Mistake in FreeBSD manual
Ceri Davies
ceri at submonkey.net
Mon Mar 20 11:39:38 UTC 2006
On 20/3/06 10:13, "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Grant Moritz <volunteer at avcon.org.au> wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>> In the FreeBSD manual
>> ([1]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-
>> inetd.html) under the section "25.2.5 Security" at the end of the
>> first paragraph there is an error in grammar.
>> "Some daemons, such as fingerd, may not be desired at all because they
>> information that may be useful to an attacker."
>> Doesn't make sense to me just thought I would pass along the
>> observation you guys.
> I think that an average english reader would not notice
> that, inserting the word "provide" subconciously.
That's what I did when I wrote it, when I proofread it, and again when I
read it above. Sorry, I must be mentally blind to it!
Ceri
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