Changeset 19c068f

Timestamp:

06/03/2002 11:27:43 AM (22 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 12.2, 12.2-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v4_0, v4_1, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/loongarch-12.2, xry111/mips64el, xry111/multilib, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

8a3b9df

Parents:

a2cd10f

Message:

applied Alex's small-edits.patch

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1961 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• chapter06/lilo-inst.xml (modified) (3 diffs)
• preface/foreword.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml

@@ -15 +15 @@
 
 <sect4><title>chfn</title>
-<para>chfn changes user full name, office number, office extension, and home 
-phone number information for a user's account.</para></sect4>
+<para>chfn changes a user's full name and other information
+(office room number, office phone number, and
+home phone number).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>chpasswd</title>
@@ -94 +95 @@
 
 <sect4><title>pwck</title>
-<para>pwck verifies the integrity of the system authentication 
-information.</para></sect4>
+<para>pwck verifies the integrity of the password files.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pwconv</title>
-<para>pwconv converts to shadow passwd files from normal passwd 
-files.</para></sect4>
+<para>pwconv converts the normal password file
+to a shadowed password file.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pwunconv</title>
-<para>pwunconv converts from shadow passwd files to normal files.</para></sect4>
+<para>pwunconv converts a shadowed password file
+to a normal password file.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>sg</title>
-<para>sg executes command as a different group ID.</para></sect4>
+<para>sg sets the user's GID to that of the given group, or executes a
+given command as member of the given group.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>su</title>

chapter06/lilo-inst.xml

@@ -2 +2 @@
 <title>Installation of Lilo</title>
 
-<para>We have chosen Lilo because we feel comfortable with it, but you 
-may wish to take a look elsewhere. Someone has written a hint on 
-GRUB at <ulink url="&hints-root;grub-howto.txt"/>, an alternative 
-boot loader.</para>
+<para>We have chosen Lilo as a boot loader because we feel comfortable with it, but you 
+may wish to choose another. Someone has written a hint on 
+GRUB at <ulink url="&hints-root;grub-howto.txt"/>.</para>
 
 <para>Install Lilo by running the following commands:</para>
@@ -13 +12 @@
 
 <para>It appears that compilation of this package fails on certain machines
-when the -g compiler flag is being used. If you can't compile Lilo at
+when the -g compiler flag is used. If you can't compile Lilo at
 all, you should try to remove the -g value from the CFLAGS variable in the
 <filename>Makefile</filename> file.</para>
@@ -19 +18 @@
 <para>At the end of the installation the make install process will print a
 message stating that /sbin/lilo has to be executed to complete the
-update. Don't do this as it has no use. The /etc/lilo.conf isn't present
+update. Don't do this, as it has no use: the /etc/lilo.conf isn't present
 yet. We will complete the installation of lilo in chapter 8.</para>
 
 <para>Maybe you'll be interested to know that someone wrote a hint on 
-how to get a logo instead the the standard LILO prompt or menu. Take 
+how to get a logo instead of the standard LILO prompt or menu. Take 
 a look at it at <ulink url="&hints-root;bootlogo.txt"/>.</para>
 

preface/foreword.xml

@@ -4 +4 @@
 
 <para>Having used a number of different Linux distributions, I was never
-fully satisfied with any of them. I didn't like the way the arrangement of
+fully satisfied with any of them. I didn't like the arrangement of
 the bootscripts. I didn't like the way certain programs were configured by
 default. Much more of that sort of thing bothered me. Finally I realized
@@ -19 +19 @@
 system, or LFS for short.</para>
 
-<para>I hope all of you will have a great time working on LFS!</para>
+<para>I hope you will have a great time working on your own LFS!</para>
 
 <literallayout>