From 6afe9db4712c1181615601895229489dcf649760 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 20:10:41 +0200 Subject: agetty: fix a kill/erase error in man page and improve clarity Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg --- term-utils/agetty.8 | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'term-utils/agetty.8') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522