Changeset 8c9e2f6e

Timestamp:

07/06/2009 07:12:40 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Guy Dalziel <gdalziel@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 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:

80a55003

Parents:

ac5d8cf

Message:

fixed typos on several pages

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@7831 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• basicnet/connect/connect.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• basicnet/connect/ppp.xml (modified) (7 diffs)
• basicnet/mailnews/mailx.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• basicnet/mailnews/procmail.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• basicnet/netprogs/subversion.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• general/genutils/graphviz.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• general/graphlib/lcms.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• general/prog/guile.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• general/prog/other-tools.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• postlfs/security/gnupg2.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• postlfs/security/mitkrb.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• postlfs/security/openssl.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• postlfs/security/shadow.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• pst/printing/lprng.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• server/major/openssh.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• server/other/openldap.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• x/installing/x-setup.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• xsoft/office/abiword.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• xsoft/office/evolution.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml (modified) (1 diff)

basicnet/connect/connect.xml

@@ -27 +27 @@
 
   <para>PPP stands for Point-to-Point Protocol. It is data link protocol
-  commonly used for establishing an authenticated IP connections over
+  commonly used for establishing authenticated IP connections over
   a phone line with a modem, or over radio waves with a cellular phone. There
   is also a variant (PPPoE) that works over Ethernet and is used by cable

basicnet/connect/ppp.xml

@@ -136 +136 @@
 
     <para><parameter>CBCP=y</parameter>: Add this argument to the
-    <command>make</command> command to compile in support for
+    <command>make</command> command to compile in support for the
     Microsoft proprietary Callback Control Protocol.</para>
 
@@ -166 +166 @@
       or <application>KPPP</application> from
       <xref linkend="kdenetwork"/>. The text below explains how to set up
-      dialup and GPRS and PPPoE connections using only tools provided with
+      dialup, GPRS and PPPoE connections using only tools provided with
       the <application>PPP</application> package. All configuration steps
-      in this section are executed as
+      in this section are executed as the
       <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user.</para>
 
@@ -217 +217 @@
       <para>If you use a caching DNS server such as <xref linkend="bind"/>
       or <ulink url="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~rombouts/pdnsd.html">Pdnsd</ulink>,
-      the script above is wrong for you. In such case, write your
+      the script above is wrong for you. In such a case, write your
       own script that tells your caching nameserver to forward queries to
       upstream DNS servers specified in the $DNS1 and $DNS2 environment
@@ -287 +287 @@
       it receives an indication of an error from the modem. Then the timeout
       is set to 5 seconds and the script checks that the modem responds to
-      the dummy AT command at all. If not, measures are taken to dewedge it
+      the dummy AT command. If not, measures are taken to dewedge it
       (by interrupting the data transfer and going on hook). Then the
       telephone number is dialed, and the script waits for the answer for
@@ -303 +303 @@
 
       <para>GPRS and EDGE connections are established with the help of a
-      cellular phone connected to a computer via serial or USB cable, or
-      using Bluetooth.
+      cellular phone connected to a computer via serial, USB, or Bluetooth.
       The phone exchanges data packets with the nearest base station,
       which can be up to 35 kilometers away.
@@ -356 +355 @@
 # Note: you must manually send some vendor-specific AT commands
 # to certain old cellular phones (such as Sony-Ericsson T200)
-# in order to achieve connection speed more than 9600 bits ber second.
+# in order to achieve connection speed more than 9600 bits per second.
 <replaceable>/dev/ttyS1</replaceable>
 <replaceable>115200</replaceable>
@@ -422 +421 @@
       <para>In order to establish a PPP connection described by the
       <filename>/etc/ppp/peers/<replaceable>peername</replaceable></filename>
-      file, run, as root or as a member of the
-      <systemitem class="groupname">pppusers</systemitem> group:</para>
+      file run (as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> or as a member 
+      of the <systemitem class="groupname">pppusers</systemitem> group):</para>
 <screen><userinput>pon <replaceable>peername</replaceable></userinput></screen>
 

