From e9dd9f9547350c7dc0473583b5c2228dc8f0ab76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jason St. John" <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:51:44 +0200
Subject: man: improve grammar and word formatting in numerous man pages

Use proper grammar, word usage, adjective hyphenation, commas,
capitalization, spelling, etc.

To improve readability, some run-on sentences or sentence fragments were
revised.

[zj: remove the space from 'file name', 'host name', and 'time zone'.]
---
 man/nss-myhostname.xml | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man/nss-myhostname.xml')

diff --git a/man/nss-myhostname.xml b/man/nss-myhostname.xml
index c0e2b828be..efbadac33f 100644
--- a/man/nss-myhostname.xml
+++ b/man/nss-myhostname.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 
         <refnamediv>
                 <refname>nss-myhostname</refname>
-                <refpurpose>Provide host name resolution for the locally
+                <refpurpose>Provide hostname resolution for the locally
                 configured system hostname.</refpurpose>
         </refnamediv>
 
@@ -58,17 +58,17 @@
 
                 <para><command>nss-myhostname</command> is a plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch
                 (NSS) functionality of the GNU C Library (<command>glibc</command>)
-                providing host name resolution for the locally configured system
+                providing hostname resolution for the locally configured system
                 hostname as returned by
                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gethostname</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
-                Various software relies on an always resolvable local host name. When
-                using dynamic hostnames this is usually achieved by patching
+                Various software relies on an always-resolvable local hostname. When
+                using dynamic hostnames, this is usually achieved by patching
                 <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> at the same time as changing the host
                 name. This however is not ideal since it requires a writable
                 <filename>/etc</filename> file system and is fragile because the file
                 might be edited by the administrator at the same time. <command>nss-myhostname</command>
-                simply returns all locally configure public IP addresses, or -- if none
-                are configured -- the IPv4 address 127.0.0.2 (which is on the local
+                simply returns all locally configured public IP addresses, or, if none
+                are configured, the IPv4 address 127.0.0.2 (which is on the local
                 loopback) and the IPv6 address ::1 (which is the local host) for
                 whatever system hostname is configured locally. Patching
                 <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> is thus no longer necessary.</para>
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ $ getent ahosts `hostname`
 127.0.0.2       RAW
                 </programlisting>
 
-                <para>In this case the local host name is <varname>omega</varname>.</para>
+                <para>In this case the local hostname is <varname>omega</varname>.</para>
 
         </refsect1>
 
-- 
cgit v1.2.1