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Date:      Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:41:45 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r223991 - head/sbin/shutdown
Message-ID:  <201107140241.p6E2fj91009767@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: gjb (doc committer)
Date: Thu Jul 14 02:41:45 2011
New Revision: 223991
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/223991

Log:
  Improvements to the shutdown(8) manual.
  
  PR:		158807
  Submitted by:	arundel
  MFC after:	1 week

Modified:
  head/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8

Modified: head/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8
==============================================================================
--- head/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8	Thu Jul 14 00:15:26 2011	(r223990)
+++ head/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8	Thu Jul 14 02:41:45 2011	(r223991)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)shutdown.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/27/95
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd December 30, 2010
+.Dd July 13, 2011
 .Dt SHUTDOWN 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -83,20 +83,20 @@ If one of the
 .Fl p
 or
 .Fl r
-is specified,
+options are specified,
 .Nm
 will execute
 .Xr halt 8
 or
 .Xr reboot 8
-instead of sending signal to
+instead of sending a signal to
 .Xr init 8 .
 .It Fl n
 If the
 .Fl o
-is specified, prevent the file system cache from being flushed by passing
+option is specified, prevent the file system cache from being flushed by passing
 .Fl n
-option to
+to
 .Xr halt 8
 or
 .Xr reboot 8 .
@@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ This option should probably not be used.
 is the time at which
 .Nm
 will bring the system down and
-may be the word
+may be the case-insensitive word
 .Ar now
 (indicating an immediate shutdown) or
-specify a future time in one of two formats:
+a future time in one of two formats:
 .Ar +number ,
 or
 .Ar yymmddhhmm ,
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ exits.
 .Pp
 At shutdown time a message is written to the system log, containing the
 time of shutdown, the person who initiated the shutdown and the reason.
-Corresponding signal is then sent to
+The corresponding signal is then sent to
 .Xr init 8
 to respectively halt, reboot or bring the system down to single-user state
 (depending on the above options).
@@ -176,16 +176,18 @@ utility will place the system into singl
 .Ar time
 specified.
 .Pp
-Calling utility as
-.Nm poweroff
-is equivalent of calling:
+Calling
+.Dq Nm poweroff
+is equivalent to running:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 shutdown -p now
 .Ed
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width /var/run/nologin -compact
 .It Pa /var/run/nologin
-tells login not to let anyone log in
+tells
+.Xr login 1
+not to let anyone log in
 .El
 .Sh COMPATIBILITY
 The hours and minutes in the second time format may be separated by



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