basicnet/mailnews/mailx.xml

@@ -33 +33 @@
     known as the <application>Nail</application> package) contains
     <command>mailx</command>, a command-line Mail User Agent derived from
-    Berkeley Mail which is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX
+    Berkeley Mail. It is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX
     <command>mailx</command> command with additional support for MIME messages,
     IMAP (including caching), POP3, SMTP, S/MIME, message threading/sorting,

basicnet/mailnews/procmail.xml

@@ -107 +107 @@
       <title>Configuration Information</title>
 
-      <para>Recipes have to be written and placed in your
+      <para>Recipes have to be written and placed in 
       <filename>~/.procmailrc</filename> for execution. The procmailex man
       page is the starting place to learn how to write recipes.

basicnet/netprogs/subversion.xml

@@ -265 +265 @@
     <para><command>sed -i '...' .../Makefile.PL.in</command>: This command
     is used to fix a problem with compiling the <application>Perl</application>
-    bindings. It can be ommitted if you're not building the bindings.</para>
+    bindings. It can be omitted if you're not building the bindings.</para>
 
     <para><option>--with-neon=<replaceable>&lt;prefix&gt;</replaceable></option>:

general/genutils/graphviz.xml

@@ -503 +503 @@
           each a fixed radial distance from the previous circle.</para>
           <indexterm zone="graphviz twopi">
-            <primary sortas="b-twopi">twopk</primary>
+            <primary sortas="b-twopi">twopi</primary>
           </indexterm>
         </listitem>

general/graphlib/lcms.xml

@@ -9 +9 @@
   <!ENTITY lcms-md5sum        "07bdbb4cfb05d21caa58fe3d1c84ddc1">
   <!ENTITY lcms-size          "878 KB">
-  <!ENTITY lcms-buildsize     "21 MB (includes building and installign the SWIG bindings)">
+  <!ENTITY lcms-buildsize     "21 MB (includes building and installing the SWIG bindings)">
   <!ENTITY lcms-time          "0.5 SBU (includes building and installing the SWIG bindings)">
 ]>

general/prog/guile.xml

@@ -150 +150 @@
     <application>SLIB</application> initialization script. There are
     incompatibilities with newer versions of <application>SLIB</application>
-    and this command modifes the script to use the installed
+    and this command modifies the script to use the installed
     <application>SLIB</application> script.</para>
 

general/prog/other-tools.xml

@@ -616 +616 @@
       scoping, and eval-like functionality), hierarchical namespaces, a rich
       set of useful built-in types (dynamic arrays, dictionaries, symbols,
-      ...), extensibile with C (you can add functions, types, classes, methods,
+      ...), extensible with C (you can add functions, types, classes, methods,
       packages, ...), embeddable in C. <application>elastiC</application> has
       been strongly influenced by C, Smalltalk, Scheme and Python and tries to
@@ -1015 +1015 @@
       service programming. To support program development,
       <application>JWIG</application> provides a unique suite of highly
-      specialized program analyses that at compile time verify for a given
+      specialized program analysers that at compile time verify for a given
       program that no runtime errors can occur while building documents or
       receiving form input, and that all documents being shown are valid

postlfs/security/gnupg2.xml

@@ -286 +286 @@
         <term><command>gpgsm-gencert.sh</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>is a simple tool used to interactivly generate a certificate
+          <para>is a simple tool used to interactively generate a certificate
           request which will be printed to stdout.</para>
           <indexterm zone="gnupg2 gpgsm-gencert.sh">

postlfs/security/mitkrb.xml

@@ -288 +288 @@
 
         <para>You will need to substitute your domain and proper hostname
-        for the occurences of the <replaceable>&lt;belgarath&gt;</replaceable> and
+        for the occurrences of the <replaceable>&lt;belgarath&gt;</replaceable> and
         <replaceable>&lt;lfs.org&gt;</replaceable> names.</para>
 

