From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jun 26 14:20:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4614E37B7B4 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:20:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id OAA13660; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:20:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from dannyboy.eyep.net (adsl-207-68-84-132.bellatlantic.net [207.68.84.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 942EC37B7B4 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:12:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyboy@dannyboy.eyep.net) Received: (from dannyboy@localhost) by dannyboy.eyep.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA02804; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:49:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dannyboy) Message-Id: <200006262049.QAA02804@dannyboy.eyep.net> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:49:26 -0400 (EDT) From: dannyboy@subdimension.com Reply-To: dannyboy@subdimension.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 Subject: docs/19534: Nits in new-users Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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: >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—exit, not EXIT. - To shut down the machine type: + To shut down the machine type &prompt.root; /sbin/shutdown -h now @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ You can also reboot with CtrlAltDelete. Give it a little time to do its work. This is equivalent to - /sbin/reboot in recent releases of FreeBSD, + /sbin/reboot 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? @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Lists hidden dot files with the others. - If you're root, thedot files show up + If you're root, the dot files show up without the switch. @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ Lets you look at a file (named - filename without changing it. + filename) without changing it. Try view /etc/fstab. :q to quit. @@ -374,16 +374,16 @@ time to finish before you start the next one, for now. - &prompt.root; /etc/daily + &prompt.root; periodic daily output omitted -&prompt.root; /etc/weekly +&prompt.root; periodic weekly output omitted -&prompt.root; /etc/monthly +&prompt.root; periodic monthly output omitted - If you get tired waiting, press + If you get tired of waiting, press AltF2 to get another virtual console, and log in again. After all, it's a multi-user, multi-tasking system. @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ /var/mail/root and /var/log/messages. - Basically running such commands is part of system + 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 @@ If you originally got Netscape as a port using the CDROM (or ftp), don't replace /usr/local/bin/netscape 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 netscape.bin and replace the old binary, which is - /usr/local/lib/netscape/netscape.bin. + /usr/local/netscape/netscape. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message