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 <sect4><title>cleanfs</title>
 <para>The cleanfs script removes files that shouldn't be preserved between
 reboots, such as /var/run/*, /var/lock/*, it re-creates /var/run/utmp and
 removes the possible present /etc/nologin, /fastboot and /forcefsck
+reboots, such as /var/run/* and /var/lock/*. It re-creates /var/run/utmp and
+removes the possibly present /etc/nologin, /fastboot and /forcefsck
 files.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>functions</title>
 <para>The functions script contains shared functions among different
+<para>The functions script contains functions shared among different
 scripts such as error checking, status checking, etc.</para></sect4>
 …
 <sect4><title>loadkeys</title>
 <para>The loadkeys script loads the proper keymap table that matches your
 keyboard layout.</para></sect4>
+<para>The loadkeys script loads the keymap table you specified as proper for
+your keyboard layout.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>localnet</title>
 …
 <sect4><title>network</title>
 <para>The network script sets up network interfaces (such as network cards)
+<para>The network script sets up network interfaces, such as network cards,
 and sets up the default gateway where applicable.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>rc</title>
 <para>The rc script is the master runlevel control script which is
+<para>The rc script is the master runlevel control script. It is
 responsible for running all the other scripts one-by-one in a specific
 sequence.</para></sect4>
 …
 <sect4><title>sysklogd</title>
 <para>The sysklogd script start and stops the system and kernel log
+<para>The sysklogd script starts and stops the system and kernel log
 daemons.</para></sect4>

appendixa/make-desc.xml

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 <sect4><title>make</title>
 <para>make determines automatically which pieces of a large program need to be
 recompiled, and issues the commands to recompile them.</para></sect4>
+<para>make determines, automatically, which pieces of a large program need to be
+recompiled and issues the commands to recompile them.</para></sect4>
 </sect3>

appendixa/netkitbase-desc.xml

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10	10	<sect4><title>inetd</title>
11		<para>inetd is the mother of all daemons. It listens for connections, and
	11	<para>inetd is the mother of all daemons. It listens for connections and
12	12	transfers the call to the appropriate daemon.</para></sect4>
13	13

appendixa/patch-desc.xml

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 <sect4><title>patch</title>
 <para>The patch program modifies a file according to a patch file. A patch
 file usually is a list created by the diff program that contains
+file usually is a list, created by the diff program, that contains
 instructions on how an original file needs to be modified. Patch is used
 a lot for source code patches since it saves time and space. Imagine
 a package that is 1 MB in size. The next version of that package
 only has changes in two files of the first version. It can be shipped as an
 entirely new package of 1 MB or just as a patch file of 1 KB which will
+entirely new package of 1 MB or just as a patch file of 1 KB, which will
 update the first version to make it identical to the second version. So
 if the first version was downloaded already, a patch file avoids

appendixa/procps-desc.xml

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 <sect4><title>tload</title>
 <para>tload prints a graph of the current system load average to the
 specified tty (or the tty of the tload process if
 none is specified).</para></sect4>
+specified tty or, if none is specified, the tty of the tload
+process.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>top</title>
 …
 <sect4><title>vmstat</title>
 <para>vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO,
 traps, and cpu activity.</para></sect4>
+traps and cpu activity.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>w</title>
 <para>w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and
 their processes.</para></sect4>
+<para>w displays information about the users, and their processes,
+currently on the machine.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>watch</title>

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 <sect4><title>dpasswd</title>
 <para>dpasswd adds, deletes, and updates dial-up passwords for
+<para>dpasswd adds, deletes and updates dial-up passwords for
 user login shells.</para></sect4>
 …
 <sect4><title>faillog</title>
 <para>faillog formats the contents of the failure log,/var/log/faillog, and
+<para>faillog formats the contents of the failure log, /var/log/faillog, and
 maintains failure counts and limits.</para></sect4>
 …
 <sect4><title>lastlog</title>
 <para>lastlog formats and prints the contents of the last login log,
 /var/log/lastlog. The login-name, port, and last login time will be
+/var/log/lastlog. The login-name, port and last login time will be
 printed.</para></sect4>
 …
 <sect4><title>useradd</title>
 <para>useradd creates a new user or update default new user
+<para>useradd creates a new user or updates default new user
 information.</para></sect4>

appendixa/sysklogd-desc.xml

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 <sect4><title>syslogd</title>
 <para>syslogd provides the kind of logging that many modern programs use. Every
 logged message contains at least a time and a hostname field, normally a
 program name field, too, but that depends on how trusty the logging
+logged message contains at least a time and a hostname field and, normally, a
+program name field, too. But that depends on how trusty the logging
 program is.</para></sect4>

appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml

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 <sect4><title>halt</title>
 <para>halt notes that the system is being brought down in the file
 /var/log/wtmp, and then either tells the kernel to halt, reboot or
+<para>halt notes, in the file /var/log/wtmp, that the system is being
+brought down and then tells the kernel to either halt, reboot or
 poweroff the system. If halt or reboot is called when the system is not
 in runlevel 0 or 6, shutdown will be invoked instead (with
 …
 <para>init is the parent of all processes. Its primary role is to create
 processes from a script stored in the file /etc/inittab. This
 file usually has entries which cause init to spawn gettys on each line that
 users can log in. It also controls autonomous processes required by any
+file usually has entries which cause init to spawn gettys on each line from
+which users can log in. It also controls autonomous processes required by any
 particular system.</para></sect4>
 …
 <sect4><title>runlevel</title>
 <para>runlevel reads the system utmp file (typically /var/run/utmp) to locate
 the runlevel record, and then prints the previous and current system
+<para>runlevel reads the system utmp file (usually /var/run/utmp), locates
+the runlevel record and prints the previous and current system
 runlevel on its standard output, separated by a single space.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>shutdown</title>
 <para>shutdown brings the system down in a secure way. All logged-in users are
 notified that the system is going down, and login is blocked.</para></sect4>
+notified that the system is going down and login is blocked.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>sulogin</title>
 …
 <sect4><title>telinit</title>
 <para>telinit sends appropriate signals to init, telling it which runlevel to
 change to.</para></sect4>
+enter.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>utmpdump</title>
 …
 <sect4><title>wall</title>
 <para>wall sends a message to everybody logged in with their mesg permission
+<para>wall sends a message to logged in users that have their mesg permission
 set to yes.</para></sect4>

appendixa/tar-desc.xml

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 <sect4><title>rmt</title>
 <para>rmt is a program used by the remote dump and restore programs in
 manipulating a magnetic tape drive through an interprocess communication
+<para>rmt is a program used by the remote dump and restore programs to
+manipulate a magnetic tape drive through an interprocess communication
 connection.</para></sect4>

appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml

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 <sect4><title>elvtune</title>
 <para>elvtune allows to tune the I/O elevator per block device queue
+<para>elvtune lets you tune the I/O elevator per block device queue
 basis.</para></sect4>
 …
 <sect4><title>hwclock</title>
 <para>hwclock queries and sets the hardware clock (Also called the RTC or BIOS
+<para>hwclock queries and sets the hardware clock (also called the RTC or BIOS
 clock).</para></sect4>
 …
 <sect4><title>isosize</title>
 <para>isosize outputs the length of a iso9660 file system.</para></sect4>
+<para>isosize outputs the length of an iso9660 file system.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>line</title>
 …
 <sect4><title>mkfs.bfs</title>
 <para>mkfs.bfs creates a SCO bfs file system on a device, usually a harddisk
+<para>mkfs.bfs creates an SCO bfs file system on a device, usually a harddisk
 partition.</para></sect4>
 …
 <sect4><title>mount</title>
 <para>mount mounts a filesystem from a device to a directory (mount
 point).</para></sect4>
+<para>mount mounts, from many possible sources, filesystems or directories
+on a directory (mount point).</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>namei</title>
 …
 <sect4><title>rdev</title>
 <para>rdev queries and sets image root device, swap device, RAM disk size, or
+<para>rdev queries and sets image root device, swap device, RAM disk size or
 video mode.</para></sect4>
 …
 <sect4><title>script</title>
 <para>script makes typescript of terminal session.</para></sect4>
+<para>script makes a typescript of terminal session.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>setfdprm</title>
 <para>setfdprm sets user-provides floppy disk parameters.</para></sect4>
+<para>setfdprm sets user-provided floppy disk parameters.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>setsid</title>
 …
 <sect4><title>umount</title>
 <para>umount unmounts a mounted filesystem.</para></sect4>
+<para>umount unmounts a mounted filesystem or directory.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>vidmode</title>
 …
 <sect4><title>write</title>
+<para>write sends a message to another user.</para></sect4>
+<para>write sends a message to another user, if that user has writing
+enabled (usually by using mesg).</para></sect4>
 </sect3>

chapter01/changelog.xml

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 <para>&version; - &releasedate;</para>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>October 6th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Applied Bill
+Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
 <para>4.0 - October 5th, 2002</para>

chapter06/config-glibc.xml

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3	3	<para>We need to create the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. Although glibc should
4	4	provide defaults when this file is missing or corrupt, its defaults don't work
5		well with networking ~~which will be~~ dealt with in a later chapter. Also, our
	5	well with networking. That is dealt with in a later chapter. Also, our
6	6	timezone needs to be set up.</para>
7	7

chapter06/config-keyboard.xml

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19	19	the keymap directly into the kernel. This will make sure that your
20	20	keyboard always works as expected, even when you have booted into
21		maintenance mode (by passing `init=/bin/sh' to the kernel) in which case
	21	maintenance mode (by passing `init=/bin/sh' to the kernel), in which case
22	22	the bootscript that normally sets up your keymap isn't run.</para>
23	23

chapter06/config-ldso.xml

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9	9	directories other than <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
10	10	<filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>, you need to add them to
11		the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file ~~in order~~ for the dynamic
	11	the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file for the dynamic
12	12	loader to find them. Two directories that are commonly known to contain
13	13	additional libraries are <filename

chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml

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1	1	<sect2><title>Configuring Shadow Password Suite</title>
2	2
3		<para>This package contains utilities to modify users's passwords, add
	3	<para>This package contains utilities to modify users' passwords, add
4	4	or delete users and groups, and the like. We're not going to explain
5	5	what 'password shadowing' means. A full explanation can be found in the doc/HOWTO

chapter06/config-vim.xml

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1	1	<sect2><title>Configuring Vim</title>
2	2
3		<para>By default vim runs in vi compatible mode. Some people might like this,
	3	<para>By default, vim runs in vi compatible mode. Some people might like this,
4	4	but we have a high preference to run vim in vim mode (else we wouldn't
5	5	have included vim in this book, but the original vi). Create the

chapter06/create-utmp.xml

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 <para>Programs like login, shutdown, uptime and others want to read from and
 write to the /var/run/utmp /var/log/btmp and /var/log/wtmp. These files contain
 information about who is currently logged in. It also contains information
+write to the /var/run/utmp, /var/log/btmp and /var/log/wtmp. These files contain
+information about who is currently logged in. They also contain information
 on when the computer was last booted and shutdown and a record of the
 bad login attempts.</para>

chapter06/procps-exp.xml

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 This will set the Makefile variable XSCPT to an empty value so that
 the XConsole installation is disabled. Otherwise "Make install" tries to
 copy the file XConsole to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. And that directory
 does not exist, because X is not installed.</para>
+copy the file XConsole to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. That directory
+does not exist because X is not installed.</para>
 </sect2>

chapter06/psmisc-inst.xml

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 <para>Psmisc installs the
 <filename>/usr/share/man/man1/pidof.1</filename> man page, but Psmisc's
 pidof program isn't installed by default. Generally this isn't a problem,
 because we install the Sysvinit package later on which provides
+pidof program isn't installed by default. Generally, this isn't a problem
+because we later install the Sysvinit package, which provides
 a better pidof program.</para>
 <para>It's up to you now to decide if you are going to use the Sysvinit
 package which provides a pidof program, or not. If you are going to, you
+package, which provides a pidof program, or not. If you are going to, you
 should remove Psmisc's pidof man page by running:</para>

chapter06/shadowpwd-exp.xml

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 <para><userinput>cp limits login.access /etc:</userinput> These files
 were not installed during the installation of the package so we copy
 them manually as those files are used to configure authentication
+were not installed during the installation of the package, so we copy
+them manually because those files are used to configure authentication
 details on the system.</para>

chapter06/shadowpwd-inst.xml

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4	4	<para>Before you install this package, you may want to have a look at
5	5	the Shadow hint. It discusses how you can make your system more secure
6		regarding passwords, such as how to enable the more secure MD5 passwords,
	6	regarding passwords, such as how to enable the more secure MD5 passwords
7	7	and how to get the most out of this Shadow package. The Shadow hint can
8	8	be found at <ulink url="&hints-root;shadowpasswd_plus.txt"/>.</para>

chapter06/sysvinit-inst.xml

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2	2	<title>Installation of Sysvinit</title>
3	3
4		<para>When run levels are changed (for example, when halting the system)
	4	<para>When run levels are changed (for example, when halting the system),
5	5	init sends the TERM and KILL signals to the processes which it started.
6	6	init prints "Sending processes the TERM signal" to the screen. This seems

chapter06/tar-inst.xml

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 use the tar
 patch available from the LFS FTP site. This patch will add the -j option
+to tar which works the same as the -z option to tar (which can be used
+for gzip files).</para>
+to tar, which works the same as the -z option used for gzip files.</para>
 <para>Apply the patch by running the following command:</para>

chapter06/utillinux-inst.xml

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 <title>FHS compliance notes</title>
 <para>The FHS recommends that we use /var/lib/hwclock as the location of the
+adjtime file, instead of the usual /etc. To make hwclock, which is part of the
 util-linux package, FHS-compliant, run the following.</para>
+<para>The FHS recommends that we use /var/lib/hwclock, instead of the
+usual /etc, as the location of the adjtime file. To make hwclock, which
+is part of the util-linux package, FHS-compliant, run the following.</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>cp hwclock/hwclock.c{,.backup} &amp;&amp;

index.xml

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 <!ENTITY book SYSTEM "book/book.xml">
 <!ENTITY version "20021005">
 <!ENTITY releasedate "October 5th, 2002">
+<!ENTITY version "20021006">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "October 6th, 2002">
 <!ENTITY ftp-root "ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org">

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