docs/147812: Corrects English usage in NIS slave server setup in the Handbook (patch attached)

Simon Wright diver06 at gmx.net
Sat Jun 12 16:20:02 UTC 2010


>Number:         147812
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Corrects English usage in NIS slave server setup in the Handbook (patch attached)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 12 16:20:01 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Simon Wright
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p1 amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD vmserver04.home.wright.org 7.3-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p1 #3: Sun May 30 05:54:36 CEST 2010 root at vmserver04.home.wright.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

>Description:
Minor correction to the English usage in the NIS slave server setup paragraph relating to the reason for adding crontab entries to a slave.
>How-To-Repeat:
Visit the Handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nis.html 
>Fix:

Doc update, patch attached.	

--- network-nis-old.html	2010-06-12 17:22:58.000000000 +0200
+++ network-nis.html	2010-06-12 17:43:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 
 <i class="AUTHORGROUP"><span class="CONTRIB">Written by</span> Bill Swingle.</i> <i
 class="AUTHORGROUP"><span class="CONTRIB">Enhanced by</span> Eric Ogren and Udo
-Erdelhoff.</i> 
+Erdelhoff.</i>
 
 <div class="SECT2">
 <h2 class="SECT2"><a id="AEN37266" name="AEN37266">29.4.1 What Is It?</a></h2>
@@ -552,9 +552,9 @@
 </pre>
 
 <p>These two lines force the slave to sync its maps with the maps on the master server.
-Although these entries are not mandatory, since the master server attempts to ensure any
-changes to its NIS maps are communicated to its slaves and because password information
-is vital to systems depending on the server, it is a good idea to force the updates. This
+Although these entries are not mandatory since the master server attempts to ensure any
+changes to its NIS maps are communicated to its slaves, because password information
+is vital to systems depending on the server it is a good idea to force the updates. This
 is more important on busy networks where map updates might not always complete.</p>
 
 <p>Now, run the command <tt class="COMMAND">/etc/netstart</tt> on the slave server as
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@
 <h2 class="SECT2"><a id="NETWORK-NETGROUPS" name="NETWORK-NETGROUPS">29.4.7 Using
 Netgroups</a></h2>
 
-<i class="AUTHORGROUP"><span class="CONTRIB">Contributed by</span> Udo Erdelhoff.</i> 
+<i class="AUTHORGROUP"><span class="CONTRIB">Contributed by</span> Udo Erdelhoff.</i>
 
 <p>The method shown in the previous section works reasonably well if you need special
 rules for a very small number of users and/or machines. On larger networks, you <span
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