Applied Bill Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2164 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

10 files changed, 47 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/appendixa/bootscripts-desc.xml b/appendixa/bootscripts-desc.xml
index 228ca79ea..6aaa3f42b 100644
--- a/appendixa/bootscripts-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/bootscripts-desc.xml
@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ systems).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>cleanfs</title>
 <para>The cleanfs script removes files that shouldn't be preserved between
-reboots, such as /var/run/*, /var/lock/*, it re-creates /var/run/utmp and
-removes the possible present /etc/nologin, /fastboot and /forcefsck
+reboots, such as /var/run/* and /var/lock/*. It re-creates /var/run/utmp and
+removes the possibly present /etc/nologin, /fastboot and /forcefsck
 files.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>functions</title>
-<para>The functions script contains shared functions among different
+<para>The functions script contains functions shared among different
 scripts such as error checking, status checking, etc.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>halt</title>
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ scripts such as error checking, status checking, etc.</para></sect4>
 network devices.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>loadkeys</title>
-<para>The loadkeys script loads the proper keymap table that matches your
-keyboard layout.</para></sect4>
+<para>The loadkeys script loads the keymap table you specified as proper for
+your keyboard layout.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>localnet</title>
 <para>The localnet script sets up the system's hostname and local loopback
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ or aren't network based.</para></sect4>
 <para>The mountproc script is used to mount the proc filesystem.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>network</title>
-<para>The network script sets up network interfaces (such as network cards)
+<para>The network script sets up network interfaces, such as network cards,
 and sets up the default gateway where applicable.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>rc</title>
-<para>The rc script is the master runlevel control script which is
+<para>The rc script is the master runlevel control script. It is
 responsible for running all the other scripts one-by-one in a specific
 sequence.</para></sect4>
 
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ the hardware clock isn't set to GMT time.</para></sect4>
 partitions.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>sysklogd</title>
-<para>The sysklogd script start and stops the system and kernel log
+<para>The sysklogd script starts and stops the system and kernel log
 daemons.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>template</title>
diff --git a/appendixa/make-desc.xml b/appendixa/make-desc.xml
index ba017caf8..12798845e 100644
--- a/appendixa/make-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/make-desc.xml
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
 
 <sect4><title>make</title>
-<para>make determines automatically which pieces of a large program need to be 
-recompiled, and issues the commands to recompile them.</para></sect4>
+<para>make determines, automatically, which pieces of a large program need to be 
+recompiled and issues the commands to recompile them.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>
 
diff --git a/appendixa/netkitbase-desc.xml b/appendixa/netkitbase-desc.xml
index a6d4f4215..44cf5489f 100644
--- a/appendixa/netkitbase-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/netkitbase-desc.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
 
 <sect4><title>inetd</title>
-<para>inetd is the mother of all daemons. It listens for connections, and 
+<para>inetd is the mother of all daemons. It listens for connections and 
 transfers the call to the appropriate daemon.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>ping</title>
diff --git a/appendixa/patch-desc.xml b/appendixa/patch-desc.xml
index 7bb3dec97..303ebb9f7 100644
--- a/appendixa/patch-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/patch-desc.xml
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@
 
 <sect4><title>patch</title>
 <para>The patch program modifies a file according to a patch file. A patch
-file usually is a list created by the diff program that contains
+file usually is a list, created by the diff program, that contains
 instructions on how an original file needs to be modified. Patch is used
 a lot for source code patches since it saves time and space. Imagine
 a package that is 1 MB in size. The next version of that package
 only has changes in two files of the first version. It can be shipped as an
-entirely new package of 1 MB or just as a patch file of 1 KB which will
+entirely new package of 1 MB or just as a patch file of 1 KB, which will
 update the first version to make it identical to the second version. So
 if the first version was downloaded already, a patch file avoids
 a second large download.</para></sect4>
diff --git a/appendixa/procps-desc.xml b/appendixa/procps-desc.xml
index 5c46faeab..a47d48f14 100644
--- a/appendixa/procps-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/procps-desc.xml
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ criteria.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>tload</title>
 <para>tload prints a graph of the current system load average to the 
-specified tty (or the tty of the tload process if 
-none is specified).</para></sect4>
+specified tty or, if none is specified, the tty of the tload 
+process.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>top</title>
 <para>top provides an ongoing look at processor activity 
@@ -46,11 +46,11 @@ in real time.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>vmstat</title>
 <para>vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, 
-traps, and cpu activity.</para></sect4>
+traps and cpu activity.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>w</title>
-<para>w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and 
-their processes.</para></sect4>
+<para>w displays information about the users, and their processes,
+currently on the machine.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>watch</title>
 <para>watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first 
diff --git a/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml b/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml
index 3ca19acfd..b42ba9d5e 100644
--- a/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ existing users.</para></sect4>
 <para>chsh changes the user login shell.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>dpasswd</title>
-<para>dpasswd adds, deletes, and updates dial-up passwords for 
+<para>dpasswd adds, deletes and updates dial-up passwords for 
 user login shells.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>expiry</title>
 <para>expiry checks and enforces a password expiration policy.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>faillog</title>
-<para>faillog formats the contents of the failure log,/var/log/faillog, and 
+<para>faillog formats the contents of the failure log, /var/log/faillog, and 
 maintains failure counts and limits.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>gpasswd</title>
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ group files.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>lastlog</title>
 <para>lastlog formats and prints the contents of the last login log, 
-/var/log/lastlog. The login-name, port, and last login time will be 
+/var/log/lastlog. The login-name, port and last login time will be 
 printed.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>login</title>
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ to a normal password file.</para></sect4>
 given command as member of the given group.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>useradd</title>
-<para>useradd creates a new user or update default new user 
+<para>useradd creates a new user or updates default new user 
 information.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>userdel</title>
diff --git a/appendixa/sysklogd-desc.xml b/appendixa/sysklogd-desc.xml
index 6525954b8..acde54e1f 100644
--- a/appendixa/sysklogd-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/sysklogd-desc.xml
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ messages.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>syslogd</title>
 <para>syslogd provides the kind of logging that many modern programs use. Every
-logged message contains at least a time and a hostname field, normally a 
-program name field, too, but that depends on how trusty the logging 
+logged message contains at least a time and a hostname field and, normally, a
+program name field, too. But that depends on how trusty the logging
 program is.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>
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>
diff --git a/appendixa/tar-desc.xml b/appendixa/tar-desc.xml
index 0b97ebfe3..dfa7c28ec 100644
--- a/appendixa/tar-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/tar-desc.xml
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
 
