Subject: misc/12966: hosts(5) has some layout and grammatical errors
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Charlie Allom <charlie@rubberduck.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/17/2001 17:17:19
>Number:         12966
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       hosts(5) has some layout and grammatical errors
>Confidential:   yes
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu May 17 00:17:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     
>Release:        1.5.1_BETA
>Organization:
 charlie@rubberduck.com    Melbourne, Australia
 http://rubberduck.com/    PGP preferred
 F848 3B10 D181 E5EC 84CD  9CA2 7686 6210 FB54 66D1
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD vulcanised.rubberduck.com 1.5.1_BETA NetBSD 1.5.1_BETA (VULCANISED) #0: Tue May 8 19:15:23 EST 2001 yeled@vulcanised.rubberduck.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/VULCANISED macppc


>Description:
	some grammaticl butchering in hosts(5)
>How-To-Repeat:
	`man hosts' :)
>Fix:

from David Pickworth <davidp@psy.uq.edu.au>

--- hosts.5.orig        Thu May 17 01:57:16 2001
+++ hosts.5     Thu May 17 02:01:28 2001
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm hosts
-file contains information regarding
-It can be used in conjunction with the DNS, and the
+file contains information regarding the known hosts on the
+network.  It can be used in conjunction with the DNS, and the
 .Tn NIS
 maps
 .Sq hosts.byaddr ,
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@
 as controlled by
 .Xr nsswitch.conf 5 .
 .Pp
-the known hosts on the network.
 For each host a single line should be present
 with the following information:
 .Bd -unfilled -offset indent
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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