svn commit: r41037 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users

Dru Lavigne dru at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 24 16:58:05 UTC 2013


Author: dru
Date: Sun Feb 24 16:58:04 2013
New Revision: 41037
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41037

Log:
  Minor rewording.
  
  Submitted by:  bjk, wblock
  Approved by:  gjb

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml	Sat Feb 23 14:50:24 2013	(r41036)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml	Sun Feb 24 16:58:04 2013	(r41037)
@@ -156,9 +156,9 @@
 
 	<listitem>
 	  <para>By default &os; does not force users to change their
-	    passwords periodically.  This can be enforced on a
-	    per-user basis, forcing some or all users to change their
-	    passwords after a certain amount of time has
+	    passwords periodically.  Password expiration can be
+	    enforced on a per-user basis, forcing some or all users to
+	    change their passwords after a certain amount of time has
 	    elapsed.</para>
 	</listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -683,9 +683,10 @@ passwd: done</screen>
       <secondary>quotas</secondary>
     </indexterm>
     <indexterm><primary>disk quotas</primary></indexterm>
-    <para>Disk quotas limit disk usage to users and provide a way to
-      quickly check that usage without calculating it every time.
-      Quotas are discussed in <link linkend="quotas"></link>.</para>
+    <para>Disk quotas limit the amount of disk space available to
+      users and provide a way to quickly check that usage without
+      calculating it every time.  Quotas are discussed in <link
+	linkend="quotas"></link>.</para>
 
     <para>The other resource limits include ways to limit the amount
       of CPU, memory, and other resources a user may consume.  These
@@ -705,7 +706,7 @@ passwd: done</screen>
       identifier and <replaceable>value</replaceable> is an arbitrary
       string which is processed accordingly depending on the
       <replaceable>name</replaceable>.  Setting up login classes and
-      capabilities is rather straight-forward and is also described in
+      capabilities is rather straightforward and is also described in
       &man.login.conf.5;.</para>
 
     <note>
@@ -825,8 +826,8 @@ passwd: done</screen>
 	  <para>The maximum amount of memory a process may request
 	    to be locked into main memory using &man.mlock.2;.  Some
 	    system-critical programs, such as &man.amd.8;, lock into
-	    main memory so that in the event of being swapped out,
-	    they do not contribute to disk thrashing.</para>
+	    main memory so that if the system begins to swap, they do
+	    not contribute to disk thrashing.</para>
 	</listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
@@ -852,7 +853,7 @@ passwd: done</screen>
 	  <indexterm><primary>limiting users</primary>
 	    <secondary>openfiles</secondary>
 	  </indexterm>
-	  <para>The maximum amount of files a process may have open.
+	  <para>The maximum number of files a process may have open.
 	    In &os;, files are used to represent sockets and IPC
 	    channels, so be careful not to set this too low.  The
 	    system-wide limit for this is defined by the


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