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misc/49855: sort a keyword in boot.cfg.5 correctly



>Number:         49855
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       one keyword's explanation in boot.cfg.5 is in the wrong place
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Apr 25 15:40:00 +0000 2015
>Originator:     dieter roelants
>Release:        NetBSD 7.99.12
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD simult.amelgem.be 7.99.12 NetBSD 7.99.12 (SIMULT) #108: Sat Apr 25 12:33:11 CEST 2015 dieter%simult.amelgem.be@localhost:/build/obj.amd64.current/sys/arch/amd64/compile/SIMULT amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
	The boot.cfg (5) man page describes all keywords alphabetically,
	except for rndseed, which was put last.
>How-To-Repeat:
	`man 5 boot.cfg`; scroll down a bit
>Fix:

Index: share/man/man5/boot.cfg.5
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/share/man/man5/boot.cfg.5,v
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -p -u -u -r1.26 boot.cfg.5
--- share/man/man5/boot.cfg.5	15 Apr 2013 22:46:52 -0000	1.26
+++ share/man/man5/boot.cfg.5	25 Apr 2015 10:41:57 -0000
@@ -131,6 +131,20 @@ normal boot prompt.
 In addition,
 .Dq Ic prompt
 can be used to drop to the normal boot prompt.
+.It Sy rndseed
+Takes the path to a random-seed file as written by the
+.Fl S
+flag to
+.Xr rndctl 8
+as an argument.
+This file is used to seed the kernel entropy pool
+.Xr rnd 9
+very early in kernel startup, so that high quality randomness is
+available to all kernel modules.
+This argument should be supplied
+before any
+.Dq Ic load
+commands that may load executable modules.
 .It Sy timeout
 If the value is greater than zero, this specifies the time in seconds
 that the boot loader will wait for the end-user to choose a menu item.
@@ -146,20 +160,6 @@ time limit for the user to choose an opt
 Passes a
 .Xr userconf 4
 command to the kernel at boot time.
-.It Sy rndseed
-Takes the path to a random-seed file as written by the
-.Fl S
-flag to
-.Xr rndctl 8
-as an argument.
-This file is used to seed the kernel entropy pool
-.Xr rnd 9
-very early in kernel startup, so that high quality randomness is
-available to all kernel modules.
-This argument should be supplied
-before any
-.Dq Ic load
-commands that may load executable modules.
 .El
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 Here is an example



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