Various wording and formatting fixes. Nothing too contentnious, I think,
so I rolled these changes into one patch.
Since there is much common text in su.1 and runuser.1, I've combined
the changes to both pages into one patch, and, as far as possible,
ensured that changes to the common pieces of text match across the
two pages.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The wording "allow(s) to" is not grammatical English. Reword various
pages to use a more correct form such "can be use to" or "allows
the [noun] of".
Aklong the way, fix a few nearby wording errors in some pages.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
utmp and lastlog are referred to in the manual page, and thus deserve a
cross references in SEE ALSO.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
When readline is called to get user input, it is called without
a prompt argument. As a result, if the user does not enter anything
for a given field, then the next field is displayed on the same
line, yielding the following output:
$ chfn
Changing finger information for user.
Password:
Name []: Office []: Office Phone []: Home Phone []:
instead of the expected:
$ chfn
Changing finger information for user.
Password:
Full Name []:
Room Number []:
Work Phone []:
Home Phone []:
This patch restores the expected behavior by feeding readline with
a character to display as "prompt".
[kzak@redhat.com: - do the same change in chsh
- use ' ' rather than '\n' for non-readline code]
Signed-off-by: Damien Goutte-Gattat <dgouttegattat@incenp.org>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
* use 1 bit for context->quiet
* get_hushlogin_status() return -1 on error, make sure we do not
interpret it as "hush mode enabled"
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Most of this is pretty straightforward English language fix-ups
and formatting fix-ups, so I've rolled it into one patch.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
In several pages, there is a consistent wording problem: "another"
where "other" should be used. This wording problem can be
surprisingly confusing for native speakers, especially those
unaware that in some other languages, "another" and "other" can be
expressed with the same word.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
- use --with-vendordir= (rather than --enable) to be compatible with
another package stuuf
- add USE_VENDORDIR automake condition
- add vendordir to global AM_CPPFLAGS to avoid binary specific cflags
modifications
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
There is value in ensuring that manual page sections use consistently
named sections, as far as possible, and also that sections have a
consistent order within manual pages. This is one of a series of patches
to place manual page sections in a consistent order.
In this patch, we ensure that the NOTES, HISTORY, BUGS, and EXAMPLE
sections are always placed near the end of the page, just above
AUTHORS, COPYRIGHT, SEE ALSO, and AVAILABILITY.
One page is not fixed by this patch: term-utils/agetty.8. This page
is a mess of unusual section names, and probably requires an individual
edit.
Testing that no gross editing mistake (causing accidental loss or addition
of text) was performed as follows:
$ cat $(grep '\.SH' -l $(find . -name '*.[1-9]') |sort) | sort > a
[Apply patch]
$ cat $(grep '\.SH' -l $(find . -name '*.[1-9]') |sort) | sort > b
$ diff a b
$ echo $?
0
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
There is value in ensuring that manual page sections use consistently
named sections, as far as possible, and also that sections have a
consistent order within manual pages. This is one of a series of patches
to place manual page sections in a consistent order.
In this patch, we ensure that the AUTHORS, COPYRIGHT, SEE ALSO, and
AVAILABILITY sections are always placed at the end of the page.
Testing that no gross editing mistake (causing accidental loss or addition
of text) was performed as follows:
$ cat $(grep '\.SH' -l $(find . -name '*.[1-9]') |sort) | sort > a
[Apply patch]
$ cat $(grep '\.SH' -l $(find . -name '*.[1-9]') |sort) | sort > b
$ diff a b
$ echo $?
0
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The manual pages currently use a multitude of terms--"exit code",
"error code", "return code", "exit code", and so on--when what
is always meant is "exit status" (the POSIX term). This patch fixes
as many of these erroneous terms as I could find.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
There is quite some value (in terms of readability and user
expectations) if consistent names are used for the sections
within manual pages. This patch is one of a series to bring
about this consistency.
But, let's make sure that the section is consistently titled
across pages. Currently we have ENVIRONMENT (many) or ENVIRONMENT
VARIABLES (3). Let's standardize on ENVIRONMENT (which is also
what is suggested in man-pages(7)).
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
There is quite some value (in terms of readability and user
expectations) if consistent names are used for the sections
within manual pages. This patch is one of a series to bring
about this consistency.
In the Linux man-pages project, I long ago did away with the
AUTHOR(S) section, but I realize some projects like to keep this.
But, let's make sure that the section is consistently titled
across pages. Currently we have AUTHOR (47) or AUTHORS (41).
Let's standardize on the latter (which is also what is
suggested in man-pages(7)).
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Using double quotes in .SH lines containing multiple words is unneeded,
and in any case is not consistently done in the util-linux manual pages,
where double quotes are used in only around half of the cases.
(This usage was long ago elminated in the man-pages project, with
no ill effects reported to date.)
Remove these quotes, so that .SH lines are more uniform, in preparation
for some (more easily) scripted doiscovery of consistency problems in
(and possibly global fixes to) the manual pages.
Other than stripping the double quotes, this patch makes no changes to
the content of the manual pages.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The current default behavior is to print the first issue file/dir and
all alternative locations are used as a backup solution only. If something
is found than the rest is ignored. The --issue-file allow to overwrite
this default behavior, but currently it supports only one file/dir.
This patch extend --issue-file to support ':' separated list of paths
and *all* the files (if exist and no empty) in the list are printed.
agetty --issue-file=/etc/issue:/etc/issue.d:/run/issue:/run/issue.d:/usr/lib/issue:/usr/lib/issue.d
Addresses: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/1041
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
It seems that directories like /etc/motd.d are already used by PAM or
by another stuff. Let's keep it in admin/distro hands and do not
change the current default.
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
The current standard is to use directories to make it easy for
distributions to share resources. This patch also add /etc/motd.d
and /run/motd.d to the default MOTD_FILE=.
Addresses: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/10341
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
The wtmp file tends to rotate higher rate than lastlog, so use the later as
fallback in when wtmp tells nothing in LAST-LOGIN column.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Karel Zak
Thayne McCombs
leeceeksdee
Evgeny Vereshchagin
Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Yuri Chornoivan
Damien Goutte-Gattat
Toni Uhlig
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Rosen Penev
Sami Kerola