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+++ 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.