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| author | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-10-06 15:50:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-10-06 15:50:25 +0000 |
| commit | 6a9875daac5d3c5dd0c3623a7a5587947bb90147 (patch) | |
| tree | a1229c1f27aa707d0c08bf9643c091280f052d16 /appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml | |
| parent | 6b8e9e97de1965df7a820d90943385f2e06696d6 (diff) | |
Applied Bill Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2164 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml b/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml index d43f98e9d..77ab50913 100644 --- a/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ wall</para></sect3> <sect3><title>Descriptions</title> <sect4><title>halt</title> -<para>halt notes that the system is being brought down in the file -/var/log/wtmp, and then either tells the kernel to halt, reboot or +<para>halt notes, in the file /var/log/wtmp, that the system is being +brought down and then tells the kernel to either halt, reboot or poweroff the system. If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6, shutdown will be invoked instead (with the flag -h or -r).</para></sect4> @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ the flag -h or -r).</para></sect4> <sect4><title>init</title> <para>init is the parent of all processes. Its primary role is to create processes from a script stored in the file /etc/inittab. This -file usually has entries which cause init to spawn gettys on each line that -users can log in. It also controls autonomous processes required by any +file usually has entries which cause init to spawn gettys on each line from +which users can log in. It also controls autonomous processes required by any particular system.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>killall5</title> @@ -56,13 +56,13 @@ enabled in the kernel).</para></sect4> the computer.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>runlevel</title> -<para>runlevel reads the system utmp file (typically /var/run/utmp) to locate -the runlevel record, and then prints the previous and current system +<para>runlevel reads the system utmp file (usually /var/run/utmp), locates +the runlevel record and prints the previous and current system runlevel on its standard output, separated by a single space.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>shutdown</title> <para>shutdown brings the system down in a secure way. All logged-in users are -notified that the system is going down, and login is blocked.</para></sect4> +notified that the system is going down and login is blocked.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>sulogin</title> <para>sulogin is invoked by init when the system goes into single user mode @@ -72,14 +72,14 @@ execute sulogin when it is passed the -b flag from the boot loader <sect4><title>telinit</title> <para>telinit sends appropriate signals to init, telling it which runlevel to -change to.</para></sect4> +enter.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>utmpdump</title> <para>utmpdumps prints the content of a file (usually /var/run/utmp) on standard output in a user friendly format.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>wall</title> -<para>wall sends a message to everybody logged in with their mesg permission +<para>wall sends a message to logged in users that have their mesg permission set to yes.</para></sect4> </sect3> |