Changeset 853ae568

Timestamp:

07/22/2005 10:59:56 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Randy McMurchy <randy@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

349b53dd

Parents:

615b431

Message:

Minor textual changes to the '/etc/shells', 'compressdoc' and 'Random Number Generation' sections of Chapter 3

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@4763 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Location:

postlfs/config

Files:

• compressdoc.xml (modified) (3 diffs)
• etcshells.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• random.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

postlfs/config/compressdoc.xml

@@ -20 +20 @@
   </indexterm>
 
-  <para>Man and info reader programs can transparently process gzip'ed or
-  bzip2'ed pages, a feature you can use to free some disk space while keeping
+  <para>Man and info reader programs can transparently process files compressed
+  with <command>gzip</command> or <command>bzip2</command>, a feature you can
+  use to free some disk space while keeping
   your documentation available. However, things are not that simple; man
   directories tend to contain links&mdash;hard and symbolic&mdash;which defeat
@@ -497 +498 @@
 chmod 755 /usr/sbin/compressdoc</userinput></screen>
 
-  <para>Now, as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>, you can issue a
-  <command>compressdoc --bz2</command> to compress all your system man
+  <para>Now, as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>, you can issue
+  the command <command>compressdoc --bz2</command> to compress all your system man
   pages. You can also run <command>compressdoc --help</command> to get
   comprehensive help about what the script is able to do.</para>
 
   <para> Don't forget that a few programs, like the <application>X Window
-  System</application>  and <application>XEmacs</application> also
-  install their documentation in non standard places (such as
-  <filename class="directory">/usr/X11R6/man</filename>, etc...). Be sure
-  to add these locations to the file <filename>/etc/man.conf</filename>, as a
-  <envar>MANPATH</envar>=<replaceable>[/path]</replaceable> section.</para>
+  System</application> and <application>XEmacs</application> also
+  install their documentation in non-standard places (such as
+  <filename class="directory">/usr/X11R6/man</filename>, etc.). Be sure
+  to add these locations to the file <filename>/etc/man.conf</filename>, as
+  <envar>MANPATH</envar> <replaceable>[/path]</replaceable> lines.</para>
 
   <para> Example:</para>
 
 <screen><literal>    ...
-    MANPATH=/usr/share/man
-    MANPATH=/usr/local/man
-    MANPATH=/usr/X11R6/man
-    MANPATH=/opt/qt/doc/man
+    MANPATH /usr/share/man
+    MANPATH /usr/local/man
+    MANPATH /usr/X11R6/man
+    MANPATH /opt/qt/doc/man
     ...</literal></screen>
 
@@ -523 +524 @@
   after upgrading a package is safe; when you have several versions of a page
   (for example, one compressed and one uncompressed), the most recent one is kept
-  and the others deleted.</para>
+  and the others are deleted.</para>
 
 </sect1>
-

postlfs/config/etcshells.xml

@@ -23 +23 @@
   login shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine
   whether a shell is valid. For each shell a single line should be
-  present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.</para>
+  present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to the root of the
+  directory structure (/).</para>
 
   <para>For example, this file is consulted by <command>chsh</command>
@@ -32 +33 @@
   <para>It is a requirement for applications such as
   <application>GDM</application> which does not populate the
-  face browser if it can't find <filename>/etc/shells</filename> or
+  face browser if it can't find <filename>/etc/shells</filename>, or
   FTP daemons which traditionally disallow access to users
   with shells not included in this file.</para>

postlfs/config/random.xml

@@ -27 +27 @@
 
   <para>When a Linux system starts up without much operator interaction, the
-  entropy pool, data used to compute a random number, may be in a fairly
+  entropy pool (data used to compute a random number) may be in a fairly
   predictable state.  This creates the real possibility that the number generated
   at startup may always be the same.  In order to counteract this effect,
@@ -39 +39 @@
 
 </sect1>
-