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authordd <dd@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-21 19:39:01 +0000
committerdd <dd@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-21 19:39:01 +0000
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Do not use contractions where they aren't necessary, use "host"
instead of "computer", and clean up some confusing sentences. Submitted by: sheldonh
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-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/rc.conf.519
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
index f52f360..57bf10c 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
@@ -153,11 +153,11 @@ List of directories to search for startup script files.
The field separator to use for breaking down the list of startup script files
into individual filenames.
The default is a space.
-It isn't necessary to change this unless there are startup scripts with names
+It is not necessary to change this unless there are startup scripts with names
containing spaces.
.It Va hostname
.Pq Vt str
-The Fully Qualified Domain Name of this computer on the network.
+The Fully Qualified Domain Name of this host on the network.
This should almost certainly be set to something meaningful, even if
there is no network connection.
If
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ is used to set the hostname via DHCP,
this variable should be set to an empty string.
.It Va nisdomainname
.Pq Vt str
-The NIS domain name of this computer, or
+The NIS domain name of this host, or
.Dq NO
if NIS is not used.
.It Va dhcp_program
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ Setting this to
.Dq NO
might help remedy such problems with connections as randomly hanging
or other weird behavior.
-Some hardware/software out there is known
+Some network devices are known
to be broken with respect to these options.
.It Va log_in_vain
.Pq Vt bool
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ for troubleshooting networks.
Set to the list of network interfaces to configure on this host.
For example, if the only network devices in the system are the loopback
device
-.Pq lo0
+(lo0)
and a NIC using the ed0 driver,
this could be set to
.Dq "lo0 ed0"
@@ -559,10 +559,9 @@ An
.No ifconfig_ Ns Em interface
variable is also assumed to exist for each value of
.Em interface .
-It is also possible to add IP alias entries here in cases where it is
-desired for a
-single interface to have multiple IP addresses registered against
-it.
+It is also possible to add IP alias entires here in cases where
+multiple IP addresses registered against a single interface
+are desired.
Assuming that the interface in question was ed0, it might look
something like this:
.Bd -literal
@@ -1413,7 +1412,7 @@ the
daemon is started for doing cut/paste selection on the console.
.It Va moused_type
.Pq Vt str
-This is the protocol type of mouse connected to this computer.
+This is the protocol type of the mouse connected to this host.
This variable must be set if
.Va moused_enable
is set to
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