svn commit: r41037 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users
Dru Lavigne
dru at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 24 16:58:05 UTC 2013
Author: dru
Date: Sun Feb 24 16:58:04 2013
New Revision: 41037
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41037
Log:
Minor rewording.
Submitted by: bjk, wblock
Approved by: gjb
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml Sat Feb 23 14:50:24 2013 (r41036)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml Sun Feb 24 16:58:04 2013 (r41037)
@@ -156,9 +156,9 @@
<listitem>
<para>By default &os; does not force users to change their
- passwords periodically. This can be enforced on a
- per-user basis, forcing some or all users to change their
- passwords after a certain amount of time has
+ passwords periodically. Password expiration can be
+ enforced on a per-user basis, forcing some or all users to
+ change their passwords after a certain amount of time has
elapsed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -683,9 +683,10 @@ passwd: done</screen>
<secondary>quotas</secondary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>disk quotas</primary></indexterm>
- <para>Disk quotas limit disk usage to users and provide a way to
- quickly check that usage without calculating it every time.
- Quotas are discussed in <link linkend="quotas"></link>.</para>
+ <para>Disk quotas limit the amount of disk space available to
+ users and provide a way to quickly check that usage without
+ calculating it every time. Quotas are discussed in <link
+ linkend="quotas"></link>.</para>
<para>The other resource limits include ways to limit the amount
of CPU, memory, and other resources a user may consume. These
@@ -705,7 +706,7 @@ passwd: done</screen>
identifier and <replaceable>value</replaceable> is an arbitrary
string which is processed accordingly depending on the
<replaceable>name</replaceable>. Setting up login classes and
- capabilities is rather straight-forward and is also described in
+ capabilities is rather straightforward and is also described in
&man.login.conf.5;.</para>
<note>
@@ -825,8 +826,8 @@ passwd: done</screen>
<para>The maximum amount of memory a process may request
to be locked into main memory using &man.mlock.2;. Some
system-critical programs, such as &man.amd.8;, lock into
- main memory so that in the event of being swapped out,
- they do not contribute to disk thrashing.</para>
+ main memory so that if the system begins to swap, they do
+ not contribute to disk thrashing.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -852,7 +853,7 @@ passwd: done</screen>
<indexterm><primary>limiting users</primary>
<secondary>openfiles</secondary>
</indexterm>
- <para>The maximum amount of files a process may have open.
+ <para>The maximum number of files a process may have open.
In &os;, files are used to represent sockets and IPC
channels, so be careful not to set this too low. The
system-wide limit for this is defined by the
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