From e9dd9f9547350c7dc0473583b5c2228dc8f0ab76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jason St. John" Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:51:44 +0200 Subject: 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'.] --- man/hostnamectl.xml | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) (limited to 'man/hostnamectl.xml') 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. - This tool distinguishes three different host - names: the high-level "pretty" hostname which might - include all kinds of special characters + 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. - The static host name is stored in + The static hostname is stored in /etc/hostname, see hostname5 - for more information. The pretty host name, chassis + for more information. The pretty hostname, chassis type and icon name are stored in /etc/machine-info, see machine-id5. @@ -143,8 +143,8 @@ If set-hostname 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. @@ -164,34 +164,34 @@ set-hostname [NAME] 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 , , - are used + 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"). + 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"). + @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ Naming Specification. 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. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf