Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:49:26 -0400 (EDT) From: dannyboy@subdimension.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/19534: Nits in new-users Message-ID: <200006262049.QAA02804@dannyboy.eyep.net>
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>Number: 19534
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Nits in new-users
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jun 26 14:20:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Daniel Harris
>Release: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Missing spaces, closed a parens set, other small nits.
>How-To-Repeat:
<Coe/input/activities to reproduce the problem (multiple lines)>
>Fix:
--- /usr/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/new-users/article.sgml Tue Oct 12 08:41:51 1999
+++ article.sgml Mon Jun 26 16:25:08 2000
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
case-sensitive—<command>exit</command>, not
<command>EXIT</command>.</para>
- <para>To shut down the machine type:</para>
+ <para>To shut down the machine type</para>
<informalexample>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/sbin/shutdown -h now</userinput>
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
<para>You can also reboot with
<keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>Alt</keycap><keycap>Delete</keycap></keycombo>.
Give it a little time to do its work. This is equivalent to
- <command>/sbin/reboot</command> in recent releases of FreeBSD,
+ <command>/sbin/reboot</command> in recent releases of FreeBSD
and is much, much better than hitting the reset button. You
don't want to have to reinstall this thing, do you?</para>
</sect1>
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>Lists hidden <quote>dot</quote> files with the others.
- If you're root, the<quote>dot</quote> files show up
+ If you're root, the <quote>dot</quote> files show up
without the <option>-a</option> switch.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>Lets you look at a file (named
- <replaceable>filename</replaceable> without changing it.
+ <replaceable>filename</replaceable>) without changing it.
Try <command>view
<parameter>/etc/fstab</parameter></command>.
<command>:q</command> to quit.</para>
@@ -374,16 +374,16 @@
time to finish before you start the next one, for now.</para>
<informalexample>
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/etc/daily</userinput>
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>periodic daily</userinput>
<lineannotation>output omitted</lineannotation>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>/etc/weekly</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>periodic weekly</userinput>
<lineannotation>output omitted</lineannotation>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>/etc/monthly</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>periodic monthly</userinput>
<lineannotation>output omitted</lineannotation>
</screen>
</informalexample>
- <para>If you get tired waiting, press
+ <para>If you get tired of waiting, press
<keycombo><keycap>Alt</keycap><keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo> to
get another <firstterm>virtual console</firstterm>, and log in
again. After all, it's a multi-user, multi-tasking system.
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@
<filename>/var/mail/root</filename> and
<filename>/var/log/messages</filename>.</para>
- <para>Basically running such commands is part of system
+ <para>Running such commands is part of system
administration—and as a single user of a Unix system,
you're your own system administrator. Virtually everything you
need to be root to do is system administration. Such
@@ -912,10 +912,10 @@
<para>If you originally got Netscape as a port using the CDROM (or
ftp), don't replace <filename>/usr/local/bin/netscape</filename>
with the new netscape binary; this is just a shell script that
- sets up the environmental variables for you. Instead rename the
+ sets up the environment variables for you. Instead, rename the
new binary to <filename>netscape.bin</filename> and replace the
old binary, which is
- <filename>/usr/local/lib/netscape/netscape.bin</filename>.</para>
+ <filename>/usr/local/netscape/netscape</filename>.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1>
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