postlfs/security/openssl.xml

@@ -177 +177 @@
     <para><command>cp -v -r certs /etc/ssl</command>: This installs both the
     sample certificates and documentation included with OpenSSL, and the
-    certificates that were extrated from the BLFS-ca-bundle-&ca-bundle-version;
+    certificates that were extracted from the BLFS-ca-bundle-&ca-bundle-version;
     package.</para>
 

postlfs/security/shadow.xml

@@ -179 +179 @@
 
     <para><application>Shadow</application>'s stock configuration for the
-    <command>useradd</command> utility may not be desireable for your
+    <command>useradd</command> utility may not be desirable for your
     installation. One default parameter causes <command>useradd</command> to
     create a mailbox file for any newly created user.

pst/printing/lprng.xml

@@ -245 +245 @@
         <term><command>lpd</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>is the print queueing daemon.</para>
+          <para>is the print queuing daemon.</para>
           <indexterm zone="LPRng lpd">
             <primary sortas="b-lpd">lpd</primary>

server/major/openssh.xml

@@ -127 +127 @@
     back up any existing copy first.</para>
 
-    <para>To run the test suite, issue the following commnds:</para>
+    <para>To run the test suite, issue the following commands:</para>
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>make tests 2&gt;&amp;1 | tee check.log

server/other/openldap.xml

@@ -174 +174 @@
     all available overlays.</para>
 
-    <para><parameter>--disable-sql</parameter>: This parameter explicity
+    <para><parameter>--disable-sql</parameter>: This parameter explicitly
     disables the sql backend.  Omit this switch if a SQL server is
     installed.</para>
@@ -502 +502 @@
         <term><command>slapindex</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>is used to regenerate slapd indices based upon the current
+          <para>is used to regenerate slapd indexes based upon the current
           contents of a database.</para>
           <indexterm zone="openldap slapindex">

x/installing/x-setup.xml

@@ -107 +107 @@
 
     <para>Recent versions of <application>xorg-server</application> force the
-    use of the evdev input driver, and ignore legacy input devices definded in
+    use of the evdev input driver, and ignore legacy input devices defined in
     <filename>xorg.conf</filename>.  This will result in an X display that
     seems to lock up if you are using legacy input devices and do not have the

xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml

@@ -248 +248 @@
 # of Firefox for your Mozilla support.
 # This has NOT been tested, current versions of OpenOffice are
-# assumed not to compile agaisnt this version of xulrunner!
+# assumed not to compile against this version of xulrunner!
 #
 ###################################################################

xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml

@@ -266 +266 @@
 
     <para>This package does not come with a test suite. However, it
-    can be launched fom the build directory before installing with the
+    can be launched from the build directory before installing with the
     command line:
     <userinput>../seamonkey-build/dist/bin/seamonkey</userinput>.</para>

xsoft/office/abiword.xml

@@ -263 +263 @@
       <para>If you have <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/> installed,
       you should run the <command>update-desktop-database</command> command
-      to update the mimeminfo cache and allow the Help system to work.</para>
+      to update the mimeinfo cache and allow the Help system to work.</para>
 
     </sect3>

xsoft/office/evolution.xml

@@ -215 +215 @@
 
     <para><option>--with-kde-applnk-path=<replaceable>&lt;$KDE_PREFIX/share/applnk&gt;</replaceable></option>:
-    Use this parameter if you wnat the installation process to create a
+    Use this parameter if you want the installation process to create a
     <filename class="extension">.desktop</filename> file in the KDE global
     desktop file directory.</para>

xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml

@@ -367 +367 @@
 
     <para><command>install .../{movemail,rss}.rdf</command>: These commands
-    are used to install two mail extensions inadvertantly left out of the
+    are used to install two mail extensions inadvertently left out of the
     installation script or installed to the wrong location.</para>