From 5aeaee9fa9c5f5b204c922f8646eee5641050703 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dd Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:39:01 +0000 Subject: Do not use contractions where they aren't necessary, use "host" instead of "computer", and clean up some confusing sentences. Submitted by: sheldonh --- share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 | 19 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'share') 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 -- cgit v1.1