svn commit: r363598 - head/usr.sbin/nologin

[Rodney W. Grimes]

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> Hi!
> 
> On 7/27/20 6:41 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >> Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer)
> >> Date: Mon Jul 27 10:45:47 2020
> >> New Revision: 363598
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363598
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>    nologin.8: Improve wording
> > I disagree that this improves wording.  The norm of action for
> > "logging" in Unix is to "write to syslog", not "log to syslog".
> 
> Hmm, I agree, but here it is "log using syslog".

Please read syslog(3) it is rather consistent about using
"write to syslog".  The action of calling syslog(3) is to
"writes message to the system message logger."


> 
> Have you got any idea how to further improve this sentence?

No, but can we not degrade it?

> 
> >>    Reported by:	yuripv
> >>    Reviewed by:	bcr, yuripv
> >>    MFC after:	3 days
> >>    Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25814
> >>
> >> Modified:
> >>    head/usr.sbin/nologin/nologin.8
> >>
> >> Modified: head/usr.sbin/nologin/nologin.8
> >> ==============================================================================
> >> --- head/usr.sbin/nologin/nologin.8	Mon Jul 27 09:10:02 2020	(r363597)
> >> +++ head/usr.sbin/nologin/nologin.8	Mon Jul 27 10:45:47 2020	(r363598)
> >> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ have been disabled.
> >>   .Pp
> >>   When executed,
> >>   .Nm
> >> -first writes about the login attempt to
> >> +first logs about the login attempt using
> >>   .Xr syslog 3
> >>   and then displays a message that an account is not available.
> >>   .Pp
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Mateusz Piotrowski
> 
> 

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org