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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-08-29 21:12:27 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-08-29 21:12:27 +0000
commitdb4ff0537a285137d22d610a8d229d30955181f3 (patch)
treea3aef28106e81149d2b46636acee273fb6dc7bf5 /sbin/init/init.8
parent79c215bbdf655d5e8b7291acc4eefac3ce2cb3b8 (diff)
man page repairs; aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/init/init.8')
-rw-r--r--sbin/init/init.828
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/init/init.8 b/sbin/init/init.8
index 3e461885748..f0b75564e89 100644
--- a/sbin/init/init.8
+++ b/sbin/init/init.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: init.8,v 1.8 1998/07/17 22:29:42 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: init.8,v 1.9 1998/08/29 21:11:08 deraadt Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: init.8,v 1.6 1995/03/18 14:56:31 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -55,14 +55,14 @@ It normally runs the automatic reboot sequence as described in
and if this succeeds, begins multi-user operation.
If the reboot scripts fail,
.Nm init
-commences single user operation by giving
+commences single-user operation by giving
the super-user a shell on the console.
The
.Nm init
program may be passed parameters
from the boot program to
prevent the system from going multi-user and to instead execute
-a single user shell without starting the normal daemons.
+a single-user shell without starting the normal daemons.
The system is then quiescent for maintenance work and may
later be made to go to multi-user by exiting the
single-user shell (with ^D).
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ causes
.Nm init
to run the
.Pa /etc/rc
-start up command file in fastboot mode (skipping disk checks).
+startup command file in fastboot mode (skipping disk checks).
.Pp
If the
.Nm console
@@ -80,14 +80,14 @@ entry in the
file is marked ``insecure'',
then
.Nm init
-will require that the superuser password be
+will require that the super-user password be
entered before the system will start a single-user shell.
The password check is skipped if the
.Nm console
is marked as ``secure''.
.Pp
The kernel runs with four different levels of security.
-Any superuser process can raise the security level, but only
+Any super-user process can raise the security level, but only
.Nm init
can lower it.
Security levels are defined as follows:
@@ -115,17 +115,17 @@ but also inhibits running
.Xr newfs 8
while the system is multi-user. Because the clock cannot
be set back in time, malicious users who have gained root
-priviledges are unable to change a file's ctime.
+privileges are unable to change a file's ctime.
.El
.Pp
-Normally, the system runs in level 0 mode while single user
-and in level 1 mode while multiuser.
-If the level 2 mode is desired while running multiuser,
+Normally, the system runs in level 0 mode while single-user
+and in level 1 mode while multi-user.
+If the level 2 mode is desired while running multi-user,
it can be set in the startup script
.Pa /etc/rc
using
.Xr sysctl 8 .
-If it is desired to run the system in level 0 mode while multiuser,
+If it is desired to run the system in level 0 mode while multi-user,
the administrator must build a kernel with ``option INSECURE''
in the config file.
.Pp
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ and allow the system to slowly die away, if it is sent a terminal stop
signal, i.e.
.Dq Li "kill \-s TSTP 1" .
A later hangup will resume full
-multi-user operations, or a terminate will start a single user shell.
+multi-user operations, or a terminate will start a single-user shell.
This hook is used by
.Xr reboot 8
and
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ System console device.
Terminal ports found in
.Xr ttys .
.It Pa /var/run/utmp
-Record of Current users on the system.
+Record of current users on the system.
.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
Record of all logins and logouts.
.It Pa /etc/ttys
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ System startup commands.
.Xr shutdown 8 ,
.Xr fbtab 5
.Sh HISTORY
-A
+An
.Nm
command appeared in
.At v6 .