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author | Benno Schulenberg | 2013-06-08 20:10:41 +0200 |
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committer | Karel Zak | 2013-06-18 10:51:53 +0200 |
commit | 6afe9db4712c1181615601895229489dcf649760 (patch) | |
tree | d5040c054763dc38eec872ef864f0d59ed47b79b /term-utils | |
parent | pg.c: Add --help and --version (diff) | |
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agetty: fix a kill/erase error in man page and improve clarity
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'term-utils')
-rw-r--r-- | term-utils/agetty.8 | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/term-utils/agetty.8 b/term-utils/agetty.8 index eacd2de7e..ce6f3fbd3 100644 --- a/term-utils/agetty.8 +++ b/term-utils/agetty.8 @@ -229,26 +229,26 @@ no hostname at all will be shown. .TP \-\-long\-hostname By default the hostname is only printed until the first dot. With -this option enabled, the full qualified hostname by gethostname() -or if not found by getaddrinfo() is shown. +this option enabled, the fully qualified hostname by gethostname() +or (if not found) by getaddrinfo() is shown. .TP \-\-erase\-chars \fIstring\fP -This option specifies additional chars that should be interpreted as a -backspace (ignore previous char) when user specifies login name. The original -default has been \'#\', since util-linux 2.23 no additional erase chars are -enabled by default. +This option specifies additional characters that should be interpreted as a +backspace ("ignore the previous character") when the user types the login name. +The default additional \'erase\' has been \'#\', but since util-linux 2.23 +no additional erase characters are enabled by default. .TP \-\-kill\-chars \fIstring\fP -This option specifies additional chars that should be interpreted as a -kill (ignore all previous chars) when user specifies login name. The original -default has been \'@\', since util-linux 2.23 no additional erase chars are -enabled by default. +This option specifies additional characters that should be interpreted as a +kill ("ignore all previous characters") when the user types the login name. +The default additional \'kill\' has been \'@\', but since util-linux 2.23 +no additional kill characters are enabled by default. .TP \-\-version -Output version information and exit. +Display version information and exit. .TP \-\-help -Output help screen and exit. +Display help text and exit. .PP .SH EXAMPLES This section shows examples for the process field of an entry in the |