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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2011-03-05 12:56:34 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2011-03-05 12:56:34 +0000
commit1275466d50991b94b25f51b2a3487e63bdea1a96 (patch)
treed75d78135a003544133504e01a0c4806a49b2b5c /share/man/man8/rc.subr.8
parent32a223f18f9f32a9e8bee410dd84f10cad90f7ec (diff)
Minor polishing that was missed during the recent rc.subr(8) split:
* Avoid markup of "daemon" when not explicitly referring to the variable. * Improve some wording, remove one typo and one useless .Pp. Reminded by jmc@, ok jmc@ ajacoutot@
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8 b/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8
index 288c224e7a3..ca2590bf19c 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: rc.subr.8,v 1.8 2011/02/24 07:06:35 ajacoutot Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: rc.subr.8,v 1.9 2011/03/05 12:56:33 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Robert Nagy, Antoine Jacoutot, Ingo Schwarze
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 24 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 5 2011 $
.Dt RC.SUBR 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@
.Nm rc_cmd
.Ar action
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Pp
-Apart from a few notable exceptions, rc scripts must follow the following
+Apart from a few notable exceptions, rc scripts must follow this
naming policy:
.Pp
.Bl -enum -compact
@@ -54,7 +53,7 @@ have to be converted to
.Pp
Every script under
.Pa /etc/rc.d
-follows the following pattern:
+follows this pattern:
.Pp
.Bl -enum -compact
.It
@@ -176,18 +175,12 @@ without defining
.Va daemon
first.
.It Va daemon_flags
-Arguments to call
-.Va daemon
-with.
+Arguments to call the daemon with.
.It Va daemon_user
-User to run
-.Va daemon
-as, using
+User to run the daemon as, using
.Xr su 1 .
.It Va daemon_class
-Login class to run the
-.Va daemon
-with, using
+Login class to run the daemon with, using
.Xr su 1 .
This is a read only variable that gets set by
.Nm rc.subr
@@ -220,8 +213,7 @@ Can be set to
.Cm NO
in an
.Nm rc.d
-script to disable the reload action if the respective
-.Va daemon
+script to disable the reload action if the respective daemon
does not support the
.Dv SIGHUP
signal to reload its configuration.
@@ -229,8 +221,7 @@ The same is possible, but almost never useful, for other actions.
.It Va rcexec
Holds the full
.Xr su 1
-arguments used to run
-.Va daemon .
+arguments used to run the daemon.
Defaults to:
.Va su -l -c ${daemon_class} -s /bin/sh ${daemon_user} -c .
.El