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authorJason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>2012-07-06 16:03:09 -0400
committerTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2012-07-12 02:11:59 +0200
commitc2f7b97924e2b5341cea667fbd1a2802e9cb8cd5 (patch)
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parentb2c9096cf0be6d655550ae880da8735ef048fc10 (diff)
downloadinitscripts-c2f7b97924e2b5341cea667fbd1a2802e9cb8cd5.tar.xz
Correct spelling and grammar throughout
This patch addresses the issues with my previous patch submission here: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2012-June/002990.html The notable changes between this patch and the previous one are below: -- this patch does not rename set_timezone() -- 'filesystems' and 'bash' are left as-is -- everything is in one patch, not two -- the 'makedepends' change is no longer relevant because the duplication of it was already removed in a later commit Regarding the capitalization of "Btrfs", it seems that upstream prefers "Btrfs".[1][2] Regarding 'https://' vs. 'http://', I left this change in the patch because stating 'https://www.archlinux.org' in the start-up messages doesn't force anyone to use HTTPS over HTTP. It simply shows that HTTPS is available for use. If someone really doesn't want to use HTTPS, they don't have to. Finally, Dan McGee stated that HTTPS will be used all the time soon.[3] [1] https://oss.oracle.com/projects/btrfs/ [2] https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30486#comment96222 Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
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diff --git a/rc.conf.5.txt b/rc.conf.5.txt
index 347aba7..debb789 100644
--- a/rc.conf.5.txt
+++ b/rc.conf.5.txt
@@ -16,21 +16,21 @@ DESCRIPTION
-----------
The /etc/rc.conf file is the system configuration file for Arch-specific
settings. The format is bash. It contains several commonly-edited settings such
-as timezone; keymap; kernel modules; daemons to load at start-up; etc. It is
+as time zone, keymap, kernel modules, daemons to load at start-up, etc. It is
split up in a few sections to categorize configuration settings: localization,
-hardware, networking and daemons.
+hardware, networking, and daemons.
LOCALIZATION[[L]]
-----------------
*TIMEZONE=*
-Specifies the timezone. The setting takes effect on boot by ensuring that /etc/localtime is a symlink
-to the correct zoneinfo file. Possible timezones are the relative path to a zoneinfo file starting
-from the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo. For example, a German timezone would be Europe/Berlin,
+Specifies the time zone. The setting takes effect on boot by ensuring that /etc/localtime is a symlink
+to the correct zoneinfo file. Possible time zones are the relative path to a zoneinfo file starting
+from the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo. For example, a German time zone would be Europe/Berlin,
which refers to the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin.
-Note: if empty, /etc/localtime is not changed. This is useful if /etc/localtime is maintained manually
-or by a third-party tool; or if there is no reason to change it from what was set during install.
+Note: If empty, /etc/localtime is not changed. This is useful if /etc/localtime is maintained manually
+or by a third-party tool, or if there is no reason to change it from what was set during install.
Default: empty
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ Options:
- empty: fall back to the value in /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime, which defaults to UTC. This is recommended
as other users of hwclock might change the adjtime file and hence cause rc.conf and adjtime to be out of sync.
- "UTC": most robust, allows operating systems to abstract local time and ease DST.
- - "localtime": apply timezone (and DST) in hardwareclock: discouraged.
- Choose this if you dualboot with an OS which cannot handle UTC BIOS times correctly, like Windows (note
- that recent Windows'es can use UTC, which is preferable).
+ - "localtime": apply time zone (and DST) in hardwareclock: discouraged.
+ Choose this if you dual-boot with an OS which cannot handle UTC BIOS times correctly, like Windows (note
+ that recent Windows versions can use UTC, which is preferable).
- any other value will result in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization)
Default: empty
@@ -87,14 +87,14 @@ Default: empty
*DAEMON_LOCALE=*
- - If set to 'yes', use $LOCALE as the locale during daemon startup and during the boot process.
+ - If set to 'yes', use $LOCALE as the locale during daemon start-up and during the boot process.
- If set to 'no', the C locale is used.
Default: "yes"
*USECOLOR=*
-Use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
+Use ANSI color sequences in start-up messages
Default: "yes"
@@ -102,26 +102,26 @@ HARDWARE[[H]]
-------------
*MODULES=*
-Modules to load at boot-up. To blacklist modules, see "man modprobe.d". See also
-"man modules-load.d".
+Modules to load at boot-up. To blacklist modules, see 'man 5 modprobe.d'. See also
+'man 5 modules-load.d'.
Default: ().
*USEDMRAID=*
-Scan for FakeRAID (dmraid) Volumes at startup.
+Scan for FakeRAID (dmraid) volumes at start-up.
Default: "no"
*USEBTRFS=*
-Scan for BTRFS volumes at startup.
+Scan for Btrfs volumes at start-up.
Default: "no"
*USELVM=*
-Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM.
+Scan for LVM volume groups at start-up. This is required if you use LVM.
Default: "no"
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ The following settings help you setting up a wired network.
*interface=*
-Name of device. Use 'ip addr' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
+Name of device. Use `ip addr` or `ls /sys/class/net/` to see all available interfaces.
Default: empty
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Required for manual configuration, ignored for DHCP.
netmask=
gateway=
-The following options might be needed for advanced use-cases.
+The following options might be needed for advanced use cases.
*NETWORK_PERSIST=*
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Default: "no"
*NETWORKS=*
-This functionality is deprecated, please refer to the 'netcfg' documentation.
+This functionality is deprecated; please refer to 'man 8 netcfg'.
DAEMONS[[D]]
------------
@@ -213,10 +213,10 @@ Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
- prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
If you are sure nothing else touches your hardware clock (such as ntpd or
-a dual-boot), you might want to enable 'hwclock'. Note that this will only
+by dual-booting), you might want to enable 'hwclock'. Note that this will only
make a difference if the hwclock program has been calibrated correctly.
-If you use a network filesystem you should enable 'netfs'.
+If you use a network filesystem, you should enable 'netfs'.
Default: (syslog-ng network crond)
@@ -227,4 +227,4 @@ hostname(5), vconsole.conf(5), locale.conf(5), hwclock(8)
AUTHORS
-------
-Written by Dieter Plaetinck, Tom Gundersen and others.
+Written by Dieter Plaetinck, Tom Gundersen, and others.