 <sect4><title>rmt</title>
-<para>rmt is a program used by the remote dump and restore programs in 
-manipulating a magnetic tape drive through an interprocess communication
+<para>rmt is a program used by the remote dump and restore programs to
+manipulate a magnetic tape drive through an interprocess communication
 connection.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>tar</title>
diff --git a/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml b/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml
index ba867d88c..264150d58 100644
--- a/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ driver.</para></sect4>
 messages from the kernel).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>elvtune</title>
-<para>elvtune allows to tune the I/O elevator per block device queue 
+<para>elvtune lets you tune the I/O elevator per block device queue 
 basis.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>fdformat</title>
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ command.</para></sect4>
 format (ascii, decimal, hexadecimal, octal).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>hwclock</title>
-<para>hwclock queries and sets the hardware clock (Also called the RTC or BIOS
+<para>hwclock queries and sets the hardware clock (also called the RTC or BIOS
 clock).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>ipcrm</title>
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ clock).</para></sect4>
 <para>ipcs provides information on IPC facilities.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>isosize</title>
-<para>isosize outputs the length of a iso9660 file system.</para></sect4>
+<para>isosize outputs the length of an iso9660 file system.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>line</title>
 <para>line copies one line (up to a newline) from standard input and writes it
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ to standard output.</para></sect4>
 partition.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>mkfs.bfs</title>
-<para>mkfs.bfs creates a SCO bfs file system on a device, usually a harddisk
+<para>mkfs.bfs creates an SCO bfs file system on a device, usually a harddisk
 partition.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>mkfs.cramfs</title>
@@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ harddisk partition.</para></sect4>
 time.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>mount</title>
-<para>mount mounts a filesystem from a device to a directory (mount 
-point).</para></sect4>
+<para>mount mounts, from many possible sources, filesystems or directories
+on a directory (mount point).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>namei</title>
 <para>namei follows a pathname until a terminal point is found.</para></sect4>
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ BASH or TCSH.</para></sect4>
 <para>raw is used to bind a Linux raw character device to a block device.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>rdev</title>
-<para>rdev queries and sets image root device, swap device, RAM disk size, or
+<para>rdev queries and sets image root device, swap device, RAM disk size or
 video mode.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>readprofile</title>
@@ -183,10 +183,10 @@ video mode.</para></sect4>
 root.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>script</title>
-<para>script makes typescript of terminal session.</para></sect4>
+<para>script makes a typescript of terminal session.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>setfdprm</title>
-<para>setfdprm sets user-provides floppy disk parameters.</para></sect4>
+<para>setfdprm sets user-provided floppy disk parameters.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>setsid</title>
 <para>setsid runs programs in a new session.</para></sect4>
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ root.</para></sect4>
 which indicates underlining for the terminal in use.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>umount</title>
-<para>umount unmounts a mounted filesystem.</para></sect4>
+<para>umount unmounts a mounted filesystem or directory.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>vidmode</title>
 <para>vidmode queries and sets the video mode.</para></sect4>
@@ -221,7 +221,8 @@ which indicates underlining for the terminal in use.</para></sect4>
 command.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>write</title>
-<para>write sends a message to another user.</para></sect4>
+<para>write sends a message to another user, if that user has writing 
+enabled (usually by using mesg).</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>