/sda</filename>.
- Note that this option usually isn't very useful, since
+ Note that this option usually is not very useful, since
<command>udev</command> can guess the type of the
argument, so <command>udevadm --name=sda</command> is
equivalent to <command>udevadm /dev/sda</command>.</para>
@@ -481,10 +481,10 @@
<listitem>
<para>Specify when udevadm should resolve names of users
and groups. When set to <constant>early</constant> (the
- default) names will be resolved when the rules are
- parsed. When set to <constant>late</constant> names will
+ default), names will be resolved when the rules are
+ parsed. When set to <constant>late</constant>, names will
be resolved for every event. When set to
- <constant>never</constant> names will never be resolved
+ <constant>never</constant>, names will never be resolved
and all devices will be owned by root.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>